Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-06-24 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Update > > I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD.  The > booting problem is even worse now.   It used to take 2-6 tries to get my > laptop to boot.  Now it takes about 10. > > The SMART tests from the original 160 GB dri

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Mats wrote: > Hi, > I want to have (at least) two linux-system (no windows) on the same hd. > If I make two partitions for the first (/ and swap) and then the same > with the other one. Is that ok? All detailed explanation I've seen is > about installing windows an

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JD wrote: > > Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky. > I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt > as to what the smartd is reporting as if the are recent > errors. > At this point I will try to see if it is still > under warranty and have i

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:57 PM, JD wrote: > Is there a way to tell smart daemon to ignore the bad sector list > that comes from the manufacturer? > smartd keep reporting: > messages:Jun 19 16:16:39 localhost smartd[1378]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], > 128 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > mes

Re: Hibernate and resume

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Eric Tanguy wrote: > > I just installed fedora 13 and hibernate and resume does not work > whereas it did work fine just yesterday in fedora 12 up to date. How can > i try to find where the problem come from ? > The machine hibernate fine but when resuming the scre

Re: Gthumb in F13

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Langfelder
> Hmm, that sounds a bit snide. No one has actually filed bug reports about > those issues, so I'm not sure how crucial they are. But that's a side > issue... I don't consider such omissions bugs, I thought they may have been deliberate design decisions. By crucial I of course meant crucial for me

Gthumb in F13

2010-06-07 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, I just upgraded from F11 to F13. Upgrade went smoothly although the video with KMS still doesn't work. But I'd like to ask about gthumb - in F11 I was able to associate my custom scripts to hot keys that greatly speeded up editing of my photos. Also, there was a Properties window (openable

Re: Desktop doesn't wake up from suspend

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using FC13 x86_64 with all updates on an MSI MS-7025 motherboard > with a "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+". I've configured power > management in the BIOS to put the system to sleep in ten minutes, and > left it disabled in fedora. It go

[SOLVED] Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: > > Someone or something, possibly you, used the "mail" (or "mailx") > command to send an email to "y...@emailaddress.com", with the subject > "Photos".  The address appears to be a default that should be filled in > with a real address.  This w

Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
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Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
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Re: Linux C++ compiler

2010-01-24 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Matt Smith wrote: > using the gcc-c++ compiler can someone provide a simple 3 or 4 step example > as to how i use the compiler (in the terminal) to compile a program i wrote > and saved in a gedit file?  thanks. > g++ -o executable program.cc to execute: ./exe

Re: is suspend broken?

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > If I might offer one other thought, even with modeset, I believe changing to a > text console and suspending from there will work to resume and to change back > to > X later. Someone showed me that as the only way their laptop worked right