Driver for Epson Photo Printer

2020-05-25 Thread S.Bob
All; I just ordered this printer:  Epson SureColor P900 17" Photo Printer Any thoughts on where I can get a driver for it to print large photos? Or even the driver for it's predecessor the P800? Thanks in advance -- `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just

Captcha's are out of control

2020-05-15 Thread S.Bob
Recently practically every website I visit makes me fill out a captcha, and to make it worse they all seem busted, I click all the trains and get a "try again", click all the buses "try again" usually I get into the site after 4 or 5 attempts if I havent already given up... Anyone else seeing

Run firefox across ssh?

2020-04-30 Thread S.Bob
All; I seem to remember way back in the day we used to ssh to a server, set our local display on that connection and then run a web browser FROM the ssh target but display the web browser on the source machine. I think we used to do this: ssh -Y target_machine export DISPLAY=:0 $ firefox

New bugzilla install - httpd error - Possibly OT

2020-04-17 Thread S.Bob
All; Apologies if this is OT: I'm setting up a new VM with Bugzilla. I've done the install of prerequisites and installed bugzilla in /var/www/html/bugzilla on a CentOS 7 64bit OS. I've installed PostgreSQL 11, created the bug user, added the following to the localconfig file $db_driver

odd screen behavior during screen saver / idle

2020-04-16 Thread S.Bob
All; I have a new Lenovo P73 laptop, have had it for about 2 weeks so It's the latest model / hardware specs are below: I've noticed every once in awhile, very inconsistently I return to the laptop, move the mouse to unlock the screen saver and find that the main laptop screen is all scrun

dnf Nothing to do but "Software Updates" GUI showing updates

2020-04-09 Thread S.Bob
All; I had a situation where a dnf update showed nothing to do but the "Software Updates" GUI had updates listed. Even did a "dnf clean all" and dnf still showed "Nothing to do". Clicked on the Software Updates GUI to install them and it did...  Why did dnf not see them? Thanks in advance

Re: NVIDIA Problem

2020-03-31 Thread S.Bob
Try this: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA On 3/31/20 9:22 PM, t_pol wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:54:25 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:25 PM t_pol wrote: Hi list, I've decided to switch from nouveau to Nvidia drivers. How did you install the nvidia drivers? D

New Laptop - Fedora compatibility

2020-03-30 Thread S.Bob
Hi All; I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad P73 with the following specs; Just curious if anyone sees any compatibility red flags that I missed: DIMM Memory     64GB(32+32) DDR4 2666 SoDIMM Display     17.3FHD IPS AG 300N Fingerprint Reader     Fingerprint Reader Graphics     Quadro P620 4G G5 1

Re: New Laptop - Graphics Card choices - suggestions?

2020-03-26 Thread S.Bob
unfortunately no... I guess I'll grab the Quattro P620 and see how it goes with the rpmfusion akmod-nvidia drivers On 3/26/20 11:12 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:15 AM S.Bob <mailto:s...@quadratum-braccas.com>> wrote: All; I've found that my c

New Laptop - Graphics Card choices - suggestions?

2020-03-26 Thread S.Bob
All; I've found that my current laptop in no way supports a 3rd monitor. So I am going to upgrade to a Lenovo P73 Mobile Workstation, the graphic card options are: NVIDIA® Quadro® P620 4GB NVIDIA® Quadro® T2000 4GB NVIDIA® Quadro® RTX3000 6GB Do these cards work well with Linux / Fedora

Linux USB monitor? Or an HDMI Splitter - looking for options for a second external monitor

2020-03-25 Thread S.Bob
All; I recently updated my laptop to this: ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705FD (https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-VivoBook-Pro-17-N705FD/) Unfortunately the usb-c port on this laptop does not support a monitor. It does have an HDMI port so I can add a second monitor but I want 2 external monitors

Re: Kid filter?

2020-01-16 Thread S.Bob
We use a spare server as a firewall, put untangle on it, works great On 1/16/20 1:01 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/16/2020 12:46 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora? The only thing I can think of offhan

Re: ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - Fedora 31 - usb-c port cannot drive a second/third monitor

2020-01-06 Thread S.Bob
On 1/6/20 8:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/5/20 2:19 PM, S.Bob wrote: The HDMI port drives a second monitor fine but the USB-C port will not. I can plug an external drive into the USB-C port and it mounts it fine, however I would like to drive an additional monitor with it. Generally

Re: ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - Fedora 31 - usb-c port cannot drive a second/third monitor

2020-01-06 Thread S.Bob
On 1/6/20 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/6/20 12:14 PM, S.Bob wrote: On 1/6/20 2:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/5/20 2:19 PM, S.Bob wrote: When I plug an external monitor into the USB-C port I usually see something like this via dmesg: Is this a USB display device or is it a thunderbolt

Thunderbird and MS Office365?

2020-01-06 Thread S.Bob
All; I have a new gig, the client runs office365 (ugh). I did the new email account in thunderbird, used "outlook.office365.com" as the incoming IMAP server and I can receive emails but not send. I used another account for sending (SMTP), since "outlook.office365.com" did not work but now

Re: ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - Fedora 31 - usb-c port cannot drive a second/third monitor

2020-01-06 Thread S.Bob
I sent too much info, seems like it may get kicked  (held by moderator) See my abbreviated replies below On 1/6/20 2:29 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/5/20 2:19 PM, S.Bob wrote: ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook, 17.3" FHD Display, Intel Core i7-8565U Upto 4.60GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD + 1T

ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - Fedora 31 - usb-c port cannot drive a second/third monitor

2020-01-05 Thread S.Bob
Hi; I bought this laptop over Christmas: ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook, 17.3" FHD Display, Intel Core i7-8565U Upto 4.60GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, HDMI, Card Reader, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Windows 10 Pro And I installed Fedora 31 on it. The HDMI port drives

Re: ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - boots to setup screen every time

2019-12-07 Thread S.Bob
On 12/7/19 12:15 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-07 14:45, S.Bob wrote: I've managed to install Fedora 31 on a new ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook. I've run a full dnf update. Every time I boot it boots to the setup screen (the one you see at first boot), then the mouse goes a

ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - boots to setup screen every time

2019-12-06 Thread S.Bob
All; I've managed to install Fedora 31 on a new ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook. I've run a full dnf update. Every time I boot it boots to the setup screen (the one you see at first boot), then the mouse goes away and it hangs for like 2 minutes. Then it goes to the login screen and the mo

ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook - cannot boot from USB

2019-12-06 Thread S.Bob
All; I just bought a new ASUS VivoBook Pro N705FD Notebook, the bios does not seem to allow booting from USB, disables fastboot and secureboot, there is still no USB Boot option, or even a CSM option. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks ___ user

New fedora 31 install hangs on shutdown

2019-11-25 Thread S.Bob
Hi all; I've just installed Fedora 31, on a thinkpad P51s Every time I shutdown it hangs with the following text and never powers off. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Thanks in advance. Nov 25 08:07:21 F31host kernel: [ cut here ] Nov 25 08:07:21 F31host kerne