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FedUp
by Phil Dobbin 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi, all. I've been away for some weeks & am now back so I'm looking at possibilities for upgrading 17 -> 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around eight to ten weeks. After the initial problems with FedUp, I read last night over on Bugzilla about its progress & the latest testing (which looks like it's going to go stable next week) is looking pretty solid. So the question is, is everybody been happy with the upgrade process via FedUp lately? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc

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Disability relief
by Beartooth 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful. Now I have machines running Fedora (17 & 18) and Puppy (5.0) -- and even with eyes on two panels I have an awful time spotting the mouse cursor. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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keyboard
by Patrick Dupre 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello, I am using a french alternative keyboard, but the right CRTL key is not working. I would like that it does the same thing than the left CRTL. in the layout this key apears as Level5 S How can I configure this keyboard? Thank. -- ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ || email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale || Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 || Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann || 59140 Dunkerque, France ======================================================================

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RE:Disability relief
by Alan Gagne 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

> I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does > help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where > it lurks? I have not read this entire thread so maybe I am too late to the game. If you are still looking at how to turn on the bulls-eye around the mouse pointer in gnome 3 it comes with gnome tweak tool. Alan

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What is Fedora 18 acpi_osi default? Or, seeking consistent power management.
by Noah Cutler 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Have been working out some kinks with recently acquired Dell M4700 Precision workstation. Out of the box everything just works (impressive compared to Fedora 14), except for Nvidia K1000M chip which insists on max power mode (heat) in multi-head setup (Linus gave them the finger; I'd prefer that they shut up...my laptop fans). So I took a risk and flashed the vBios, underclocking the chip significantly. Fantastic success, machine is absolutely quiet now, can run all day under light load and fans never go on, awesome stuff...with one caveat: for some reason after a suspend/resume power management goes awry and the Nvidia chip heats up, triggering dreaded fan-on-off cycle over & over & over (not as bad as before the vBIOS mod, but highly annoying regardless). The only way to get out of the heat loop is to restart X or restart the machine, and then light load quiet until next suspend/resume. Looking through /var/log I see that my kernel boot flag pcie_aspm=force is picked up, but later is rejected: PCIe ASPM is forcibly enabled > [0.609409] pci_root PNP0A08:00: ACPI _OSC support notification failed, > disabling PCIe ASPM > [1.613536] pci 0000:00:01.0: ASPM: Could not configure common clock (this > is the Nvidia chip, BTW) > [1.619912] ACPI _OSC control for PCIe not granted, disabling ASPM > Thought maybe there's a buggy DSDT at play, so decompiled existing dsdt and fixed the lone error and handful of warnings. Reran grub with modified dsdt.aml and restarted. Same deal, ASPM seems to be somewhat broken no matter what I do. So, how does Fedora identify itself to underlying firmware? Assume acpi_osi is Linux. I added that and "Windows 2012" as test kernel params, but neither appeared to do anything particularly useful. Can't underclock the Nvidia chip much more, so am hoping to find a way to get reliable power management post-resume from suspend as something is going off the rails at this time and not on system start/login. Thanks for ideas.

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RE:getting back from a black screen
by Alan Gagne 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

> On 04/08/2013 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >/ > />/ [harry at srv-rhsoft <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users>:~]$ lspci | grep -i graphic > / > AHA! Two ways to do it. How Unix! And let's add a twist to find out your drivers. [dw-agagne ~]# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1251 (rev a1) then using the bus:slot.func returned from previous command. dw-agagne ~]# lspci -s 01:00.0 -k 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1251 (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 204a Kernel driver in use: nouveau Alan

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presto
by Henk Breimer 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

starting fc18 presto-plugin has disappeared I would like to get yum out of this mode. Can't find a conf switch or trick to do that in man or google. Is this another choice removed from "Linux,the world of choice"? Or can I get a hint from here? Thanks, Henk

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Online backup providers
by Joseph L. Casale 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Anyone have any experience with jungledisk? They offer a Linux client and have pretty cheap rates for large volumes of data. We are retiring a private colocated backup and hoping to migrate to a commercial online solution. Of the few that support Linux, this one looks pretty decent at first glance. Thanks, jlc

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Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.
by Dan Thurman 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space. I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which allowed me to specify the /boot and / software destination having two partitions wiped out by newly reformatting them while installing. In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to manually modify and/or define the software destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for over 30 minutes of waiting. I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because this might mess up the partition table and screw the entire disk. I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set the locale, but not allowed to change the date, time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out, even though I was able to do this on the time/date menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda. So, what can I do at this point?

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F18: Gnome-user-share
by antonio montagnani 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Did anybody succeed to have Gnome-user-share working?? It was working on F17, now I cannot share any folder, actually I do not see any shared machine on Network. Any hint?? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F18(Spherical Cow) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.campingmonterosa.com

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