Thunderbird message list fonts rendering
by Marco Maccaferri
Hi,
I noticed a weird behaviour with the fonts rendering in Thunderbird's
message list. Initially the text is bold well readable, then after
clicking on a row or moving the selection with the arrows, the font
rendering changes, like it becames "double bold". Changing folder makes
the rendering correct again, for a while, then it becames double bold again.
I noticed it since installing Thunderbird 8, with the previous version
it was working correctly, however I'm not sure who is the responsible,
it could be some other package updated between the two versions, so I'm
asking if someone out there noticed the same behaviour and found a
solution or at least know the cause.
I'm using Thunderbird 8 from Remi Collet repository on Fedora 14 x86_64.
The fonts should be the default, however I'm using freetype-freeworld
from RPM Fusion instead of the default package. I'm using a nvidia card
with nouveau drivers. Everything is updated as of today.
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Marco.
12 years, 4 months
"Re: Not able to install nvidia drivers"...
by Linda McLeod
Seems to be a lot of that drivers grief in Linux, in a few
manufacturer's machines..? I doubt it's anything to do with Fedora..
It's probably faulty mother board designs, being designed exclusively
for Windows OS's, by robots...
Off the top, maybe the cure is for RedHat and all the major distro's, to
build and sell CD's of thousands of drivers, complete with all the
available mix'n match installation options, given that the computer
world's hardware is forever changing by the minute..?
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12 years, 4 months
Not able to install nvidia drivers
by Lawrence E Graves
I am still not able to install my nvidia drivers and I am not able to
communicate in technical terms therefore I was sending pictures of my
screen and pictures of my folders so those who were helping me would
have something to work with. Yesterday I received at least 10 refusals
of information sent.
Will somebody be so kind as to tell me or show me how to send the
necessary information so that I can find resolve in this matter. This
has been going on since the release of Fedora 16 and there has been not
fix for this problem.
If somebody has the ability to remotely attach themselves to my laptop
and see the problem, it would be greatly appreciated.
12 years, 4 months
Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users
by R. G. Newbury
On 12/05/2011 10:47 PM, Lawrence Graves<lgraves95(a)gmail.com>
> On 12/05/2011 01:32 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> > On 12/04/2011 09:44 PM, Lawrence Graves<lgraves95(a)gmail.com>
>>> >> On 12/04/2011 07:44 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> >
>> > 1 Add rdblacklist=nouveau to kernel grub line (done)
< big snip>
>> > 18 Reboot to check.
> After doing all the above from 1-18, it is still doing the same thing
> and gave me the same screen as when I first start this journey.
This brings to mind the Holmes Corrollary to Murphy's Laws: "Any law of
chemistry or physics to the contrary notwithstanding, if it happened, it
must be possible".
This is very weird.
Can you at least report that some of the steps worked???
Did the reboot at step 4 work? (The vesa driver only step).
Did you at least see the nvidia driver loaded at step 8?
Did startx get you to the graphical desktop in step 9?
I didn't closely follow the beginning of the thread. Could you repeat
what hardware you are using, and confirm the distro level (F15 I think)
and kernel. I am interested in confirming the video chipset and the
wireless chipset, since *something* weird is going on, involving those...
Geoff
12 years, 4 months
Recomend a colour laser printer
by Steve Searle
After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer
I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver
for it.
Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer
that works well with Fedora 16 x64? Let me know what you have if it
works well.
Thanks
Steve
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22:27:23 up 1 day, 11:05, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
12 years, 4 months
K3B burning problem
by david walcroft
I can not burn an ISO,there are no error messages,it recognizes a medium
and completes it's md5sum and stops.It also cannot format and erase.This
is on an FC16 i686 install.
Any ideas.
david
12 years, 4 months
Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2
by Misha Shnurapet
03.12.2011, 13:48, "Sam Varshavchik" <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com>:
> It's not that stuff has merely changed. It's that the stuff has changed,
> major parts of existing functionality were removed without having any
> functional replacements
There is no arguing that the new GNOME 3 is a significant change. But what you had with GNOME 2 was a result of about a decade of development. You want the same user experience, the same functionality today while it takes months to port all the stuff that you may not even know is to stay in GNOME. I wonder, when the GNOME 2 came out, was it something largely accepted.
> and every time someone points this out, they're
> told that they're too stupid to know what's good for them, and this is The
> Better Way.
I think you're exaggerating. Noone from the GNOME project could have actually told you that.
> Gnome 3 came without any kind of a sensors CPU widget.
GNOME 3 is much more extensible than any other previous version of GNOME, it is made to receive many kinds of extensions AND IT WILL.
04.12.2011, 03:56, "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen(a)tmr.com>:
> And scrapping all your old computers because they don't have magic video
> cards for visual cruft is not in the cards.
Old hardware receives the classic user experience in the form of fallback mode. But if you want the exact GNOME 2 with no option to compromise, the attitude you may receive may simply become your payback.
04.12.2011, 00:26, "Scott Doty" <scott(a)ponzo.net>:
> ...and I daresay any such _Linux_ distribution won't go very far, when
> its fearless leader has such a low opinion of _Linus_.
I absolutely undrestand that you like Linus. But don't you forget that Linus is a long time KDE user, and that's a different view on user interface and usability. We love GNOME for being GNOME unless switch DE easily and stop complaining. Knowing that Linus likes to troll both developers and users from time to time, it's funny to see the adherents of ye olde GNOME coming up with the quotes to support their point of view, especially when those are rather positive.
04.12.2011, 04:04, "Marko Vojinovic" <vvmarko(a)gmail.com>:
> It takes a certain personality profile to be able to
> use Fedora successfully. Most notably the ability to embrace new technologies,
> the ability to put up with occasional rough edges, and the ability to handle
> steep learning curves.
That is, Fedora is the future now.
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Email: shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, IRC: misha on freenode
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12 years, 4 months
The Linus view of GNOME 3.2
by Ed Greshko
I'm a long time KDE user and survivor of the move to KDE 4.
Thought some of you may be interested in the view point of Linus....
"Hey, with gnome-tweak-tool and the dock extension, gnome-3.2 is
starting to look almost usable.
Now I just hope those things become part of the standard gnome shell
setup and made available in the regular "system config" thing rather
than hidden off. Sure, make them default to off if you want that "clean
default", but make them easy to find and part of the standard install.
Or would that be too close to "Ok, we admit we were wong" and thus not
politically acceptable?"
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/WTLyn7dqYoR
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completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless
12 years, 4 months
NFS Mounting oddity...
by Arthur Dent
Hello all,
I have just upgraded my desktop to F16 from F14 (I skipped F15 because the
live distro did not seem able to run gnome 3 on - now it does
apparently!).
I did a clean install (but with the existing /home partition) and copied
accross some config files (see below).
Now, although F16 works OK I notice it takes a veeeerrry looooong time to
boot. A little investigation led me to this:
[root@localhost ~]# systemd-analyze blame
60374ms mnt-NFSmark.mount
60369ms mnt-datastore.mount
60368ms mnt-stuff.mount
3819ms mdmonitor-takeover.service
....
Now this machine connects to a server running F15 on my home network
(192.168.2.2). This is the /etc/exports on that machine:
cat /etc/exports
/home/mark
192.168.2.4(rw,async,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
/mnt/tempstore
192.168.2.4(rw,async,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
/mnt/datastore
192.168.2.4(rw,async,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
/mnt/f11
192.168.2.4(rw,async,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
The NFS drives on the F16 desktop PC (192.168.2.4) are mounted by /etc/fstab:
192.168.2.2:/home/mark /mnt/NFSmark nfs rw 0 0
192.168.2.2:/mnt/tempstore/ /mnt/stuff nfs rw 0 0
192.168.2.2:/mnt/datastore/ /mnt/datastore nfs rw 0 0
This was copied from the previous F14 install where it worked fine and
there were no such delays during boot.
Why does it now take so long?
How do I troubleshoot further, or - better yet - fix it?
Thanks in advance...
Mark
12 years, 4 months
3w-9xxx f14->f15 breakage
by Kevin H. Hobbs
I just updated (with yum) our backup server from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15.
This server has a 3ware 9550SX-8LP RAID card.
When I boot with the new kernel-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 the machine
complains that it can not find the root device by id and drops to a
dracut shell.
It then prints out warnings about the RAID card over and over in a slow
(20s or so) loop where the RAID card is reset once per loop.
I rebooted with the old kernel-2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64 and Fedora
comes right up.
The RAID controller has the newest firmware FE9X 3.08.00.029
The RAID controller has no schedule limiting when it can do a verify and
it has been doing one about once a day. I've restarted the machine
several times to track down this problem and so it has always been
trying a verify when it booted the new kernel.
Does anybody have any ideas?
12 years, 4 months
