Re: VSFTPD 421 Service not availabl

2010-10-02 Thread stan
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 23:37:40 +0100 Aaron Gray wrote: > I have installed a fresh version of F11, unfortunately I did not > install VSFTPD with it. > > On doing a "yum install vsftpd" it install fine but does not seem to > function. > > [r...@zzz vsftpd]# ftp localhost > Trying ::1... > ftp: conne

Re: VSFTPD 421 Service not availabl

2010-10-02 Thread stan
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:41:57 +0100 Aaron Gray wrote: > Its not iptables, thats exactly the same across the two machines. It's strange it isn't working. What responses do you get if you type ftp -v That should show you the flow from the client side and give you a hint about where it is failing

Re: Seperate audio outputs for fedora- is this limited by my soundcard or the number of outputs on my motherboard?

2010-10-02 Thread stan
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:21:01 -0700 suvayu ali wrote: > On 2 October 2010 12:04, stan wrote: > > I think there are some very high end audio cards that have more than > > one processing pipeline, but I have never owned one. > > I think the "very high end" comment

Re: a sound problem

2010-10-03 Thread stan
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:59:24 +0800 (CST) 猫行天下 wrote: > Hi,everyone, > > I'm not sure why this happens, but the problem is when I'm in > the GUI(Gnome),the sound works pretty good. And if I play a music and > change to the console, while Login into the system,the sound is also > works good. B

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-03 Thread stan
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:48:13 -0700 JD wrote: > No. I think this is an appropriate place for it simply because it is > for Fedora users. So JD, when you go into a library, do you expect to find all the books just stacked in heaps all over the place, with no rhyme or reason? Hey, this is a library

Re: a sound problem

2010-10-03 Thread stan
security issue by the pulseaudio devs and so they don't want to (won't) do it. It can be worked around by using pulseaudio in server mode, though it isn't foolproof from what I can understand from those discussions. > > i know the wrong description is wasting our time..so sorry

Re: Fedora 12, 13 /KDE freezing Desktop

2010-10-03 Thread stan
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:08:28 -0400 Jim wrote: > I have 4 different Fedora boxes at different locations with KDE > Desktops Freezing Applications or clicking on mouse for intervals of > 10-15 seconds at a time. Nothing shows up in System Monitor to > indicate why. > > Anyone have these problems

Re: Fedora 12, 13 /KDE freezing Desktop

2010-10-03 Thread stan
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:52:11 -0700 JD wrote: > By default: mlocate.cron > > #!/bin/sh > nodevs=$(< /proc/filesystems awk '$1 == "nodev" { print $2 }') > renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1 > ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1 > /usr/bin/updatedb -f "$nodevs" > > So, it is already set to low prio

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-11 Thread stan
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing > > wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the > > > colour of the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using > > > grub2 in F13? (By "console" I mean the "framebuffer-based" > > > console.  X isn't ru

Re: No Sound on F13 (Realtek ALC889 on board)

2010-10-12 Thread stan
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:09:15 +0900 Nakai wrote: > I have tried with Ubuntu 9.0.4 and Fedora 10. (Live CD) > but still no sound. > > It's strange because it had sound with F10 installed to HD on same > machine about one year ago. > > So I doubt hardware failure... > Everything you've shown ind

Re: No Sound on F13 (Realtek ALC889 on board)

2010-10-12 Thread stan
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:21:57 -0700 JD wrote: > FWIT, the packages are > pavucontrol-0.9.10-1.fc13.i686 Thanks for the correction. I wrote it from memory and thought I remembered the control being abbreviated. It really should have pulseaudio in the name of the package so it isn't so hard to f

Re: NEW to 'Fedora 13'

2010-10-15 Thread stan
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:23:12 -0700 (PDT) jeff breibart wrote: > Hello! > >     Just bought a used lap-top (-for our child) which has the 'Fedora > 13' OS installed. > (-the presence of LINUX was a positive influence in our decision to > buy this lap-top) > >    Unfortunately, my knowledge/famil

Re: Which package you would like every new Fedora user to see?

2010-10-16 Thread stan
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:48:28 +0200 Valent Turkovic wrote: > Audio and video codecs including flash are preinstalled. We are going > the path of Linux Mint to make user experience best as possible right > out of the box, and for not that means also including few non-open > components. As soon as t

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread stan
> Somewhat off topic, does atrpms play nice with rpmfusion nowadays? It > used to have a problem with livna, and most of livna is now > rpmfusion... > You can use the yum plugin priorities. That allows you to set priorities for all the repositories you use. yum-plugin-priorities I don't thin

Re: Fedora C14 beta on Magny-cours

2010-10-19 Thread stan
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:25:57 -0300 Victor Calvo wrote: > I tried to install FC 13 and also FC 14 on a mother board TYAN S8230 > motherboard + Opteron X8 equipped with a brand new SATA disk .The > darn FC14 keeps on reseting. > It passes a few initial steps but cannot load the vmlinux. Tyan > supp

Re: Wine, pulseaudio, Starcraft problems

2010-10-19 Thread stan
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:54:59 -0600 Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > Well, I was hopeful that it would work okay, given the existence of > the wine-pulseaudio package I use pulse by default for everything > else, but I'm fine with using alsa instead for the game. Do you have > any pointers about do

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:58:22 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > I read http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt > carefully; and in each of the following attempts, I made > use of the instructions in the README. I tried the rpms: > > broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch

Re: random crashes

2011-02-27 Thread stan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:08:58 +0100 Andras Simon wrote: > On 2/27/11, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > TO: OP > > > > If you think it's specifically a Fedora problem (I don't), I would > > install > > Me neither. It's just that I still think it's possible that it's not a > HW problem. I'm going to

Re: Do I have libbigloo* drivers linked incorrectly?

2011-02-27 Thread stan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:04:59 -0600 "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" wrote: > Lately every time I update my system I see umpteen cycles of messages > complaining about a group of files that are "not a symbolic link": > > /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbigloosrfi27_es-3.4a.so is not a symbolic > link /sbin/l

Re: Bug in liveusb-creator.exe(Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.4.exeworks for F14)

2011-02-28 Thread stan
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:15:52 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > Yes, instructions for creating a live CD from Windows cmd.exe > perhaps by invoking the stuff in live cd creator's tools/ > directory. (There are several Unix commands and tools that > have been ported to Windows.) The Cyg

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-01 Thread stan
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:53:41 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > You could install the development group, and do it all > > within the live CD environment, but that is a pretty big > > project also. And unless you put the result somewhere > > permanent, you will lose it when you shut

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-02 Thread stan
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:49:33 -0700 stan wrote: > Use > yum install development-group development-libs > I realized I made an error in this command. It should be yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs And as a further note, if you have problems with missing dependenc

Re: cmake 2.8.4 (f14 x86_64) :: errors at bootstraping

2011-03-06 Thread stan
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:54:06 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! Did anyone tried to compile the cmake 2.8.4 on fedora 14? > trying to bootstrap with or without the system libs i receive this: [snip] > can anyone help me with some suggestion? I too am running F14 x86_64. I downloaded the source

Re: [OT] cmake 2.8.4 (f14 x86_64) :: errors at bootstraping

2011-03-07 Thread stan
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:05:09 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > stan wrote: > > > > I have accumulated lots of devel packages over the > > years, though. > > I just found out that yum's --installroot is _not_ meant for > install

Re: fc14 upgrade fails, system now in partially-upgraded state...

2011-03-07 Thread stan
> On 03/07/2011 03:10 PM, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > I think this may be my next effort. I'll see if I can identify which > > packages may be causing a problem. > > > > Is there a way to find out the full 1240 list of packages it said > > initially needed to be updated? Couldn't I then use rpm to fo

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-08 Thread stan
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 03:53:21 -0200 Fernando Cassia wrote: > This is silly makes me waste time... wasting time is no good. I think the upgrade you are looking for is the attachment for the brain that lets the computer know exactly what you want. That's a ways off yet, but probably will happen

Re: tty rows colums

2011-03-08 Thread stan
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:07:54 +0800 xinyou yan wrote: > I use gnome environment . > > The xterm has 80 columns and 24 rows > > While I enter Ctrl+Alt+F2 to use a whole scream for some edits. > This tty has 180 columns and 56 rows. > > How can I resize it to 80 columns and 24 rows. > > Early

Re: selinux vbetool error

2011-03-09 Thread stan
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:53:48 -0500 Alex wrote: > eventually completing the upgrade, I'm left with one remaining selinux > error that I can't figure out: > > [ 10.017350] type=1400 audit(1299697430.359:4): avc: denied { > mmap_zero } for pid=664 comm="vbetool" > scontext=system_u:system_r:vbe

Re: Getting a USB driver added for a device ? (Hitec HPP-22, wine, USB, RC)

2011-03-11 Thread stan
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:18:59 -0700 Linuxguy123 wrote: > At this point I have been advised that the proper USB driver has not > been installed for the HPP-22 device. Who should I talk to to get > this done or get help to do it myself ? > usbmon does not indicate any activity whatsoever on the b

Re: JFS support in Fedora?

2011-03-12 Thread stan
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:46:24 -0200 Fernando Cassia wrote: > IBM has released one of the first updates to JFSUtils in two years > time. JFS file system development has been glaciar... but it seems to > continue. > > http://jfs.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jfs/jfsutils/NEWS?revision=1.33 > > I wond

Re: "Dummy Output" sound device for new user

2011-03-16 Thread stan
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:29:52 -0700 "Frederick N. Brier" wrote: > One user on a Fedora14 x86_64 install has sound. The Sound > Preferences on the Output tab shows an "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" > device. I created and switched to a new user. Sound Preferences > shows only a "Dummy Output" de

Re: Reinstall sound on fc14?

2011-03-17 Thread stan
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:52:13 -0400 Alex wrote: > Is it possible to just reinstall and have it reconfigure the sound > system? That seems a little drastic. > I'm not sure what the difference is between alsa and > pulseaudio, and I think there may be some kind of conflict there. I've > done all

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:52:38 +0800 GeeKer Wang wrote: > > I have tried three ways: > 1. configure && make > 2. ccmake && make > 3. rpmbuild --recompile OpenSceneGraph-2.8.3-3.fc14.src.rpm Try the following, which works for me to create installable packages. cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -bp Open

Re: Firewall rules to block unwanted protocolls on given ports

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:05:50 -0700 johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > Does somebody has an idea, that what kind of iptables/pf rule must i > use to achieve this?: > > i only want to allow these connections [on the output chain]: > > on port 53 output only allow udp - dns > on port 80 output only allow

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:35:10 -0700 stan wrote: > rpmbuild -bp OpenScreneGraph.spec Oops! This should be rpmbuild -bb OpenScreneGraph.spec The -bp flag just unpacks the source so it can be examined or patches can be created. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:42:20 -0700 JD wrote: > > The -bp flag just unpacks the source so it can be examined or > > patches can be created. > Well, actually, -bp is for "prep"ing the source tree for compilation. > -bp will APPLY the patches (if they exist and are called for in the > spec file), ra

Re: how to only allow tcp on dport 443 on the OUTPUT chain?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:35:41 -0800 erikmccaskey64 wrote: > If i want to block udp on dport 80 on the output chain, then is this > enough? i want to only allow tcp on it! iptables -P OUTPUT DROP > iptables -A OUTPUT -o $PUBIF --dport 80 -j ACCEPT > > > or i need this rule? > iptables -P OUTPUT D

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:02:15 -0700 Konstantin Svist wrote: > I've used the kernel compilation procedure from the wiki page [1] but > the sizes of the binaries are larger than the distro sizes > > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel I've never compared them because I customi

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:52:38 +0800 GeeKer Wang wrote: > I tried to compile OpenSceneGraph-2.8.3-3.fc14.rpm software, and > got a low efficient and large version of it. But the version from > fedora-repo works well. > eg. my version with frame rate < 10, while fedora-repo version with > frame

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:54:28 -0700 Konstantin Svist wrote: > By default, both production and debug versions are built using the > fedora method. At least that's the way the kernel .src package behaves Found the cause. And your observation above seems to be correct. There is a file in /usr/lib

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:57:30 -0700 JD wrote: > Very interesting. > I have been building all my kernels with SMP disabled. > To wit, Here are the relevant config options in my > .config file for 2.6.38 (Mainline kernel), which I am > now running: > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread stan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:57:01 -0400 Chris Tyler wrote: > The debug information should be automatically separated into a > -debuginfo package near the end of the build, leaving you with > stripped binaries. > > There are several causes of variations between the distribution builds > and what you g

Re: Yum crashed

2011-03-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:28:09 + Krosh Ivanov wrote: > I think my yum installation crashed, but I tried following some hints > given by some sites, nothing works. Error message is here: > http://paste.ideaslabs.com/show/n5Wfu6wqja The key part is File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/c

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:09:16 +0800 GeeKer Wang wrote: > Thanks, > I tried it as you said, > cd rpmbuild/SPEC > rpmbuild -bb OpenSceneGraph.spec > > the total size of this version is 2.7G, a little smaller than > previous-built version but much larger than fedora-repo version. > Maybe it's -g

Re: Yum crashed

2011-03-21 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:58:54 + Krosh Ivanov wrote: > Output of commands: http://paste.ideaslabs.com/show/Gz39dMdbOs. > Well, it doesn't matter the way I use yum, the error is the same. I > think I've changed nothing related to yum configuration or to > something important to it. The package '

Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

2011-03-21 Thread stan
Hi, Just thought I would make an observation about the direction of Fedora after reading some of the comments in the OT morons thread, that has morphed into grumbling about Gnome 3. I was looking at the list archives http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/ for another reason and I notice

Re: Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

2011-03-21 Thread stan
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:19:33 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/21/2011 10:16 AM, stan wrote: > > And it > > begs the question of*why* people might be deserting Fedora. > > No it doesn't; it *ASKS* the question. It doesn't ask the question. Asking 'Why mig

Re: Wine, pulseaudio, Starcraft problems

2010-10-20 Thread stan
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:27:22 -0600 Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > To follow up, I did manage to get wine to use alsa (it's important to > install the i686 packages as well as x86_64), but it's still running > very slowly for me. So I have sound in the game but still just a few > (< 5) frames per secon

Re: Multi-users access to audio (pulseaudio?)

2010-10-20 Thread stan
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:34:25 -0600 (MDT) S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to grant access to audio to certain users other > than the one currently login physically / on console. I tried to > add all those users to the group pulse-access, pulse, and audio, > but it does not

Re: No audio, video plays at 8x

2010-10-21 Thread stan
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:32:45 -0400 Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what happened, but just this afternoon, perhaps after the > most recent set of FC13 updates, I have no audio and video plays at > least at 8x normal speed. This includes videos from mplayer, audio > from Pandora (the Adobe Air

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-23 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:38:23 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a > machine running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system > becomes increasingly slow, in terms of desktop response. > > The symptoms appear like something is

Re: Python learning

2010-10-23 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:45:38 +0200 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > I have up to learn python language, but as far as I know - didn't saw > any IDE, or editor with directly supports it. I would like to ease my > learning curve, and I thought to makes easier to see the stucture, and > the code. Maybe later

Re: Need advice on performance troubleshooting

2010-10-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:54:56 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Just tried it, logged out and logged back in. Didn't go to runlevel > 3, X gets restarted with only logging out and in, AFAIK. You're probably right. I think of X as this huge complex beast that sits between the OS and me, and think of

Re: mp3 gstreamer

2010-10-25 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:59:46 -0400 Luan Pham wrote: > What package I should install to play *.mp3 format files? > Look here for the official explanation and some instructions: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia or here for a simple step by step tutorial: http://www.mjmwired.net/resourc

Re: Update failes

2010-10-25 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:49:32 +0100 (BST) Patrick Dupre wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, mike cloaked wrote: > > It is entirely up to you but the best advice I can offer is to > > listen to what the very experienced Fedora users suggest what you > > should and what you should not do! Ignoring the

Re: Update failes

2010-10-25 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:49:32 +0100 (BST) > Patrick Dupre wrote: > The story is: > I tried to update 1 system from fedora 10 to 13, it failed before > it even starts the update! > 1) I tried 3 times. > 2) I will have to do it one or 2 more times > 3) I already had a similar problem when I update t

Re: No audio, video plays at 8x

2010-10-26 Thread stan
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:27:48 -0400 Alex wrote: > Turns out somehow the configuration for the audio output changed from > my internal on-board sound card to the HDMI digital output on my video > card. Fixed now. Great! The devices are assigned in random order at boot unless you explicitly tell

Re: No audio, video plays at 8x

2010-10-27 Thread stan
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:04:28 -0400 Alex wrote: > When I try and run pavucontrol, it just reports "Connection Failed: > Connection refused". I had to install this program through yum; it > wasn't installed by default in FC13. Yeah, I don't think pavucontrol is part of the default install. I woul

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-30 Thread stan
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:29:26 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:28 AM, Mike Klinke wrote: > > > > Have you been using ImageMagick (convert, display) for image > > manipulation? It uses /tmp as a temporary location while processing > > images. > > > > Yes I use disp

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread stan
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:42:03 -0500 Brian Ericson wrote: > Has anyone else encountered this? Anyone know what to do to fix it? When I fresh installed F14, there were delays such as you mention on the gui with Gnome. I checked top and iotop to see what was holding up the works. And it turned o

Re: f14 gnome unusable

2010-11-03 Thread stan
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:43:35 -0500 > Brian Ericson wrote: > Thanks for the reply! If only... It's acting as though it's under > significant load, but top/iotop/etc. show a completely idle system. That sounds like it is internally spinning its wheels. It should show up in top though as CPU

Re: I have lost the ability to save music in MP3 format

2010-11-03 Thread stan
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:25:15 -0400 > Paul Otheim wrote: > Hello, > > I have been out of the loop with the latest news on Fedora and open > source for sometime. Maybe a month ago, I lost the ability to create > MP3's. I though initially it was just affecting Rhythmbox but Sound > Juicer also can

Re: Can't mount USB drive - new thread this time

2010-11-03 Thread stan
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:23:13 -0400 > "Jason E. High" wrote: > When I insert a USB drive in F14, it shows up in the Places listing > but a window pops up that says 'Can't mount drive. Not Authorized.' Sounds like a permissions problem. Have you got SELinux enabled? If you fire up SELinux trou

Re: Problems exporting directories from Fedora 8

2010-11-04 Thread stan
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:08:25 -0400 "Doll, Margaret Ann" wrote: > I am trying to export some of the directories from the Fedora system, > so that I can get the files backed up. I think you mean that these are separate systems rather than partitions, so I probably can't help much with this as I don

Re: Problems exporting directories from Fedora 8

2010-11-04 Thread stan
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:43:40 -0400 "Doll, Margaret Ann" wrote: > > The web searches all report the problems I am having, but I have > found no solutions. Sorry I gave no help. Here are a couple more avenues to pursue, both long shots but better than nothing. The first link is the fedora mailin

Re: Problems exporting directories from Fedora 8

2010-11-04 Thread stan
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:13:01 -0400 "Doll, Margaret Ann" wrote: > Thanks, Stan. I will try your suggestions. ... However, Fedora 8 uses rpcbind-0.1.4-11.fc8, and I have confirmed that denial requests are being entered into /var/log/messages when rpcbind receives a request from an

Re: Is pulseaudio required for audio playback and capture?

2010-11-04 Thread stan
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:16:28 -0500 Kevin Martin wrote: > The subject says it all. Is pulseaudio required for audio playback > and capture? > > I have a Toshiba Qosmio that has a built-in microphone that I can't > get to work and I'm about half convince my problem is pulseaudio > related. Short

Re: I have lost the ability to save music in MP3 format [SOLVED....sort of]

2010-11-04 Thread stan
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:56:18 -0400 Paul Otheim wrote: > I went into the ~/.gconf/system folder, since the problem was not > application specific it seemed like a good place to start. I don't have that folder in ~/.gconf on my system. Only apps and desktop. Both those folders have the %gconf.xm

Re: renaming files

2010-11-05 Thread stan
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:11:50 + arnaldo gomes wrote: > Just installed fedora 14 but when I try renaming a file it includes > the extension, unlike Fedora 11. > Is this normal ? Could you describe how you are renaming the file? That is, what application are you using? Is it the command line?

Re: Fedora14 install to partition from running system

2010-11-05 Thread stan
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:25:50 + Terry Barnaby wrote: > Is it possible to install Fedora14 onto a spare partition from DVD on > a running Fedora12 system ? > I have two separate 30G partitions on my systems to allow two Fedora > versions to be installed. I normally install a new Fedora onto the

Re: Failure of compiling mplayer

2010-11-07 Thread stan
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:06:24 +0900 > Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > The compilation and installation on my box with newly installed fc14 > seemed to produce corrupted mplayer. > The command line ( > mplayer file.video.name ) gave the following > message: > > Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied

Re: Irritating sound when playing flash

2010-11-08 Thread stan
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:13:48 -0700 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Vadgama Harsh wrote: > > > Am using fedora 14 64 bit. when i play some flash videos there is a > > irritating clicking lowpitched noise when videos play. any > > solutions? You tubevidoes seem to play perfectly without the sound. >

Re: Irritating sound when playing flash

2010-11-08 Thread stan
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:15:48 -0700 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > stan wrote: > > > I'm not living up to my full potential > > I'm sorry to hear that, but recognizing it is the first step to > recovery LOL > You've been there. ;-) -- users mailin

Re: Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:55:26 +0200 Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > > Well my guess is that i need to put the correct lines > in /etc/modules.conf aka /etc/modprobe.conf ( the allias char-major > 81 stuff ) but the file is gone > and i do not know the replacement . Can't help you with the card, but

Re: Preupgrade problem

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:05:11 -0600 (CST) "Steve Berg" wrote: > > > On 10/11/10 12:57, Steve Berg wrote: > >> If preupgrade is smart enough to know that limitation once the > >> upgrade starts, why isn't it smart enough to warn me about that > >> before it downloads and sets everything up? > The

Re: which system runs scripts when USB devices plugged in?

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:48:20 + John Austin wrote: > There must be a better way ! Maybe not. This list message seems to imply that this whole area is a mess. But I'm no expert, so maybe there is a better way this poster didn't know about. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning

Re: which system runs scripts when USB devices plugged in?

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:56:35 -0700 stan wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:48:20 + > John Austin wrote: > > > There must be a better way ! > > Maybe not. This list message seems to imply that this whole area is a > mess. But I'm no expert, so maybe ther

Fw: Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2

2010-11-10 Thread stan
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:09:38 +0200 From: Kostas Sfakiotakis To: stan Subject: Re: Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2 On 11/10/2010 09:22 PM, stan wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:55:26 +0200 Kostas Sfakiotakis > wrote: > > > > > Well my guess is t

Re: Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:30:40 -0700 stan wrote: > > so basically it seems that it has somehow detected the hardware but > since am unable watch tv > using tv tuner something is misconfigured . Check for error messages in /var/log/messages after you try to use it. Check for SEL

Re: kmod-nvidia kills my sound

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:34:18 -0800 Hugh Caley wrote: > Running Fedora 14 i686. If I only run the nouveau video driver, my > sound works fine. If, however, I install and run the commercial > nvidia driver via kmod-nvidia, my sound dies a few seconds after I > try to use it. It sounds for all t

Re: How do I change the desktop manager

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:00:03 -0600 John Nissley wrote: > I am running Fedora 14 and installed the KDE desktop on the initial > installation. I now want to try other desktops like open box and or > LXDE but can not seem to figure out how to switch to a different > desktop. I have installed th

Re: X11 vs text mode

2010-11-10 Thread stan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:37:23 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > How could explain this behavior and investigate it. > On the same machine, I have 2 fedora 13 installations with the same > kernel and the same package upgrade, but not the same installed > packages. On one system, there

Re: Another kernel panic after preupgrade

2010-11-11 Thread stan
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:16:53 +0100 oeko...@gmx.de wrote: > Dear list! > > I tried to preupgrade a Fedora 13 installation to Fedora 14 following > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade. The F13 installation was my > first Linux experience and therefore eventually a bit shakey. A > closed source

Re: Another kernel panic after preupgrade

2010-11-11 Thread stan
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:50:21 +0100 oeko...@gmx.de wrote: > The old F13 kernel, which are booting partly but failing with some > graphic card problems include root hd(0,0), also. If the old root was hd(0,0) then preupgrade should leave your root as hd(0,0). If you follow Joe's suggestion about

Re: Another kernel panic after preupgrade

2010-11-11 Thread stan
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:10:34 +0100 oeko...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > The old F13 kernel, which are booting partly but failing with some > > > graphic card problems include root hd(0,0), also. > > > > If the old root was hd(0,0) then preupgrade should leave your root > > as hd(0,0). > # mkdir sda1

Re: Another kernel panic after preupgrade

2010-11-11 Thread stan
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:55:05 +0100 oeko...@gmx.de wrote: > Does it make anything clear? What I notice is strange about your grub.conf is that you have no initrd in the default boot entry (the Fedora F14 kernel). This seems wrong, as the system will have no way of booting. And it doesn't exist

Re: Firefox on fc14 unable to watch mp4 video

2010-11-11 Thread stan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:07:21 +0900 Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > Hi, > I have fc14 with firefox able to watch all youtube videos but NOT > for mp4 in the following link > http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/javafx/nblogo-screencast.html > mplayer and flv are able to watch the downloaded file. > Any sugge

Re: Another kernel panic after preupgrade

2010-11-12 Thread stan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:10:27 +0100 oeko...@gmx.de wrote: > @stan Ok I've done that and inserted the line > "initrd /dracut_output" to grub.conf. But there is *no* difference > during boot (kernel panic etc.). You used the wrong file on the initrd line. You need to use

Re: Another kernel panic after preupgrade

2010-11-12 Thread stan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:10:27 +0100 oeko...@gmx.de wrote: > All I want is to resume the upgrade. default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

2010-11-12 Thread stan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:04:30 + John Pilkington wrote: > My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully > updated until near EOL. Later I added a second disk and f12, and > recently I used preupgrade for f12-to-f13. That went well, and I > decided to try f10-to-f14.

Re: OT: vexing hw issue

2010-11-12 Thread stan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:41:19 -0800 Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Dave Stevens > wrote: > > > I want to make a new Fedora box so I used an existing case and put > > into it a > > new ASUS motherboard and a dual core low power CPU (an AM2+) and 1 > > gig of RAM > > (512x2) and

Re: Online source code browser

2010-11-14 Thread stan
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:17:02 -0800 JD wrote: > Is there an online source code browser for Fedora Packages? I've never heard of such a thing, and it would be a big project. I hope someone knows of one, it would be convenient. As far as I'm aware, the way to do this is to create a build tree in

Re: Sound doesn't work after upgrade from F13 to F14.

2010-11-14 Thread stan
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:07:12 -0600 Terry Letsche wrote: > Hi. > > I had a working F13 system on my Aspire Laptop. I upgraded to F14 off > the DVD. > > If I boot up and use a F13 kernel, everything is fine. If I boot with > the F14 kernel, no sound. It's possible there is a bug in the alsa inte

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600 "Ryan O'Hara" wrote: > Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from > dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no > longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dmesg end > up being written to the console. S

Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48

2010-11-17 Thread stan
I compiled a custom kernel in F14 using the Fedora source RPM, and created a custom initramfs for it using dracut. It boots, and X tries to load nouveau, but it fails and falls back to VESA. Here is the pertinent section from Xorg.0.log while it was booting. 44.002] (II) NOUVEAU driver [44.

Re: Building mplayer problems

2010-11-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:30:39 -0800 JD wrote: > I tried to build mplayer from source rpm. > mplayer-1.0-0.117.20100703svn.fc13.src.rpm > > The build seems to die at the last step of linking all > the objects to produce the binary mplayer. > The failure is: > > /usr/bin/ld: osdep/getch2.o: undefi

Fw: Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48

2010-11-17 Thread stan
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:57:32 -0700 From: stan To: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: Nouveau won't load with custom kernel 2.6.35.6-48 On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:32:16 +0100 Harald Hoyer wrote: > Remove any umask call from /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/99base/in

Re: Online source code browser

2010-11-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:30:22 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > stan wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:17:02 -0800 > > JD wrote: > > > >> Is there an online source code browser for Fedora Packages? > > > > I've never heard of such a thing, and it would

Re: Progressively Advancing Video Regressions

2010-11-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:35:44 -0500 (EST) Philip Vetter wrote: > Any ideas why I might be experiencing a progressive degradation of > Red Hat/Fedora's out-of-the-box support for multiple monitors, and > what I can do to get things working again? Just some thoughts from my observations over time.

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:56:04 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > stan wrote: > > #Fix console loglevel > > if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then > >/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL > > else > >/bin/dmesg -n 3 > > fi > > /bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:

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