Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani
I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine)
In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster
is working fine
In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora
doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig...
Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but
fine on a router/firewall.
Tnx
Antonio
8 years, 12 months
What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But
it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I
create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required?
JB
10 years, 11 months
oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis
Dear List,
I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video
conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and
Windows.
Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo
for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow
video conferencing with Fedora.
Thanks much
--
Greg Ennis
PoMec Corporation
www.PoMec.net
12 years, 1 month
Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing
I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It
originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
and then as root ran
shred -vz /dev/sdd
The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding"
about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default
number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days.
The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing
the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs
would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running
something like:
shred -vz /dev/sdd1
shred -vz /dev/sdd2
shred -vz /dev/sdd3
shred -vz /dev/sdd4
in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure?
Thanks
Dean
12 years, 4 months
Wireless adaptor DWL G-122 E1 /Fedora14 &Intel pentium(r)dual 3.00Ghz
by Vicenç Meĺendez
Dear users members,
I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
adaptors with no results.
Any help is welcome.
Kind regards
Vicenc Melendez
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Dear users members,
I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
adaptors with no results.
12 years, 10 months
X server in F14 horribly slow
by JD
After upgrading to F14, switching from one workspace to another is
excruciatingly slow!!
I am a gnome user.
Can this be attributed to Gnome or to the X server
or to the ATI Radeon driver?
12 years, 11 months
Optimising transmission
by Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone,
Lately I am noticing that despite reasonably low network activity, my
network access speeds go down whenever transmission is seeding many
torrents even if the upload bandwidth usage has been limited to
30Kbps. Pausing some of the seeding torrents usually resolves the
issue. I also found that often the upload rate transmission actually
uses is much higher (~50Kbps) than the set limit of 30Kbps. Is the
extra bandwidth required to negotiate with peers or other related
tasks? Does anyone have any pointers on how I can optimise
transmission so that it doesn't slow down my internet?
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
13 years
ecryptfs and password
by ssc1478
Hi,
I'm new to Fedora - been using Ubuntu for years. I just installed
Fedora 14 to my laptop and selected to encrypt /home.
When I boot, I have to enter the password for the encrypted directory.
Did I set it up wrong? I didn't expect to have to enter the password
at boot but instead thought the login password would be enough.
Thanks!
Phil
13 years
fed 15 beta + gnome 3 works nice, but ...
by Alexander Volovics
I posted the following mail to gnome-list(a)gnome.org.
The person who replied suggested that some of my items where
'theming' issues and as such the responsibility of the distro.
Can somebody 'in the know' at Fedora comment.
Exploring Gnome 3 under Fedora 15 beta.
So far: very nice to work with, great usability, but it could do
with some more configurability options.
(I am making the following remarks under the proviso that
I do not know if the standard (upstream) Gnome 3 is
included in Fedora 15 beta and wat Fedora has contributed
to the mix).
Are there any plans to increase desktop configurability in Gnome 3.
For example:
- I would like to be able to change the color of the top bar
The lid of my laptop is a shiny black and the addition of the
black colored top bar gives the desktop an even more funereal
appearance (and makes the bar hard to see/read).
- I would like to be able to REMOVE icons from applications
overviews under 'Applications' in the 'Activities overview'.
First I would like to remove ALL icons from the 'All' category.
* This overview is not really necessary because the same
icons are included under the other categories 'System Tools',
'Accessories', 'Graphics', etc.
* Furthermore given the absurd and unhandy 16:9 laptop screens you
have to scroll to see them all so having all icons available does
not really save time/work.
* Finding a particular icon among this plethora of icons is hardly
easy.
* Given the large size and the sometimes brash colors and
non-uniform design of the icons makes this desktop full of
large blobs not very aesthetically pleasing.
Second I would like to 'prune' the icons listed under the categories
retaining only the icons of the apps I use regularly (possibly
putting some of these 'pruned' icons in some 'Other' category).
- I would like to change the 'top bar' to an 'under bar' and have the
notifications pop up at the top (and why do pop ups and notifications
need to have a black background).
Personally I find these 'wishes' very reasonable and not detracting
from the design and usability of Gnome 3.
PS Who designs/creates the icons/icon themes.
I find the icons (too) big, brash, glaring and sometimes downright
ugly with no consideration for the overall effect. (for example the
'Games' icons).
It would be much nicer if they were created with an overall effect
in mind using compatible colors and forms (say a sleek blue/silver
theme, uniformly applied).
PS If configuration options as specified above or comparable are
planned for updates or Gnome 3.1 then I would be even more
happy with Gnome 3. If not, is it possible to put forward things
like the above as 'suggestions' for the design team and what is
the best possible place for this.
NB I can not and do not code myself.
Alexander
13 years
