Fun and games with sound
by Anne Wilson
A few days ago I installed a Creative SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 box - a USB device
that allows you to use good speakers from your laptop. At first I had no
success at all, but following the steps at
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds got
me started. This is where the fun and games begins.
When I look at System Settings > Phonon, the number of devices that are listed
varies enormously. I have seen about 10 on one occasion. Today there are 3,
one of which is greyed out. I have no idea what causes the devices to be seen
on some occasions but not on others. FWIW, the 5.1 system tops the list, the
laptop's internal speakers are next, then the greyed out one is another
configuration of the 5.1 system.
Then there's sound output from applications. On the occasion that all the
devices were listed I had good sound from front and rear, left and right, no
center and no bass. Today, from a CD + VLC I have good sterio sound from rear
L and R - nothing from the other speakers. Amarok simply outputs through the
center speaker. Clementine plays through the laptop's speakers.
I'm rather at a loss with this so any ideas you might have would be very
welcome.
Anne
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Shipping a dedicated backup solution on the KDE live CD?
by Kevin Kofler
Hi,
on IRC, we have been discussing lately whether we should add a dedicated
backup application to our live image (we probably should), and which one(s).
I have collected some thoughts on the following wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Backup_Solution
In short, we need to collect the common use cases and requirements (and also
check which of them, if any, are already covered by e.g. Dolphin or Ark),
and then evaluate how well the existing backup applications cover them.
(Writing an entirely new application is not really in the scope of this
discussion, it'd be a long-term task in any case. But this discussion MIGHT
also be the starting point for such a project.)
I have started by collecting some features I would like to see, but some of
those might not be really needed (at least for most users), and there may be
more important ones I have forgotten. (I'd like to know about any additional
features people would like to see.) My list is just the output of the
brainstorming I did, it is by no means intended to be final or binding.
See the wiki page for details.
If you have any feedback, you can:
* reply to this mail on this mailing list,
* use the discussion (Talk) page attached to the wiki page,
* edit the wiki directly and/or
* come to discuss this on IRC in the #fedora-kde channel on Freenode.
We would appreciate any user feedback on this.
Kevin Kofler
13 years, 1 month
Ghost (flash?) advertisements on the desktop.
by linux guy
I get ghost images in applications on certain areas of my desktop after
I open a website with an advertisement.
The advertisements appear to be flash based.
After a while the ghosts disappear and aren't a problem any more in the
session. When I start a new session I get a ghost and it hangs around
for a while and then disappears. I am not sure what causes it to
disappear.
I am running a fully up to date F14 installation.
kdelibs.i686
6:4.6.1-0.2.fc14
@kde-testing
akmod-nvidia.i686
1:260.19.36-1.fc14
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i686
1:260.19.36-1.fc14
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
flash-plugin.i386
10.2.152.27-release
@adobe-linux-i386
I have not searched Bugzilla for information on this situation. There
was an article on www.linuxhomepage.com that spoke of a similar issue,
but I cannot find it anymore.
Any and all advice for handling this issue is appreciated.
Thanks.
13 years, 1 month
/var/log/kdm.log
by Tomas Straupis
Hello
I have a bigish /var/log/kdm.log file (272M).
As far as I understand this log file is created by KDE
(login(display?) manager)?
Is it there by default and if so, shouldn't some kde package drop a
file to /etc/logrotate.d/ to take care of the size of this log file?
Should I go to bugzilla?
(yum whatprovides /etc/logrotate.d/kdm* returns nothing, and looking
through results of yum whatprovides /etc/logrotate.d/* does not reveal
a potential kdm.log cleaner)
P.S. f14, kde4.5.5.
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13 years, 1 month
kmail from kde-4.6.1 cannot access kwallet or mysql error
by Peter G.
When I start kmail, kwallet opens, but I am asked for the passwords for all of
the stored pop3 servers anyway, then after entering them (even though they are
already in kwallet), a new window opens stating that akonadi is not running as
root and that there are errors in the mysql log (I cannot find that log:
/var/log/mysqld.log is completely empty) and when I then click that window
closed, kmail also closes, with the result that I am unable to download/read my
emails.
13 years, 1 month
lost service menus after update
by Dj YB
Hello,I have updated my system recently and found out that service menus
entries I have added manually using the Menu Editor are lost.
where can those be found in order to back them up?
Thanks in advance,
YB.
13 years, 1 month
Problem with Panel and Application Icons
by Eli Wapniarski
Hi
Recently updated to 4.6.1. As usual, a great job packaging :)
Now, when I log into KDE, the icons on the panel seem to be spread out evenly
across the entire panel as opposed to sitting snuggly next to each other. Has
anyone else noticed this behavior.
Thanks
Eli
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13 years, 1 month
Re: fyi, kde-redhat repos now support f15
by Laurent Rineau
Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 18:06:05, Laurent Rineau a écrit :
> Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 16:49:00, Rolf Offermanns a écrit :
> > On 03/03/2011 04:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > I'm a little baffled, I checked the physical contents of
> > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/14/
> > > vs.
> > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/15/
> > > and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
> > >
> > > the repoview data seems consistent as well,
> > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/14/i386/testing/repoview/
> > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/14/x86_64/testing/repovie
> > > w/
> > >
> > > And, it seemed to upgrade and work properly on my own f14/x86_64 box.
> > >
> > > so, I'm at a loss here.
> >
> > Hmm... I did a "yum clean all" (did that multiple times before today)
> > and now "yum update" seems to work fine again.
>
> I did yum clean all several time but I still get fc15 packages!
>
> $ sudo yum list qt.x86_64
> Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, presto, refresh-packagekit,
> security Installed Packages
> qt.x86_64 1:4.7.2-1.fc14
> @kde-testing Available Packages
> qt.x86_64 1:4.7.2-1.fc15
> kde-testing
Now qt-4.7.2-1.fc15 and all fc15 packages have disappeared (from my F14
repos), and I have been able to update.
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