flash plugin sound
by Mark Haney
My daughter told me over the weekend that there was no sound from
flash-enabled websites for the last couple of weeks on her Fedora 9
system. (My middle daughter told me the same).
I thought it was a pulseaudio problem, but sound works everywhere else.
Has there been an update or something that's caused this problem? It
was working beautifully until then.
(I wish I had more information, but there's nothing in syslog, and I
haven't done updates in that time.
--
Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar
Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
15 years, 6 months
VDQ : machine names??
by Beartooth
I know it's a Very Dumb Question; I just can't find a general
answer that works.
I want to stop calling all the machines on my LAN
localhost.localdomain, and give them distinctive names. I have found two
or three ways of doing so; but they don't stick.
The only way that really works, for me at least, is to think of
it (and be ready) while doing a fresh install. When anaconda asks me
whether to use dhcp, I can click on manual, type in a name, click back to
using dhcp, and that name lasts.
I'm not even sure now whether it's mere logging out and back in,
or just actual reboots that do it, but in a location subject to longer
power failures than the UPSs I can afford will ride out, I get enough
reboots, too (alas!).
One other way that I've tried is to use system-config-network,
and edit the configuration of eth0; but that seems to be little more than
a pacifier. I want something that shows up in the prompts, and that I can
use in ssh and scp, without having to look up IP numbers on the router
all the time -- especially since not all LAN machines are on one floor.
Clue, please? Pretty please?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years, 6 months
Pulseaudio... again. How to restart it?
by Fernando Apesteguía
Hi,
I'm having some issues with Pulseaudio (well, I have sound only half
of the times I boot my system...)
These are the synthoms:
mplayer file1.avi
....
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
....
I tried with
$ pulseaudio -k
E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.
I can't find the pulseaudio process. What's its name? Can I kill it if
it doesn't kill itself?
Thanks in advance.
15 years, 6 months
Creating a common folder for all users
by Steve Repo
I have a f9 system at home and it is used by me, wife and kids.
Sometimes we want to share files docs, pictures and stuff. Here are my plans,
1. mkdir /fileshare
2. create "share" group
3. add all users this group
4. chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare
5. chown -R root:share /fileshare
6. for each user, rm -rf /home/<user>/Public
7. for each user, ln -s /fileshare /home/<user>/Public
Whatever they copy to their Public directory, it will be visible by all.
Will this work? Is there a better idea?
Thanks,
Steve
15 years, 6 months
Followup: Reverting from KDE4 to KDE3
by Eric
OK... I made a copy of my VMware F9 virtual machine, so I could screw
it up to my heart's content and still be able to restore what I had.
Then I went in and said "yum groupremove "KDE Software Development""
and let that run to completion. It left kdebase in place and removed
everything else, so I said "yum remove kdebase" and that took care of
removing all of KDE (or at least I hope so...).
So, if I want to install KDE3, what do I do?
On http://www.kde.org/download/ under "KDE 3 Series", then under
Fedora, it says "KDE 3.5.10 has been pushed as an update for Fedora 8
and 9. The Fedora 8 update includes all of KDE 3.5.10, the Fedora 9
update only the applications which were shipped as KDE 3 versions,
not KDE 4 versions.".
So, does that mean I download all of the files under
"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7808" (most,
perhaps all, of which appear to be RPMs), install them all with rpm,
then download everything under
"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7780" and
install that over what I installed before?
Or, is there hidden away somewhere a complete archive of KDE 3.5.10
specifically for F9?
I know... "Just try it and see what happens"... I could do that but
I'd rather see if any of you all can offer some insight first.
15 years, 6 months
External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?
by linux guy
I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA
external hard drive.
Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ?
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:40:05 EDT
2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep sat
sata_sil24 16069 0
libata 131937 3 ata_piix,sata_sil24,ahci
The reason I ask is because I expected to be able to plug it in and do an
fdisk /dev/sdc and set up a new partition. (My laptop has 2 internal hard
drives, sda and sdb, so sdc should be the external eSATA drive, right ?)
When fdisk failed, I resorted to hwbrowser. It stalled/crashed.
I repeated the experiment after a reboot with the drive powered up, ie not
hotplugged anymore, with the same results.
What am I missing ?
Thanks
15 years, 6 months
Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat is out of the office.
by Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat
I will be out of the office starting 09/30/2008 and will not return until
10/08/2008.
In this moment I encountered unreachable, please contact:
1.- Erickson Santander -esantand(a)cl.ibm.com
15 years, 6 months
OT ? Computing nirvana... new HP hdx laptop, F8 and dolphin. :)
by linux guy
Sorry if this is off topic, but I thought that I would share my recent
computing happiness with the Linux community. I suspect that some people
might find it inspiring and/or informative.
My laptop died a while back so I bought a new HP hdx9494 on the weekend.
For those not familiar with the HP hdx line, its a high end desktop
replacement machine with a 20.1" LCD, 2 hard drive bays, an Intel Core 2 Duo
T8100 processor (can be upgraded to an X9000...), 4GB RAM, a Blu Ray/ Dual
layer DVD drive, a full sized keyboard, a fingerprint reader, a TV tuner
with remote control, a great sound system, complete with a subwoofer and a
host of other goodies.
If you guessed that the hdx is heavy, you are right. 16 pounds or so. A
lot of people want a small light laptop. I want a desktop replacement and I
want it to have a large, bright display. It would be nice if the hdx was 8
pounds instead of 16, but given that I don't have to carry a 20 inch
widescreen with my laptop anymore, I am pretty happy. My last laptop was an
HP zd7000 with a 17" Ultra Brightview monitor. While many people thought
that machine was great due to its large, bright display, the hdx9494 blows
it away in just about every dimension. No comparison.
This hdx line also has an eSATA port to connect to an external SATA and run
it at full SATA speeds, in sharp contrast to connecting an external drive
via USB. I've found the hdx battery life to be surprisingly good... more
than 2 hours while web browsing via a WiFi connection. That might sound bad
to someone used to 5 hours from their palmtop, but its pretty good for a
fast desktop replacement with a big bright display.
FWIW, I paid $1600 for my hdx. HP seems to have discontinued these
machines. I don't think there are many left to buy.
The hdr9494 comes with a single 5400 RPM 320GB SATA drive. I wanted more
storage space and a faster hard drive for the OS, so I added a 7200 RPM
Seagate 160 GB hard drive as the primary drive. 480 GB of storage in a
laptop ! I'm in heaven. I plan to use a dedicated external SATA drive for
backup purposes... I'd hate to lose 400 GB of data by dropping my laptop or
having it stolen.
As we all know, hardware is only half the computing equation. The hdx
comes equipped with a 64 bit version of Vista. I powered it up when I got
home and spent the next 30 minutes watching it go through its startup
process. Then I played with it for about an hour. It runs pretty fast on
the hdx, but there was no way that I was going to keep it installed. I had
XP installed (dual boot) on my last laptop. I ended up using it about twice
a year... not enough to warrant the precious hard drive space it took up.
If I come to the conclusion that I need Windows on my hdx, I'll install XP
on it. Nevertheless, I made the Vista recovery disks before I uninstalled
it. It took about 2 hours to make 3 single sided DVDs. Sad.
With that complete, I installed the 32 bit version of F8 from the DVD. The
first thing I noticed is that the wireless card (Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965AGN
with Bluetooth) worked automatically during the first boot up ! This is
the first time that I have installed Linux on a computer (since RH8 days)
that a wireless card worked without either building ndiswrapper or setting
up the livna repository and downloading a kernel module. With my wireless
connection working, I ran yum update. About 480 packages got upgraded.
I then enabled the livna repository and installed the nvidia kernel module
and dependencies and wala, I had 1680x1050 on my desktop, all without
editing the xorg.config file. That too was a first for me. Until now I
always had to muck around with xorg.config to get the video to work
properly. Linux is progressing ! Many thanks to those in developer land
that made this a reality.
With the wireless card and nvidia video working, I then went about copying
my data from my old laptop hard drive to the hdx by installing it in a USB
IDE hard drive enclosure.
What a joy it is to be running F8 again. I've been running F9 since early
July and I have to say that my desktop and computer in general was terribly
disorganized due to my dislike of using the KDE 4.x desktop. I'm not saying
this as a knock against the developers. In fact, I think that KDE4 is
going to be much nicer than KDE 3 will ever be... someday. For now, I am
much more happy with KDE 3.
But I did miss Dolphin. So I installed it on F8. (# yum install d3lphin)
Dolphin beats Konqueror hands down for me.
So here I sit typing away on this gorgeous laptop, running Fedora 8. They
make a great combination. Everything is very fast and comfortable. I've
got a fast and powerful machine with a versatile, stable, elegant operating
system. This is the way computing is supposed to be. I haven't been this
happy since I moved from a Mac Plus (8 inch B&W display, slow Motorola
32000 processor, 40MB hard drive) to a Sun Workstation back in the 80s !
All is not perfect, however. Not all the hardware works with F8, not that
I've spent much time setting things up. I haven't looked at the webcam,
remote control or finger print reader yet. Nor the flash card reader,
although the kernel seems to recognize it. Maybe it too works out of the
box ?
The soundcard doesn't work properly. Sound does work properly from
headphone jack #2, although it isn't very loud. Sound doesn't work from
jack #1, nor does it work from the laptop speakers. I think I saw a post
and a bug report on this same issue, so I'll give it some time. I was
surprised to find that the funky mute/volume and other audio control buttons
built into the laptop work right out of the box. I find it nice to touch
the mute button on the laptop when the phone rings to silence Amarok rather
than fumbling around with the mouse.
The touchpad works much better than touchpads have in the past. But for
some reason it continues to work even when one shuts it off with the
switch. I haven't looked into this issue yet.
And the eSATA port isn't working yet. Luckily my external hard drive
supports both USB and eSATA so I got by yesterday with using the USB port
instead.
All in all, I am happy to be back in F8 land and very happy with my HP hdx.
Kudos to the Fedora/Linux/OS developers for giving me a great computing
environment.
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with HP whatsoever.
15 years, 6 months
Fedora based Backup system
by Seann Clark
All,
I have played with various backup programs and tools over the years
that are free with Linux (namely Amanda) and I am wondering if there is
a good, multi O/s tool that is out there, that would support various
Unix's (I know Amanda does that) and windows systems. My other question
is what would be the best backup plan to use? Hard drives? Tapes? DVD's?
(Bluray are great @25GB, but suck at US$259 for a 20 pack of them.)
Right now I am using G4L on all my Windows systems, and Amanda on my
*nix platforms, and have had mixed results. When my windows systems are
running it can be hit or miss that it gets anywhere with the
creation/moving of the image over to the storage system (Which is RAID5,
and needs a better backup plan for its 2.8TB+ of total storage) and I am
polling the list to get ideas on a better solution that is
free/inexpensive for a SOHO setup. I know hard drives in external
enclosures is a good bet for some applications (I think of
laptop/desktop backups with that solution) but any better/different
suggestion would be appreciated
Thanks in advance,
Seann
15 years, 6 months