sound recording with Fedora 11
by Kevin Kempter
Hi all;
my son (the musician) has Fedora 11 installed on an HP HDX-16 laptop.
He wants to record some of his band sessions, we tried using 'sound recorder'
and plugging the output of his mixer into the mic input on the laptop.
It does record but the sound is fuzzy and to say it was poor quality would be
an over-estimate, since it's there but barely audible.
Can anyone give us some direction per sound recorders for linux in general and
specifically how to debug & correct this issue with the mic input?
Thanks in advance..
14 years, 7 months
Desktop notifications
by Stewart Williams
Hi all,
I don't really want to have a moan, I was just wondering "why?" and to
get everyone's views.
I remember way back when Linux on the desktop was beginning to progress
faster and people were discussing how to notify the user of certain
system events. Reading various Internet blog posts, articles, websites,
etc. at the time people always bitched about how they found Windows'
desktop pop-ups/notifications in the system tray annoying while they
were working.
How come then, has Gnome and KDE both adopted similar notification
methods which in my opinion are much bigger and a lot more annoying than
any Windows notifications have ever been?
The Gnome pop-ups are clean and concise, which I like, but they are way
to big and take up too much space, thus blocking what I am doing.
In KDE (Fedora 10 + 11), the pop-ups for things such as KpackageKit
stack all the way vertically up my screen and are un-tidy, un-polished
and un-clear (I can post a screen shot if requested)
Don't get me wrong, I love Fedora, used it since FC1, but I cannot
understand why the developers have done similar things like this to
"other OS's" and IMO made them worse.
If I can help with usability in any way, I would be glad to so. I have
seen many mockup's before that are much better than the current systems.
IIRC Jakub Steiner a.k.a Jimmac has done some very good designs[1].
Sorry for the noise - Just want to make a better desktop(tm) :-)
[1] http://jimmac.musichall.cz/guimockups.php?mockup=notifications
14 years, 7 months
How to check cpu temperature?
by Aaron Konstam
On my F11 laprop there is a file:
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
whwen cat-ed displays the temperature of thwe cpu.
However there is not such file on my desktop running F11.
Two questions:
1. How can I display the cpu temperature on the desktop cpu?
2. Is is it maybe because my desktop has a dual core cpu?
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14 years, 7 months
[OT] xorg.conf equivalent of default X config?
by Steven I Usdansky
Is there a way to easily generate an xorg.conf file from a running X session that will be identical in its configuration to the configuration of the running X session (which is run without an xorg.conf file)?
14 years, 7 months
Where is VNC, FC11
by Jim
What is the correct name for ;
Vnc
Vnc-Server
Can't find them in FC11 Repos
14 years, 7 months
MAC address generator script
by Eugeneapolinary Ju
I just can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S
Has anyone has one?
thank you
14 years, 7 months
Modifing Iptables
by Jim
FC11-X86_64/Kde
Trying to setup VNC in fedora 11 but if I put the following line in
/etc/syconfig/iptables ;
# 5901 corresponds to :1, 5902 for :2 and so on.
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5901:5902 -j ACCEPT
Then do # service iptables restart , it fails.
What is happening ??
14 years, 7 months
rkhunter question
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
rkhunter is running daily on my machine and for a while now I have this
kind of message:
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.4 ]
Checking rkhunter data files...
Checking file mirrors.dat [ No update
Checking file programs_bad.dat [ No update ]
Checking file backdoorports.dat [ No update ]
Checking file suspscan.dat [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/cn [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/de [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/en [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/zh [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/zh.utf8 [ No update ]
What does it mean? No update every day? The internet address has
changed? Or...........?
Today:
Warning: Package manager verification has failed:
File: /bin/rpm
Try running the command 'prelink /bin/rpm' to resolve
dependency errors.
The file hash value has changed
The file size has changed
Warning: Package manager verification has failed:
File: /bin/mailx
Try running the command 'prelink /bin/mailx' to resolve
dependency errors.
The file hash value has changed
The file size has changed
Warning: Package manager verification has failed:
File: /usr/bin/curl
Try running the command 'prelink /usr/bin/curl' to resolve
dependency errors.
The file hash value has changed
The file size has changed
Is there any particular reason why the file size and the hash value
have changed?
What is the role of prelink?
Thanks for any answer.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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