Re: How to play .AU files with Fedora?
by William W. Austin
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME.
> I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out.
> "Music Player" won't recognize them at all.
>
> What app should I associate to play .AU files?
> I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME.
> I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out.
> "Music Player" won't recognize them at all.
>
> What app should I associate to play .AU files?
AU files are Sun audio files - I have a very large number of them on a
Sun server.
Many of those do not play well on either of 2 f7 boxen (dual-core
Athlon, if relevant - YMMV). However, so far _all_ of the ones I have
tried work find with /usr/bin/aplay which is part of the alsa-utils
package.
Good luck
--
william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
14 years, 3 months
Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin
This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I
haven't found it (sorry...).
My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor.
I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my
camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with
one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to
synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files
from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and
FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be
great - and much apprecited.
Thanks in advance,
--
william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
14 years, 3 months
Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin
I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on
it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars
unimportant).
To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I
installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still
have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison...
Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under
FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have
eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but
have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either
of these unless I missed them).
Problem 1: network card goes to sleep.
This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel
82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does
not show any problems.
The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL
modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even
ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day.
If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network
configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make
them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting
networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing
which works.
Problem 2: slow local network.
Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast.
Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and
throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not
occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as
I can make it. No workaround found so far.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
--
william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
14 years, 3 months
f12 updates kernel nomodeset option breaks radeon
by Skunk Worx
After updates today my radeon driver does not start properly if the
kernel nomodeset option is used.
The X log has a message :
"Couldn't find valid PLL dividers"
Good news though in other areas :
--I can shell into the machine with ssh, it's not a hard crash.
--If I set up the kernel with "rhgb quiet" and do not use the
"nomodeset" option X starts up normally.
--I no longer need an xorg.conf with "XAA" accel enabled to prevent X
crashes. EXA seems to be working reliably now. (I previously reported
that www.newegg.com and wiki.centos.org were crashing X with EXA enabled.)
EXA seems stable with kernel modesetting though...great!
Smolt :
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_2eb94c68-e819-4003-aa96-47783092c4ab
---
John
14 years, 3 months
1 update available and no updates available
by Allan Dreyer Andersen
Hi all
Behind this strange sounding subject is strange occurence for me.
I'm new to Fedora and have installed F12. All updates are installed by
few days ago I notice the normal 'Updates available' icon in my Gnome
menu.
If I click on the icon I get 'All software are updated' just a few
seconds later.
If I try to run 'yum upgrade' I get no packages marked for update'.
I'm using Danish localized version of Fedora so have tired to translate
back to English but is not sure above is the exact and correct sounding.
Am I doing something wrong here?
--
Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Allan Dreyer Andersen
14 years, 3 months
Setting up a VM to run an F12 guest on an XP host
by John Wendel
I know very little about Windows, so I'm seeking your advice.
I'd like to run F12 on an XP box (so I can get some work done), could
someone point me to the right software. The big problem is that I don't
have admin privs on the XP box so I can't install anything. Is it even
possible?
Thanks,
John
14 years, 3 months
Sound volumes giving you fits?
by Michael Cronenworth
It might be that new "feature" implemented in F11 called "flat volumes."
In an attempt to copy Windows, for only God knows why, the PA folks made
your apps change the system volume. This, coupled with a bug in
gstreamer adjusting at logarithmic amounts instead of linear, it makes
volume management a pain. The fix?
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf
Uncomment "flat-volumes = yes" and change it to "no" and save. Log out,
wait 30 seconds for pulse to die (another great "feature") and log in.
Volume level changes are now normal again! Coupled with the latest PA
update yesterday, F11 now sounds like F10. Ah...
Have a good one.
14 years, 3 months
psacct/lastcomm shows allways root as user
by Herbert Gasiorowski
On Fedora 12 lastcomm only shows root user, even for commands from other users.
It seems to me that e.g. my uid is not within the /var/account/pacct file
- it is allways zero - thus root.
It all works fine with fedora 11.
14 years, 3 months
internet (without LAN) monthly traffic statistics
by Dj YB
hello,
does anyone know of a good (working) program for monthly internet usage stats
I need this info to stay under my monthly traffic cap.
I am using a single ethernet connection for LAN and internet.
iptraf is really complicated and require too many changes,
vnstat doesn't support the separation using single interface...
any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
using Fedora 11 KDE 4.3.2
I won't be able to read emails in the next two weeks so no rush :-)
thanks,
YB.
14 years, 3 months
How to record internal sound on f11 w/audacity
by Gene Smith
I managed to figure this out using f? several releases back but have
been unable to determine how to record internal sounds (e.g., while
listen to ogg file with xmms heard on speakers) using audacity. I have
the default f11 sound setup (pulse?) and my "sound card" is built-in to
motherboard type via8237 I think (as shown on mixer kde applet, or
possibly ac'97, not sure what it's called). Any pointer appreciated.
-gene
P/s: I am able to edit exiting ogg and/or mp3 file in audacity by simply
running the file, no problem with that.
14 years, 3 months