MP3s Seem to Only Stream?
by Marc Ferguson
Hey Folks,
I find something very odd about how my MP3 files, especially the larger ones
(podcasts) are played using Songbird, Banshee, Movie Player, etc. I can't
seem to do anything besides play the file. I try to pause and it just stops
or if I want to rewind or forward... I can't. It's treating my local MP3
files as streaming content? The smaller MP3 files, like 5min songs play
just fine, but anything over 30min is handled a different way.
Is this common or is there a setting I need to change? Thanks.
--
Marc Ferguson
www.fergytech.com
www.digitalalias.net
"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"
14 years, 8 months
Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail
by Henrik Frisk
Hi,
I'm running FC11 on a MacBook Pro. After the latest kernel updates (to
2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64) I cannot connect to my wireless router
anymore. If I boot up in the previous kernel it works fine. Any ideas on how
I can fix this? The wireless interface on this laptop is a Broadcom
Corporation BCM4322.
best,
Henrik
14 years, 8 months
F11: FF v3.5.2 bugs: bad rendering, dies untimely death, locks system out
by Dan Thurman
Hum...
As the subject says... I have been finding bad FF failures
on F11 - wonder if I should downgrade until a more stable
version comes out? This version is pretty, but has some
really nasty bugs, me thinks:
+ Bad rendering: simply said, I am seeing extra "stuff" that
shouldn't be there - random vertical or horizontal black
lines and other glyphs I could swear ET was sending
messages.
+ Untimely death: Firefox dies by itself, then restarts,
then says something like: "This is EM BAR ASS ING ...."
and gives you a choice to start fresh or restore what
you had before. Happens fairly often,, once or twice
a day.
+ Locks out system: Uh huh, yep. Your system is in a deep
slumber and is cloistered from the external world.
A swift (re) boot (in the pants) is necessary.
Dan
14 years, 8 months
Booting Fedora from inside windows
by John Wendel
Is there a way to boot a real OS on a windows box (without using a VM)?
I'm looking for a way to boot Fedora on a hostile windows XP box. The
windows box is locked down with a BIOS password, won't boot a CD,
disabled usb ports, and no way for me to install any windows programs. I
believe the Ubuntu thing that runs Linux from windows requires the
installation of a windows program, so it won't work in this environment.
Thanks!
John
14 years, 8 months
Re: no medium xterm font (fwd)
by Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, stan wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:43:30 -0500 (CDT)
> Michael Hennebry <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>> No two fonts have the same height.
>> Until I understand what's going on, I really don't dare tinker.
>
> Why not? I don't understand what harm this does. Are you restricted
> for space? I installed all the available font packages on my system, and
I'm afraid of breaking something.
"breaking" includes making it harder for
me to fix or for others to help me fix.
My fonts technically are not broken,
but from my point of view, they need fixing.
> ran through them trying each one until I found a combination of font,
> characteristics (bold, regular, italic) and size that I liked. Then I
> made that the default. I did this for the terminals under X, and gvim.
> As I recall, there were many fixed width fonts.
How?
I presume I can download all the fonts I want.
How do I tell xterm to use the fonts I want?
For that matter, how do I tell what fonts xterm is using now?
>> What's going on?
>>
>
> I expect that because there aren't the restriction of the console, the
> fonts for the terminal are a little more freeform.
What restrictions?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
14 years, 8 months
/usr/lib vs /usr/lib64
by online.service.com＠gmail.com
It seems i have two python2.6 folders located in /usr/lib vs
/usr/lib64 respectively. Most python stuff (source) is in
/usr/lib64/python2.6 but when in installed packages they have been put
into /usr/lib/python2.6
How the system decides which directory to go when python is requested,
and how it finds the packaged i installed?
Thanks
14 years, 8 months
Re: thunderbird-lightning and sunbird: libcalbasecomps.so: undefined symbol: icaltime_compare_date_only_tz
by John Thompson
Replying to my own prior message:
> Lightning (1.0-0.6.20090715hg.fc11) and sunbird
> (1.0-0.5.20090715hg.fc11) had been working well for me recently on
> Fedora-11 x86_64 but this morning I am greeted with the error
> message:
>
> [john@lancre ~]$ thunderbird Registering Enigmail account manager
> extension. Enigmail account manager extension registered.
> /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b3/thunderbird-bin: symbol lookup error:
>
>
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0b3/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}
> /components/libcalbasecomps.so: undefined symbol:
> icaltime_compare_date_only_tz
Fixed, I think. I downloaded the src rpms and rebuilt from source with
the same problem. So I took a look in the spec file to see if anything
changed from prior versions. Ah-ha! There's a new patch to build
sunbird/lightning using the system ical libraries instead of the ones
Mozilla provides. I commented out the patch (Patch #10:
sunbird-1.0-libical.patch), rebuilt the rpms again, and it works!
HTH someone else, anyway...
--
-John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
14 years, 8 months
Re: Sound does not work
by Adil Adil
Hi here is the error message:
---
# amixer -c 0 cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch',value=false
Wrong control identifier: iface=MIXER,name=IEC958 Playback Switch,value=false
----
> Please do the following:
>
> Run
> amixer -c 0 cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback
> Switch',value=false
>
> If there are no errors, check immediately after whether the
> above values
> have changed in the output of alsa-info.txt. If they
> have, you should
> have sound.
>
> If there are errors, please post them.
>
> This is an alternate way of trying to change the control
> value.
>
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14 years, 8 months
No IPv6 traffic
by Clodoaldo Neto
When capturing the traffic with Wireshark there is no IPv6 traffic at
all. When I set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true I can see all IPv4 in
Wireshark. This is Fedora 10 64.
While it is easy to solve it for Firefox there are many services that
can't connect even if I disable IPv6 in the system. One symptom is Yum
has to try repetitively until it finds a suitable host:
http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata...:
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
Another is that the weather applet and folding@home can't connect.
When I disable IPv6 in the system the applet connects but Yum behaves
the same (multiple tries) and still folding@home can't connect.
My name servers are set to opendns:
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 10.1.1.1
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=d2.localdomain
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet controller
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
DNS1=208.67.220.220
DNS2=208.67.222.222
DNS3=10.1.1.1
GATEWAY=10.1.1.1
HWADDR=00:21:97:00:79:21
IPADDR=10.1.1.110
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
PEERDNS=yes
I have another machine, F11, behind the same ADSL router, Dlink DSL
500B, without problems.
Any ideas?
Regards, Clodoaldo
14 years, 8 months
