Sansa mp3 player support
by Robert Moskowitz
I have a Sansa Connect player that has a number of the setup functions
disabled (for example the wifi is turned off). I cannot get it into the
mode where it appears as a USB drive to non-M$ systems that have itunes
installed on it.
I just installed FC12 on this notebook. When I plug the Sansa player
in, it displays messages about geting Ablum and song info and then comes
up in its regular Music Library. On my FC12 system, I cannot find any
mounted device (like in /media) and RythmBox (which was running at the
time) does not show any of the songs on the player.
help?
14 years, 3 months
Calendar with recurring tasks?
by Gordon Charrick
It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this
simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that
(uggh) Outlook handles right.
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that
recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You
look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date
they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now
you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one
due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly
bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found
any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
14 years, 3 months
whence RPCBIND_ARGS?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm tracing the execution of rpcbind on my f12 system, and in the
common code, i read:
prog="rpcbind"
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog
while in the start() function, there is:
daemon $prog $RPCBIND_ARGS $1
i'm curious about this since:
1) there's no apparent documentation for setting/using $RPCBIND_ARGS
2) there's no /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind file for initial config
3) there's no mention of RPCBIND_ARGS in the rpcbind man page
admittedly, that doesn't make any of this *wrong*, it just seems
that $RPCBIND_ARGS is kind of hanging out there, without anyone making
an effort to explain what might be done with it or why it would be
useful. thoughts?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
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14 years, 3 months
fedorafaq?
by Dave Stevens
anybody know what happened to fedorafaq.org? Still showing F10 as
their current version.
Dave
--
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Krishnamurti
14 years, 3 months
Where did my penguins go?
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I modified /etc/grub.conf on my ThinkPad W700 to show the boot-up
process as text. I did this by commenting out "hiddenmenu" and removing
"rhgb" and "quiet" from the kernel spec line. The W700 has trouble with
a tickless kernel in F12 and needs "nohz=off". The first stanza is shown
below.
The W700 has an nVidia display and uses the nouveau driver. Immediately
after the menu screen in F10 and F11 I'd see 4 penguins (quad core) as
the initialization began. It was kinda neat, but in F12 there's just
black space where those penguins would be. Where'd they go? Is this an
artifact of the nouveau driver?
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
#
# Kernel 0
title Fedora 12 (Constantine) [Update 3] (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=blah-blah-blah LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us nohz=off
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64.img
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
14 years, 3 months
xen winxp guest image under fedora11 kvm host
by mantra UNIX
Hi all,
I have a xen geust image (winxp) which i would like to use it under fedora
11/12 under kvm.
I know that i can use it, it works BUT its dam slow, dose any one know of
the tricks that would make it perform the same as it were under the Xen0
--
Regards,
mantra - Instrument of Thought
14 years, 3 months
Codecs for VLC
by Jim
FC11
where can Codecs for VLC be downloaded for playing DVD videos.
14 years, 3 months
The Counter-Fedora People At #fedora
by Randy Yates
Why do the following people, time after time, insist on banning me for
asking fedora questions on #fedora?
VileGent
Khaytsus (or however you speel his name)
[R]
They are absolute pricks. If the Fedora community wants to improve
their position with the public, I suggest that they start monitoring
#fedora for the utterly vehement, venomous, vicious attitudes these
regulars have there and do a little pruning of operator priviledges.
I have been a Fedora user for 4 years (since FC3). I have (for
better or worse) provided documentation on some things that have
helped me:
http://galois.digitalsignallabs.com/notes.htm
I have encouraged my friends to switch to linux/fedora. I'm advising
others. I've filed several bug reports. I'M ON-BOARD WITH FEDORA!
So if you want to keep folks like me, and encourage others, please,
PLEASE - clean up the #fedora channel from the egomaniac, self-centered,
self-serving folks that spoil it for so many others.
Have a good New Year!
--
Randy Yates % "Watching all the days go by...
Digital Signal Labs % Who are you and who am I?"
mailto://yates@ieee.org % 'Mission (A World Record)',
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com % *A New World Record*, ELO
14 years, 3 months
