which version of fedora to install
by Prabhakar Pandey
i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good
and i should try f12 or f11 .
so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ??
and it would be nice if u tell me how to install various media players and
all in it coz i find pretty difficult installing them !!
thanks
prab
14 years, 2 months
How to get non-console users access to audio / sound device?
by S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
Hi!
Just wondering if you have any suggestion on giving a
non-console users access to audio / sound device?
Background: in my office computer (currently running Fedora 12)
I like to open personal e-mails etc. in separate environment. So
I created a separate user, ssh into it, make sure DISPLAY is
correct there and xhost is correct from the console user, then
run application from there. The issue is sometime I would like
to get sound also.
Thanks!
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14 years, 2 months
Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.
by Gene Heskett
Greetings all;
rs-232 tech is getting old, like me.
Do we have a tool that can display graphically in near real time, the status
of the commonly used wires/signals in the '7 wire' protocol?
I need something that works a bit like the old db25 tester with a bunch of
LED's to tally the line states like that gismo Radio Shack sold 20 years ago.
Those blinking leds were a very good troubleshooting tool, and I'm having
flow control problems that look like a system freeze on one end or the other,
but when rz times out, I still get a prompt from the shell on the other end,
but nothing I type here arrives there, like hardware flow is still in effect
and turned off on one end or the other.
Thanks All for any hints.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There's no future in time travel.
14 years, 2 months
How do I put Multiple live distro's on a USB flash drive.
by tux
I have an 8GB flash drive that I would like to put multiple Fedora Live
CD's on. (KDE,Gnome,LXDE,XFCE, FEL, Games and Edu,Third party spins, etc. )
Does anyone have any advice on how to do this?
Can I put 32 bit and 64 bit live cd's on the same flash drive and choose
between them?
Thank you,
Tux
14 years, 2 months
Fedora 12 Brother QL-560 (P-touch) Label Printer?
by Frank Murphy
Hi,
When plugged in it knows what it is,
but cannot find a driver for it.
foomatic-4.0.3-8.fc12.x86_64
ptouch-driver-1.3-2.fc12.x86_64
Any advice, Google sends me to Windows sites.
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Regards,
Frank Murphy
UTF_8 Encoded
14 years, 2 months
Fedora 12 update problem
by Taoufik GABSI
I just installed fedora 12 as an update of a fedore 11 system.
This morning I saw 683 updates proposed for my system.
I clicked on "Install Updates" button and had, some seconds after this
message:
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Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not
found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in
<module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710,
in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657,
in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1948, in
update_packages
signed = self._is_package_repo_signed(pkg)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1437, in
_is_package_repo_signed
repo = self.yumbase.repos.getRepo(pkg.repoid)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 121, in getRepo
'Error getting repository data for $s, repository not found' $ (repoid)
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Any help?
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Cordialement / Best Regards
Taoufik GABSI
Géophysique Spatiale et Planétaire
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
4, avenue de Neptune - 94107 SAINT MAUR cedex - FRANCE
gabsi(a)ipgp.fr
Tel +33 (0)1 45 11 41 49
Fax +33 (0)1 45 11 41 10
14 years, 2 months
Testing sound?
by Timothy Murphy
The sound on my Thinkpad T43 (model 1871-12G) sometimes works,
and sometimes does not work.
I think this has something to do with Suspend to Disk.
However, I'm not really asking about this,
but rather: Is there a simple way of testing if sound is working?
I'm running Fedora-12/KDE, and looked at System Settings=>
Look and Feel=>Notifications ,
but did not really understand how one is supposed to use this.
Is there a simple command-line test for sound?
Shouldn't there be a test somewhere in KMix
since there seem to be a billion choices there?
The only test I have found is to put in a CD and run Amarok,
but I am sure there is something simpler than that?
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
14 years, 2 months
Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?
by Chris Smart
Hey all, I'm still new to Fedora in that I've never seen a new major
version of Firefox in this time.
Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed out as a system upgrade, or will Fedora
stick to the stable 3.5 series?
if so, any idea of eta? Would it be similiar to 3.5 series or take
longer cause it's a major upgrade?
Thanks a bunch.
-c
14 years, 2 months
ProFTP Glitch
by mike
When trying to do an /etc/init.d/proftpd start on my Fedora 11 box, I am
getting a return of Failed.
I can find no service which might be interfering and no log file
anywhere showing me an error.
Any Ideas?
Thanks
Mike
14 years, 2 months
