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Re: TV over the internet
by R. G. Newbury 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

On 01/11/2010 06:08 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: William Case wrote: >>> > > Hi Tim; >>>> > >> >>> > > I have a TV tuner card with my computer connected to my cable. It's >>> > > great. I prefer it to having my computer connected to my TV. >>> > > >> > What application do you use for watching? I've been looking for something user >> > friendly to give some people still on FC4 because they can understand xawtv and >> > all the easy to use applications stopped working. They rejected MythTV at the >> > point where it said "have your DBA set up a database..." and I have not found >> > anything which can handle clear-QAM, over the air digital, and NTSC without >> > asking for user entered channel frequencies in MHz or other things these people >> > aren't about to do. >> > >> > Note: even if I was willing to set it up for them for free, they would expect >> > support at the same price, advice I give them, time consuming work not so much. >> > > I use TVTime. It does one thing only, but it does it well. It gives me > my cable TV. > > It is easy to install and configure and just keeps on ticking. > > (Actually it does more than one thing, but there is no doubt that it's > main purpose is to run a TV tuner card for TV viewing.) Still on FC4???? On a Pentium 3 too I presume? Clear-QAM and OTA require an ATSC tuner, while an NTSC tuner is needed for analog cable. There are tuner units which will do both, although not all will do so simultaneously. Mythdora is a Fedora based, all in one install of mythtv. It will set up everything you need from one iso image. And Mythtv has definitely NOT required 'your DBA to set up a database' since well before Fedora 4. If your hardware is known to Fedora, then mythtv will not require any 'channel entered frequencies'. You merely select the proper tuning basis, such as US-Broadcast or US-cable when setting up the tuner(s). At the moment, the problematic area is setting up QAM on cable channels due to the cablecos using their own variable channel numbers for the channels (and generally, not including proper PSIP infor in the stream). That is, of course, where the cableco actually provides some clear QAM...which Rogers Cable in Canada, for example, has not done since June 2007. Geoff -- Please let me know if anything I say offends you. I may wish to offend you again in the future. Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."

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KGpg "An error occurred while scanning your keyring"
by Jonathan Ryshpan 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

This error pops up whenever my system boots up. Clicking on [Details <<] produces a message box with the single entry "Details" in it. What's happening? Thanks - jon

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ESC/P thermal receipt printers and Linux...
by Fernando Cassia 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Running dmesg after plugging my POS-5890K labelled usb thermal receipt printer, it identifies itself as full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci idVendor=0416, idProduct=5011 Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Product: POS58 USB Printer Manufacturer: GD32 Microelectronics SerialNumber: Printer I found the hard way that these printers are not supported by CUPS by default ... one has to go the extra length to either send esc/p codes manually via your own app http://kg4zqz.blogspot.com/2016/08/escposf-thermal-printer-filter-and.html ...or compile a driver from source, just like 20 years ago for some printers... maybe 2018 will be the year of desktop linux *sarcasm* I've tried this driver and it didn't work... http://scruss.com/blog/2015/07/12/thermal-printer-driver-for-cups-linux-and… (the driver source was fetched by git from its current github repo, so it's not out of date, it's in fact newer than the above blog post) What gives more clues is the small piece of thermal paper that came with the printer with a printout of its self-test (surely from Windows). It reads: 58-IV-U Thermal Printer Version: 58.E-Z04-AA Revised date: 06-Jan-2017 Command Standard: EPSON (ESC/POS) Print mode: Normal mode & Hex Mode Print method: Line Thermal Print width: 384 dots/line Print speed: 90 mm/s Chinese Mode: NO Print density: Level3 Current Codepage:0 Interface Type: USB Current Character: Chinese (GB18030) Alphanumeric Code Page: 0: OEM437 (Std.Europe) 1: Katakana 2:OEM850 (Multilingual) (…) 96:(Thai2) I wonder why the CUPS folks have not released a generic “EPSON ESC/POS” printer driver where the above parameters can be tweaked and entered manually. The driver mentioned above was compiled, and installed but didn’t work. A sample print gave gibberish. A second text-only printing (by clicking the CUPS “print self-test page” read “IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU’RE USING THE WRONG DRIVER FOR YOUR PRINTER”. A crude bug-finding code it seems… Any ideas before I head over to the CUPS maling list and pull my hair? For instance, this blog post https://mike42.me/blog/2015-03-getting-a-usb-receipt-printer-working-on-lin… talks about using "usblp" but commenters say "usblp" was deprecated (already in 2015) So what does replace usblp? And look, here someone else also pulling his hair. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45926734/raw-cups-printer-how-to-avoid-… FFS, a line printer was the first type of printer, back in the days of RS232 ports. If we can't get a USB line printer detected and configured and send ASCII to it, we're doomed. All because there's a dozen poorly documented layers of software crap obscuring it... FC

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Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?
by Andre Robatino 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

I have a Lenovo X131e which is currently running an old BIOS from johnlewis.ie (4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty, 09/04/2014). It was originally a Chromebook and I replaced the BIOS so there would be no danger of it automatically reinstalling Chrome. I see there is a Lenovo page at https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds029771-bios-update-utility-boo… with what appear to be BIOS updates from 2019 for the x131e, any machine type, but labeled as for Windows. Are other people using this already with Fedora? If I installed it using the Bootable CD image, any reason why the current Fedora-only install wouldn't continue to work? Just want to make sure since it's currently working okay and I just don't like the idea of having an old nonstandard BIOS installed.

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F41 Firefox migration
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

I followed the process of copying my whole .mozilla hidden folder (after first renaming the one created by firefox) from my old F38 system to my new F41 system. Seems to work. Probably brought along all sorts of old cruft that might have been better lost. One problem though. On starting Firefox after installing the new .mozilla folder, I got a page opened: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/welcome/25/ Warning me that Firefox will BREAK on Mar 14, 2025 due to expiring certs. Will this be fixed automagically on a Firefox update or is there some specific file(s) to copy from that renamed .mozilla folder? thanks

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Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

I ran: dnf install vim-default-editor --allowerasing But I am still getting nano when I try to "crontab -e" Do I have to logout and back in for this change to take? Or is there an easier way?

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F40 KDE hangs after 25 minutes when idle
by Go Canes 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

I have a laptop running F40 Server with KDE, fully updated, that I have been using without issue. I am in the process of moving to a new laptop and plan to repurpose the old one. But I am running into an issue with the old laptop. If the laptop is idle it locks up after ~25 minutes. "Idle" can mean no one logged-in, or a user logged-in but not doing anything. If the user is doing something, it does not lock-up. "Something" can be running a Windows 10 VM, a ssh session running "top", etc. To recover the system I have to do a hard-reset using the power switch. Things I have checked: - Nothing is displayed on the screen - There are no entries in the UEFI BIOS logs - There are no messages for the lock-up shown by "journalctl -b -1 -r". - All of the entries in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf have been changed from "yes" to "no" and uncommented - no change - systemctl entries for sleep, suspend, hibernate have been masked - no change - Even though the desktop is KDE, I have checked "gsettings" for any power or timeout related settings - nothing of interest - If I boot off of a F40 Cinnamon install on a USB SSD drive, there are no issues. Theories: - auto sleep/suspend/hibernate - contraindicated by no change in behavior with changes to sleep[.conf and/or masking system units. Also, system should wake-up from any of these states. - thermal event - contraindicated by lack of UEFI log entries, lack of issue when system is active, lack of issue when booted off of USB drive - hardware issue - contraindicated by lack of issue when system is active or booted off of USB drive. Any suggestions? The only other thing I can think of to try is a re-install; I plan to do this eventually anyway, but wanted to delay for a few weeks. In the meantime I guess I can keep the Windows 10 VM running, it just seems wasteful.

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Session alrady running
by Patrick Dupre 01 Mar '25

01 Mar '25

Hello, Now, propabaly after a remmina session, I get Session alrady running Log is not possible because a remore session is already running for To login, you must log out from the remote session or force stop it The only option is to canczl. Then I run sudo pkill -KILL -u <username> This let me login, but the issue reappears at the next time. Would you have a solution? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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Quickemu
by Patrick O'Callaghan 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

I recently came across Quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu It's a wrapper for QEMU that facilitates the creation of VMs including multiple Linux distros, Windows verions and MacOS versions. It even downloads the ISOs for you. It would be nice to have it in the Fedora repos (licensing terms permitting). poc

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startx
by Patrick Dupre 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Hello, I have one x session running, but I wish to open a second one I try to open a session text mode and then startx -- :2 but I get xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL, for I/O (Operation not permitted) (II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc. xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file Thanks =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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