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Installing Fedora 3 on USB Hard disk;
by Mirco Scara 31 May '05

31 May '05

I have a USB hard drive connected via USB2 port on my Pentium IV 2.6GHZ Dell Optiplex GX270 I am tryin gto dual boot with Windows XP at the moment while awaiting Fedora Core 4. Unfortunately Anaconda doesn't seem to be detecting my USB hard disk although during initial graphical boot it does seem to be loading two USB driver of which one is for USB mass storage, which would make you think that it is detecting the external hard disk. Unfortunately when I get tothe stage of having to chooose the hard disk I want to install fedora on i only get the option of the internal hard drive. Has anyone encountered this problem before? Is there any thread on fedora core mailing list where this problem was dealt with. I f so can anyone please send me the link to it? Thank you very much. Mirco

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How to convert .wma to .mp3 ?
by Arthur Pemberton 31 May '05

31 May '05

From my WIndows days I converted alot of my music to wma as it was smaller and my mp3 player supported. OSS applications seem not to fully support wma (for obvious reasons) most troublingly the wma meta data. So I would like to convert select directories of wma to mp3. I have mplayer playing my wmas perfectly. Please advise. Thank you.

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HOWTO: load up 3rd party kernel modules at boot-up
by Florin Andrei 31 May '05

31 May '05

Have a look at this bug report and its resolution: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123927 The idea is that in the upcoming Fedora Core 4 there will be an "official" way to load up arbitrary kernel modules when the system boots up - simply create a *.modules file in /etc/sysconfig/modules and make it executable. Whatever you put into that file will be executed when the system boots up. For example, you probably noticed that the PC speaker does not work (it's a bug reported very long time ago that was never fixed). You can patch that bug with a simple script in the /etc/sysconfig/modules directory, called pcspeaker.modules, with the following content: #!/bin/sh /sbin/modprobe pcspkr Don't forget to do this after creating the file: chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/pcspeaker.modules Reboot, then enjoy your PC speaker. ;-) I tested this method with FC4 test 3 and it works fine. It does not work with FC3 since the supporting bits are not in place. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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setting up default user for postgres db access
by bruce 30 May '05

30 May '05

hi... (already posted to the postgres list) i have a postgres setup with an actual user. i can do a 'psql -Ugforge' and give the password, and get into the app.. the problem i'm having is that i can't get into postrges as the default/root user... any ideas that you might be able to shed... thanks -bruce bedouglas(a)earthlink.net

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re: getting started with mysql
by Jude DaShiell 30 May '05

30 May '05

/etc/hosts.allow might need a line like: 127.0.0.1 in it. If you're just using a home system that's probably all you ever want to find as an uncommented line in /etc/hosts.allow. If you find more than that in /etc/hosts.allow and you didn't put it there, someone else did and they've had unauthorized access to your machine to do it too.

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Re: colors work for ls, but not in man [SOLVED]
by Daniel Nogradi 30 May '05

30 May '05

It was because of xterm. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm was modified from RH9 to FC3 (maybe to other Fedoras also, I'm not sure) and as a result the bold and underline attributes were not colored in xterm (for example man pages were not colored). The solution is to put this in your .Xdefaults: *VT100*colorMode: on *VT100*boldColors: on *VT100*dynamicColors: on *VT100*colorULMode: on *VT100*underLine: off *VT100*colorBDMode: on *VT100*colorAttrMode: on *VT100*colorUL: green3 *VT100*colorBD: blue3 which was in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm by default in RH9, but not FC3. And then make sure .Xdefaults is loaded, for example put in your .Xclients the following: xrdb ~/.Xdefaults And then you will have colored man pages and colored text in other places where the bold/underlined attribute is used, for example in vi the text -- INSERT -- which indicates that we are in insert mode, will also be blue.

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usb printer - how to make work
by kate 30 May '05

30 May '05

How do I get an HP812C printer to work via USB on FC3 box, please? scenario FC3 box working as print server, and will be used by other FC3 boxes, and WIN-XP_Pro box. I should like it all to work IPP, not Samba share. I do recall reading a Fedora posting describing usb/dev/lp0 and making a symbolic link; but the search results that I have got so far don't find that posting, or anything else relevant. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks in advance, Kate __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Semi OT - Bridge Anyone?
by Paul R. Ganci 30 May '05

30 May '05

I want to rid myself of my last vestige of windows by changing over my wife's W2K box to Fedora. Believe it or not I am prevented from doing so because of a blasted computer bridge card game! To bastardize Richard III, "A bridge game, a bridge game, my kingdom for a bridge game" which will work under Fedora 3 (soon to be 4 I imagine). Can anyone suggest anything? I found something a while back but it seems that the game is not under development any longer so I did not want to spring for the cost. I prefer a native Linux game. I will only run wine (or the like) as a last resort but please don't let that sentiment stop a suggestion. Thanks. -- Paul (ganci(a)nurdog.com)

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player plugin for firefox
by Eric Tanguy 30 May '05

30 May '05

How to obtain mplayer or vlc plugin for firefox ? When i try to install mplayerplug-in it needs to install mozilla and i don't want to install it. Thanks -- Eric Tanguy | Nantes, France <eric.tanguy(a)univ-nantes.fr> Key : A4B8368F | Key Server : subkeys.pgp.net Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) sur athlon kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3

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screen grab that snaps the mouse pointer
by Claude Jones 30 May '05

30 May '05

I've been experimenting with different tools to grab screens, but I can't find one that grabs the mouse pointer. Can one of you tell me if such exists? I've tried the keystroke Alt-PrintScrn and the KSnapshot tool approach. For writing software documentation, I could sure use the mouse pointer in a lot of grabs. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA

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