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An mp3 ripping yarn
by David Fletcher 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

I've given my son an mp3 player for Christmas and of course I would like him to be able to rip his CDs to mp3 files using Sound Juicer on his computer not mine. Yes I know that you can also get portable Ogg Vorbis players. I saw some at Staples this afternoon. Unfortunately they're more than double the price of the MP3 player I bought together with a 1G memory card. On my computer which is running FC3 I can rip to mp3 just fine, using the notes I compiled from the results of a couple of google searches:- <MP3NOTES> 1) Put the following into /etc/yum.repos.d/Freshrpms.repo (might need to change the first line to reflect the FC issue number:- [freshrpms-fc-3] name=Fedora Project $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrp… 2) Import the GPG key:- rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms 3) Install the plugins:- yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio Now it should work! Also might need to use yum install xmms-mp3 to get this working too. </MP3NOTES> I tried doing the same on his computer which is running FC4(replacing [freshrpms-fc-3] with [freshrpms-fc-4]). Everything seems to install OK but there is no mp3 option to select in the version 2.10.1 sound juicer on FC4. My FC3 installation has sound juicer version 0.5.14. Now my first question:- Has the mp3 selection been deliberately compiled out of version 2.10.1 to prevent users ripping to mp3 at all even though the plug-in is available elsewhere? Second question:- If this is so, is it being put back into FC5? Something I found out this morning is that if I insert an audio CD and let it mount, I can then open it using Konqueror and browse to various folders, one of which is called "mp3", containing objects which when dragged to the hard drive causes Konqueror to rip tracks from the CD to mp3 files. Very nice, I thought. This operation can be configured using the Sound & Multimedia - Audio CDs section of the KDE Control Centre. Now my third question:- I cannot find the Audio CDs section in the Control Centre on the FC4 machine, and the same audio CD won't mount. Is it supposed to be there? If it is supposed to be there, the only explanation I can think of is that perhaps the CD drive in this machine is an old one that does not support some required functionality? If this is possible, can anybody please suggest the age at which a CD drive might be too old? I can always go out to the shops and buy a new one, but I'd like to feel reasonably sure that I'm spending the money for a good reason. Finally, something else I tried was to yum remove sound-juicer from FC4, and replace it using an FC3 rpm from one of the mirrors. I also had to replace a couple of libraries using rpms from the same place to get it to install. That version under FC4 gave an error message. I can't remember the exact error message but it was something to do with not being able to access the CD drive, and a google search indicated that cdparanoia might be implicated in this problem. At this point I thought sod it and just put the FC4 machine back as it was. But is there any possibility that cdparanoia was simply getting upset about the CD drive itself, for the same reason that Audio CDs doesn't show up in the Control Centre? Many thanks to anybody who reads all this, and many many thanks to anybody who can help. Dave Fletcher -- Registered Linux user number 393408 I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763

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Games
by Ali Helmy 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hey, Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is impossible to continue my life normally without them... So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine? -- A. Helmy

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Weird hardware: how to check it?!
by Strong 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Several weeks ago my USB controller stopped working: it's "seen" system - for I can see hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected in /var/log/dmesg yet it does not function - for it reflects not on plugging a device in. Then I bought a separate controller - and it works now just fine. But! Today I needed my built-in network card to connect to another machine - and I was not able to make it working... I compiled all the drivers for it (10Mbit-1000Mbit - and I have 1Gbit one) but the device like /dev/eth0 didn't appear although I see eth0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State in /var/log/dmesg. But I suppose it can be the same case like with built-in USB controller: the device is seen but does not function... So, my question is: how I can check my hardware? Including that bad USB controller as a test for that checker?! - Thank You. -- Best regards, Strong.

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RE: Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"
by Dave Stevens 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

and there's fedorafaq.org. not comprehensive but pretty good and as far as I know everything there is accurate, easy to read, etc. d -- A. "No, I went voluntarily." Q. "Mr. Presley, were you kidnapped by aliens?"

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/dev/null strangeness
by akonstam＠trinity.edu 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

I have a FC4 system that every time it reboots the permissions on /dev/null change from 0666 to 0660. This causes boot errors and the system will not boot. That seemed to me to be a udev error so I looked in: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and the mode of null seems correct. Am I looking in the wrong place or what can I do to fix this problem? -- ======================================================================= If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for. -- W.C. Fields ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484

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Backing up data to span multiple CDs K3B 0.11.23 cd-record 1.2? Fedora 4 kernel 2.6.12 reposted from September
by Clive＠Rational 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, Is it possible to use K3B to back up data that is over 700MB in size so that it spans multiple backup CDs? I remember zip used to be able to span backups across multiple floppy disks. Thanks Clive

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is evolution really dependent on spamassassin?
by Tim 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I don't use spamassassin, I find it more of a hindrance than a help, so I wanted to remove it. yum remove spamassassin ...[snip]... ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: spamassassin i386 3.0.4-2.fc4 installed 1.8 M Removing for dependencies: evolution i386 2.2.3-2.fc4 installed 24 M And trying "rpm -e spamassassin" produces the same sort of response. Surely this is a stupid dependency? It's supposedly *optional* whether you use anti-spam filtering in Evolution (I've never allowed it's junk mail checking), why should it *have* to be present? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

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Yum errors reported by cron
by Philip Prindeville 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a daily basis. Was wondering what the fix for this was. >/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: > >//var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found >This site is a Mirror for: >^ >Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released >Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml > >

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Problems printing with SMB + cups after update
by C.F. Scheidecker Antunes 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello all, I have setup my machine to accept print jobs from other machines locally. Everything was working great until I've upgraded my FC4 with new packages. I am now having that NT_STATUS_ACCESS_ERROR from my client computer trying to print. Here are my config files. Could anyone point me the error? Thanks, C.F. /etc/samba/smb.conf [laserjet1200] comment = Laserjet 1200 path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes printable = yes /etc/cups/cupsd.conf <Location /printers/laserjet1200> #Order Deny,Allow #Deny From All #Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Allow From 192.168.1.* #AuthType None </Location> Browsing On BrowseProtocols cups BrowseOrder Deny,Allow BrowseAllow from @LOCAL Listen 127.0.0.1:631

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RPM's for creating/enabling TLS/SSL certificates and enabling sendmail milters
by Philip Prindeville 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

I was wondering if there would be any point to doing some .noarch RPM's that could be installed individually to enable additional functionality that isn't turned on out-of-the-box. For instance, I wanted to use IMAP and SMTP with SSL (so that I can connect to my mail server on the road, but not have to worry about leaving it open to spam relaying)... And turn on milters as well (there are HELO checks that sendmail doesn't do on it's own, but I'd like to add... either through hacking the sources, or via milters). I, like a lot of people, haven't ever enabled or configured either of these, but I figure it shouldn't be too hard to capture the steps and then express them in RPM's. Alexander: can you work with me on this? I.e. provide some guidance and reality checks? Thanks, -Philip

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