Looking for search engine of pdf files
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I am looking for an application to index the pdf files of a selected
directory (only; not of the entire disk) in order to allow searches in
the whole set of pdf files indexed. Of course, I could use Google
Desktop, but I am looking for something much lighter. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
16 years, 3 months
Intermittent Disaster
by Karl Larsen
My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox
web browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a
newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is
coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full
screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing
to do is turn off power to the computer.
This is an unacceptable event. It makes me MAD and since using ext3
I can turn off the computer and not loose anything but sometimes I
reboot and the problem will appear again in just a few minutes.
This problem started right after I changed to this computer. And so
did the need to get a Nvidia driver for Linux. So I think it must be the
Nvidia software generating this. But I do not know this for a fact
because the problem is very intermittent.
I hate this problem so much I plan to load another F8 and see if one
without Nvidia has the problem. The screen is just 800x600 but I can get
Firefox working and see what happens.
Karl
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16 years, 3 months
A2DP support for bluetooth headphones? Prefer a cheap transmitter?
by Paul Johnson
Hi, everybody.
I have some bluetooth stereo headphones and I'd like to use them with
the Dell Latitude D820 running Fedora 8. I've been poking around
trying to find out the state of A2DP bluetooth stereo support and
can't tell my ass from a hole in the ground. Does the bluez support
that is built in to Fedora work? How do you use it?
Does it really consume the whole CPU just to listen to stereo
bluetooth? I read the resource demands are exorbitant.
Maybe I am better off just buying a bluetooth transmitter and plugging
it into the headphone jack?
The Jensen WBT420 Universal bluetooth transmitter has dropped into the
$15 range. I don't know if it is any good, but it is in my price
range! Perhaps it is easier than using the bluetooth in the PC?
Regards!
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16 years, 3 months
Reduce mp3 bitrate
by Tom Spec
I'm running Fedora 8. I'd like to reduce the bit rate (and file size) of some mp3s. Can anyone recommend a tool to do this? Preferably command line.
16 years, 3 months
Way to temporarily disable plugins in Firefox, when testing site requirements
by Nigel Henry
>From time to time folks are asking to test out a site to see if it works in
Firefox. If you have all the various plugins installed, the site may work ok,
but you have no idea as to which of your plugins are making the site work ok,
or which plugins are required by the site.
As an example, someone asked to test out a site, and as it so happened I had a
distro running with no flash-plugin, or Suns JRE installed. The site had 2
windows with plugin problems. One wanted flash, the other JRE.
Perhaps I might be asking a bit much, but is there some way to temporarily
disable all the Firefox/Mozilla plugins, so as to check out which plugins a
particular site requires?
A bit of an academic question, but it would be nice if it was possible.
Nigel.
16 years, 3 months
update error?
by Karl Larsen
I got 7 updates but one java-1.5.0-gcj-devel
has a lot of dependancies and one it can't find. Yum says it can't find
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed
by package java-1.5.0-gcj
So I went to usr/bin/ and found rebuild-security-providers so there
must be an error somewhere.
Karl
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16 years, 3 months
Fedora on an ASUS G23-B2
by Claude Jones
The ASUS G2S-B2 is marketed as a gaming laptop, but is also used
extensively by video integrators in the U.S. to build mobile
video editing workstations. So, that's what I bought recently
after looking at the reviews and prices.
I had one unpleasant surprise when I found it wouldn't run XP, or
at least, that ASUS makes no XP drivers for it. I may yet try to
revert to XP but that's another story for another list.
I did image the drive as soon as the machine arrived, then
removed all partitions and reformatted it, creating two
partitions, one for Windows and one for Linux. (With the image,
I can always restore to exactly how it arrived from the factory)
So far, no distro has satisfactorily loaded on this machine.
Fedora went on, but failed to figure out a driver for the video
card and came up in text mode. MEPIS went on, but, each time I
tried to upgrade from the VESA driver (the only one that would
boot up from the LiveCD, it lost the ability to startx -- I
tried the nv driver, and two different nVidia drivers. MEPIS
also failed to identify the NIC and load a driver for it, so
that was a dead in the water proposition. PCLinuxOS came up in
LiveCD mode, but, lost video when I installed it. KUBUNTU failed
to find a video driver in LiveCD mode.
So, before I start getting specific, and yes, I am googling for
success stories, is anyone on the list successfully running
Fedora or any flavor of Linux on this machine?
No lectures about researching before buying, either, please. I
bought this for my Video Editing needs - Linux on this machine
is strictly for my personal edification, and Linux compatibility
would not have been the deciding factor in this particular
purchase. But, that said, I would still like to get it to
work -- so, any success stories with this particular model?
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16 years, 3 months
SATA disks go MIA
by Will Yonker
Hello all and season's greetings.
I have a system which has 5 hard disks connected. Three are IDE and two
are SATA. The IDE disks are performing fine but the SATA disks are a
problem. I've had various issues with them ranging from being unable to
write to them both disappearing from the system without even an error.
Sometimes I do get an error though.
I had this motherboard & CPU pair working in a Windows XP box for a few
months without issue. I say that hesitantly because there are a few brain
cells murmuring in the back of my head but I can not find them to learn
more.
Could this be a flaky SATA controller? Could it be some BIOS setting that
needs tweaked? Or... As always, any help would be appreciated.
The system information is as follows:
Fedora Core 6
uname -a = Linux www 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 15:12:59 EST 2007
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Motherboard: ASRock 775Dual-vsta
Chipset: VIA® PT880 Pro/Ultra Chipset
CPU: Intel Pentium D 915 Presler 2.8GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core
Processor Model BX80553915
Hard Drives: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA
3.0Gb/s
Below is an example of an error message:
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result:
hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 58654863
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block
7331850
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block
7331851
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block
7331852
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: Aborting journal on device sda1.
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result:
hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 56475719
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block
7059457
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] READ CAPACITY failed
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result:
hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense not available.
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write
through
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: journal commit I/O error
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: ext3_abort called.
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):
ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Dec 23 12:14:41 www kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
Dec 23 12:15:13 www kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 2
Dec 23 12:15:13 www kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Dec 23 12:15:13 www kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block
7045120
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16 years, 3 months
SELinux enforcing, an external ntfs-3g mount, Samba and Fedora 8
by potat0
Has anyone got Samba working to access an external ntfs-3g mount with SELinux enforcing on Fedora 8? The following is what I've done so far, and my networked XP Pro machines aren't even seeing the Linux box--any ideas?
Many TIA,
Craig
Administration->Samba
Directory Share name Permissions Visibility
/mnt/ntfsdrive ntfsdrive Read/Write Visible
Bottom of my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:
[ntfsdrive]
path = /mnt/ntfsdrive
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
System->SELinux Management->Boolean checked:
samba: Allow samba to run as the domain controller
samba: Export all files on system read-write
samba: Allow samba to export user home directories
samba: Allow samba to modify public files
samba: Allow samba to export NFS volumes
samba: Allow samba to run unconfined scripts
Settings->Firewall
Samba green checked as a trusted service
sudo smbpasswd -a username
sudo /etc/init.d/smb restart
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 smb on
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list smb
smb 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
sudo /etc/init.d/smb restart
Shutting down SMB services: [ OK ]
Starting SMB services: [ OK ]
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16 years, 3 months
dvd drive or driver?
by Tom Horsley
I'm been noticing a weird thing lately:
When I first put in a DVD that has a lot of files (backup
stuff I'm sorting through), everything seems readable.
If I let the DVD spin down, take a while looking at some
of the stuff I got off it, then come back to look at
additional files, sometimes the files near "the end" of
the dvd start appearing truncated.
This seems to creep up the disk, with more and more files
becoming apparently corrupted the more cycles I go through
of leaving the disk alone for a while.
If I then eject the disk and remount it, everything comes
back :-).
Does this sound familiar to anyone? (I'm on x86_64 fedora 8).
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