What happened to mplayerplug-in?
by Knute Johnson
I loaded F9 yesterday and I was setting up my computer and wanted to
listen to my favorite radio station. So I installed the livna repo and
went looking for mplayer and the mplayerplug-in. There doesn't appear
to be a mplayerplug-in any more. Anybody know what's up with that?
Does it have something to do with the mozplugger?
Thanks,
--
Knute Johnson
linux(a)www.knutejohnson.com
16 years, 1 month
F9 and NetworkManager?
by Knute Johnson
I installed F9 on an old computer that only has 256M of RAM. I did a
text mode install and it worked fine. One interesting thing is that if
you do a text mode install, gdm is apparently not installed. Anyway,
when I start up X, the NetworkManager is running but it doesn't enable
my wired connection. I've played around with the menus and put in the
MAC address but that had no effect. I'm sure I'm missing something
simple but I need a hint.
Thanks,
--
Knute Johnson
linux(a)www.knutejohnson.com
16 years, 1 month
xfce not displaying settings manager in F9
by Globe Trotter
hi,
I have been trying to change my display settings using the settings manager on the xfce panel and nothing seems to be happening.
% xfce-setting-show
just brings back the prompt. What could be wrong? I can't figure out the problem since there is no error message that I could locate.
Among the logfiles wpa_supplicant.log is updated, but it is not clear if anything is written: the last line CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS but it is not written at this time.
many thanks for any insight.
trotter
16 years, 1 month
fedora 9 netboot
by Daniel Agar
I'm having trouble netbooting a fedora 9 client setup using
system-config-netboot. Everything is working fine until the client tries to
bring up eth0, and then it just sits there at determining IP information. My
dhcp server shows
dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:6e:8c:ea:c9 via eth0
dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.11 to 00:0c:6e:8c:ea:c9 via eth0
dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.11 (192.168.1.2) from 00:0c:6e:8c:ea:c9 via
eth0
dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.11 to 00:0c:6e:8c:ea:c9 via eth0
I haven't a clue where the problem is, or even where to start.
Thanks
daniel
16 years, 1 month
konqueror & app handling
by charles f. zeitler
i set the handler for x-torrent as
path-to-azureus, and that to "run in
terminal" but it seems to skip opening
the term, unless the web site that hosts
the torrents asks me for a five digit
confirmation. weirdness.
any pointers?
thanks
charles zeitler
: Do What Thou Wilt :
: Shall Be :
: The Whole of The Law :
--Aleister Crowley--
16 years, 1 month
File with unreadable (?) permissions, mucks up rsync
by reikred＠gmail.com
I have a file in /home/<user>/.emacs.d/auto-save-list which has unreadable (?) permissions,
and also cannot be deleted, at least not by conventional means
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? .saves-2879-homepc.localdomain~
Any thoughts on how to get rid of this file? It is mucking up my rsync jobs, rsync
reports that the file has disappeared and that there is an I/O error.
16 years, 1 month
SAMBA-Error after upgrading to FC9
by E.D. Grootjans
I have FC9 with samba on PC4
And on PC1 is still use Windows98
1) I had no problems with FC8 and samba, but after upgrading i get an
error.
If i try to connect a share from fc9, bij using the filebrowser, i get
the following message:
Cant mount location:
DBus error
org.freedesktop.DBUS.Error
InvalidArgs:
Mountpoint Already registered
2)The other way arround:
If i try to go to a shared directory - i get a screen with
Password for path \\PC4\IPC$
If i type the password for the account im logged into the win 98 PC -(an
account with the same username/password exists in passwd and in
smbusers(with smbpasswd created))
I get the message wrong password.
3) Also the shared printers on the fc9 host does not work. (IT did work
under fc8)
Here i get also the question for a password for the printer
\\PC4\LASERJET_6MP
password:
If i give the password for the user i'm logged in with - i get the same
question all over again.
The printer is shared for anyone in smb.conf
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
guest ok = yes
; writable = No
printable = yes
browseable = yes
Can anyone help me with this. Thanks ...
Erik
16 years, 1 month
Switching desktops
by Chris Howard
Greetings!
I haven't been able to figure out how to use the KDE desktop instead
of Gnome in version 9. I had the updater grab all the 4.04 files, but
I how do I get it to switch?
Chris Howard
16 years, 1 month
F9 KDE4 - CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
by dexter
I'm getting this error:
+ /usr/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=FEDORA -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc -DINCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/include/kde4 -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib -DLIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/libexec/kde4 -DDATA_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/kde4/apps
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Check size of void*
-- Check size of void* - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
/home/dexter/rpmbuild/BUILD/ksystemlog/src/CMakeLists.txt:41:
Unknown CMake command "kde4_add_ui_files".
-- Configuring done
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.52261 (%build)
Anybody know which package "kde4_add_ui_files" macros are defined?
...dex
16 years, 1 month
Mysteries of sound in Fedora-9
by Timothy Murphy
I'm finding it very difficult to understand
the Sound setup in Fedora-9 with KDE.
Previously, sound did not work at all when I re-booted.
But after some unrecorded sequence of clicks
on f=>Applications=>Multimedia=>Sound Mixer
it suddenly started working.
Today, I wondered if the problem was something to do
with pulseaudio, so I tried killing this and re-starting it.
But I got the more or less incomprehensible error message below:
----------------------------------
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ sudo killall pulseaudio
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ sudo pulseaudio -D
W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system
is specified).
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ pulseaudio -D
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was
requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us
priviliges. Dropping SUID again.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate
PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the
RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
----------------------------------
So I added myself to the pulse-rt entry in /etc/group with vigr
(and the shadow file with vigr -S).
Then I pressed ctrl-alt-backspace and logged in again.
Now I get sound, but it is very quiet,
although every slider that I can see is pushed to the maximum.
Also the loudspeaker in the panel has disappeared.
I thought this was the icon for Sound Mixer,
but I find this is not so;
when I right click on Sound Mixer and add the icon to the panel
it is quite different.
Surely I cannot be the only person having these problems
with Sound under Fedora-9?
I should say that this is on an IBM ThinkPad T23.
Multimedia and in particular Sound is easily the weakest chain
in Fedora, and has been for several versions of Fedora.
The whole Sound system is absurdly complicated,
and disentangling it is like eating spaghetti.
I'd like to say to the Fedora and KDE sound teams,
"Please don't add or subtract anything
until you have properly documented what is already there.
Try adding some test files, and check that your error messages
are comprehensible, with advice on what steps to take."
16 years, 1 month
