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two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else
by mike cloaked 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning - two machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely ( unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time. I had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine from new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything to do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number of other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both were also using ext4 files systems. I would like to know if this is a chance event or related to kernel changes, particularly related to ext4? If nobody else has anything remotely similar happen then I will conclude that I am just very very unlucky - but I would like to know if anybody else has had a mysterious total failure of their system in the past 24 hours. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/two-major-failures-after-yesterday-updates---anyone-e… Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: How to play .AU files with Fedora?
by William W. Austin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME. > I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out. > "Music Player" won't recognize them at all. > > What app should I associate to play .AU files? > I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME. > I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out. > "Music Player" won't recognize them at all. > > What app should I associate to play .AU files? AU files are Sun audio files - I have a very large number of them on a Sun server. Many of those do not play well on either of 2 f7 boxen (dual-core Athlon, if relevant - YMMV). However, so far _all_ of the ones I have tried work find with /usr/bin/aplay which is part of the alsa-utils package. Good luck -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I haven't found it (sorry...). My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor. I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be great - and much apprecited. Thanks in advance, -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars unimportant). To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison... Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either of these unless I missed them). Problem 1: network card goes to sleep. This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does not show any problems. The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day. If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing which works. Problem 2: slow local network. Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast. Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as I can make it. No workaround found so far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Sound volumes giving you fits?
by Michael Cronenworth 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

It might be that new "feature" implemented in F11 called "flat volumes." In an attempt to copy Windows, for only God knows why, the PA folks made your apps change the system volume. This, coupled with a bug in gstreamer adjusting at logarithmic amounts instead of linear, it makes volume management a pain. The fix? /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Uncomment "flat-volumes = yes" and change it to "no" and save. Log out, wait 30 seconds for pulse to die (another great "feature") and log in. Volume level changes are now normal again! Coupled with the latest PA update yesterday, F11 now sounds like F10. Ah... Have a good one.

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Re: TV tuner, sound etc. -- what does this mean?
by Bill Case 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi; I have been going through my messages log and saw this. ... kernel: tuner 2-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (cx23885[0]) kernel: tda829x 2-0042: could not clearly identify tuner address, defaulting to 60 kernel: tda18271 2-0060: creating new instance kernel: TDA18271HD/C1 detected @ 2-0060 kernel: tda829x 2-0042: type set to tda8295+18271 ... Is this normal, or does "could not clearly identify tuner address" indicate a problem? -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 22.3.1

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installing Fedora 11 on dual-boot machine changes active partition?
by Andre Robatino 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the MBR. He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate?

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Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces
by RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If yes how? Kishore

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anyone install android 2.0 sdk on 64-bit fedora?
by Robert P. J. Day 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

given the first release of android 2.0, has anyone out there successfully installed that on a 64-bit fedora? specifically, fedora 11 or (hopefully equivalently) fedora 12 beta. i'm just about to give it a shot, but it would be nice to know that someone else has already done it and identified any glitches hidden in the install instructions: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html based on a quick perusal, it would seem that open jdk is now compatible (whereas it didn't used to be), and one still has to install the minimal packages for 32-bit compatibility. in any event, if someone else has already done this, that would be awesome. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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F11 Nvidia 8300 GS and kmod-nvidia-PAE fail
by mike cloaked 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Has anyone had a total failure to run kmod-nvidia with an 8300 GS graphics card in f11? My system (http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_0461ec99-2d05-44bf-ac48-1a0d78a17c52) used to run with the kmod-nvidia-PAE installed from rpmfusion just fine in f10 with no issues at all. When I installed (clean) the new f11 system on this machine (in fact two machines with this card both have identical issues), the install was fine, I then yum updated to the latest kernel and, as per my normal upgrade procedure, then yum installed kmod-nvidia-PAE from rpmfusion. This process worked without issue on two other machines which have nvidia graphics cards (but not the 8300 card). On rebooting, the boot began as normal (text kms/plymouth with the blue/white running line on the bottom of the screen), but as soon as x should start - it didn't. There was a blank screen with a flashing cursor at top right only. I removed the kmod-nvidia package, and xorg.conf and ran without it until yesterday. After updating the system to the new kernel yesterday I booted to the new kernel 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE - which was fine and tried yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE (which is the correct version of kmod-nvidia for this card and kernel I believe) and rebooted - same as the original problem - after the plymouth non-graphical boot, blank screen with flashing cursor - except that some seconds later a couple of lines of text appeared on the screen related to selinux audit. I removed kmod-mvidia and am running without it again - this morning in the syslog there are lines: audit(1256631766.417:29202): auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 op=remove rule key=(null) list=2 res=1 However I am not sure this is directly related to the kmod-nvidia-PAE or not. Anyway I wonder if anyone else has had a problem with this card and an inability to use kmod-nvidia? If so is there a known workaround? Thanks for any replies. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F11-Nvidia-8300-GS-and-kmod-nvidia-PAE-fail-tp2609129… Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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