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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that "Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL then it comes up and displays properly. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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Upgrading : give me strength ...
by Beartooth 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

I've tried all the tricks on this list a/o the troubleshooting site, over and over. I finally gave up : downloaded and burned a DVD -- and *still* hit the catch-22 error, with too little space in mnt/sysimage/ boot. Now what? Can I simply delete all of /boot, or everything in it? All of grub.conf? Or what? It's going to be a royal pain if I have to burn all my data to media, and then sneakermail that back onto each machine, instead of just upgrading f11 .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Test GIMP 2.7/2.8 ?
by Valent Turkovic 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I there a way to test new GIMP 2.7/2.8 in Fedora? I looked in Rawhide repos and I still see only 2.6x versions there. Any plans to put 2.7 in Rawhide repost for testing purposes? -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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F12 installs report here.
by linux guy 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Subject says it all. Tell us about your experience. LG

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Vinagre???
by Antonio M 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

I have two boxes, both have UltraVNC and Vinagre (Remote desktop viewer), exactly the same packages both in F11 fully updated When I connect from A to B both Vinagre and UltraVNC work, but when I connect from Ato B UltraVNC works fine but in Vinagre I see the list of remote desktops, but when I try to connect I get the message Connection closed: The connection to host B has been closed. Any idea?? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomontag(a)ekiga.net

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assertion in NetworkManager
by Philipp Böhm 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hello @all, after upgrading to Fedora 12 I get some problems with NetworkManager for example Wireless Networks were disabled and you couldn't avtivate this. Some entries in /var/log/messages shows me an assertion in NetworkManager. I will post these line and I hope that somebody can help me. My wireless-device is an Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (wlan0). /var/log/messages: Nov 22 11:00:18 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch Nov 22 11:00:18 philipps-toshi rpc.statd[1270]: Version 1.2.1 Starting Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ... Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: ifcfg-rh: error: Missing SSID Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ... Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: ifcfg-rh: read connection 'System eth0' Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ... Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath5k') Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): now managed Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device. Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2). Nov 22 11:00:19 philipps-toshi NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed

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Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
by jaivuk 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello guys, I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora 11. First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default one?! Second problem I have is shutdown button (and possibly restart as well) - when you click on shutdown button by mistake, system will shut - there is no confirmation dialog. I also tried to find some ways how to customize gdm in Fedora 11 but I did not find any usable guide. Can anybody please advise me how can I have prompt asking for username only (showing last logged user at maximum) and not displaying the list of all local users? Also can I somehow add confirmation or remove shutdown restart buttons from gdm screen? Or can you please advise any alternative to gdm? Thank you very much, Jan

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SMS server/gateway
by Jamie Bohr 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

I am looking for a SMS server software for RHEL. The phones we use can receive email but it does not always get to the phone in a timely manner and sometimes I get "connected refused" when trying to send messages via email. I've looked at smstools and Googled around but would like the forums opinion on what they have used and experiences. Thank you for your time, -- Jamie Bohr

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