ffmpeg and libfaac support
by Andrea
The latest update from rpmfusion of ffmpeg dropped support for libfaac.
the changelog mentions it
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net> - 0.5-3
- dropped workaround for non-standard openjpeg headers location
- Add BR dirac vdpau. (kwizart)
- Don't build faac by default because it's nonfree. (kwizart)
- fixed PowerPC builds (bug 808)
Do we have an alternative? What's the point?
I see that ffmpeg still supports mp3. I thought it was not free either.
Andrea
14 years, 5 months
apache and SNI
by Genes MailLists
I'd like to test SNI on my web server - which is on fedora 10 - as I
understand this feature comes with 2.2.12 and later.
F10 only has 2.2.11 - short of upgrading the server to 11, is there a
way to get an updated web server (and perhaps openssl ?) running on the
f10 box ?
thanks.
(PS = SNI allows multiple virtual https hosts on a single IP).
14 years, 5 months
Multiple FC11 Update Failures - Kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11
by jrickman＠myamigos.us
Has anyone experienced kernel update failures when updating to various
versions of kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11?
I have 3 different hardware platforms that all experience issues when
updating to different versions of 2.6.30.9-96.fc11. All seem to "halt"
when loading this kernel. Observation of Console output shows "drm"
console output and previous bootlogs from "known working kernels" say EXT4
should be the next console messages. When loading 2.6.30.9-96.fc11 I
never, repeat NEVER, see the EXT4 console messages and the machine never
finish booting. I have waited in some cases as long as 15 minutes just to
give the new kernel "a fair chance" to load.
The only recouce I have when this kernel loading failure occurs is to
Ctrl-Alt-Del, reboot, and select the older kernel from the GRUB menu.
Since I have to reboot the systems to get them working again, I don't know
of any way to capture console output when the loading of the new kernel
"stalls", so opening a Bugzilla case isn't worth the effort (no way to
help the developers if I can't provide any console output). I am open to
any "non-destructive" ideas that do not require any complicated hardware
setups to gather additional data to sort out this issue.
Platform #1
Hardware: Jetway J7F4K1G5S-LF
Memory: 1GB
Purpose: router
Current kernel (uname -r): 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE
Platform #2
Hardware: "unknown" Intel Atom 230 mobo in AcerNAS 340 chassis
Memory: 2GB
Purpose: file server
Current kernel (uname -r): 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.x86_64
Platform #3
Hardware: Asus M3A78 Pro
Memory: 8GB
Purpose: workstation and VMware host
Current kernel (uname -r): 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
The only common thread I can find in all three systems is the following
filesystem format setups:
/boot runs EXT3
/ runs EXT4
/home runs EXT4
/var runs EXT4
/tmp runs EXT4
14 years, 5 months
the ultimate fedora laptop?
by Robert P. J. Day
(ok, not the ultimate, just really, really good since i don't want
to break the bank.)
i'm pondering a new laptop to replace my current gateway, and i'm
wondering what a shopping list would look like if i went out hunting
for a system that would be wildly compatible with the imminent fedora
12.
the first part of that shopping list would be fairly no-brainer:
* buckets of RAM (4G seems standard these days)
* large, 7200 RPM hard drive
* for me, as much screen res as is reasonably affordable
* HDMI port
* bluetooth
* SD card slot (pretty much standard these days)
beyond that, though, what would match up nicely with fedora?
* i'm adamant on getting a 64-bit CPU with HW-assisted virtualization,
of course, but are there any compelling differences between intel and
AMD CPUs? beyond the standard virt support, is it worth looking at
IOMMU support? (intel calls it VT-d, while AMD calls it AMD-Vi. are
laptops shipping with that feature these days? is it immediately
useful?)
* wireless? given the new b43-openfwwf open firmware for wireless, it
would seem that at least *some* broadcom wireless chips are now safe.
* video chipset? that's the choice that always scares me. starting
with f12, what would represent a safe bet? and it would be nice to
have a laptop that would comfortably drive an HD TV.
anyway, you get the idea. thoughts?
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
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14 years, 5 months
Per user installs?
by Dan Thurman
What if, for example, a specific user preferred an application,
say, Amarok v1.4 and yet another user prefers Amarok v2.0?
I surmise that only one package of the same application can
be installed in the /usr/share directory?
The other question is, can a per-user installation be made
available to all users from /usr/share and when the application
is started by the user could be prompted to which version
they desire without smashing the latest version which is installed
in the normal installation areas? It is one thing to install a
per-user installation to the user's home directory, but this
could be inefficient as each user could potentially fill up
valuable disk space and in this case, it might be better to install
at /usr/share instead of each and every user's home directory?
The point is, when installing a package, does the user have
the option to choose where the package is to be installed,
and/or what mode this installation should entail so that the
above scenarios are possible?
If this is already possible, how is it done?
Thanks-
Dan
14 years, 5 months
SQLite error popup
by Matthew Saltzman
Recently, I've started to get occasional pop-ups (in GNOME) with the
message:
SQLite Version Error
The application has been updated, but your version of SQLite is
too old and the application cannot run.
I have no idea what application is being referred to, although it seems
to happen in conjunction with either some NetworkManager event or some
Evolution crash (both of those seem to happen together with some
frequency. I use the Exchange connector in Evolution.
Anybody seen this? Anybody have any idea what it might be?
TIA.
This is an up-to-date F11 system, with a few updates-testing packages.
The ones that seem like they might be relevant:
sqlite-3.6.12-3.fc11.x86_64
evolution-debuginfo-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-rss-debuginfo-0.1.4-6.fc11.x86_64
evolution-data-server-debuginfo-2.26.3-2.fc11.x86_64
evolution-help-2.26.3-1.fc11.noarch
evolution-exchange-debuginfo-2.26.3-2.fc11.x86_64
evolution-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-perl-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-mapi-debuginfo-0.26.2-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-spamassassin-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-data-server-2.26.3-2.fc11.x86_64
evolution-mapi-0.26.2-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-rss-0.1.4-6.fc11.x86_64
evolution-bogofilter-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64
evolution-exchange-2.26.3-2.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64
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Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
14 years, 5 months
shutdown problem -
by Bob Goodwin
After yesterday's F-11 updates I was unable to shutdown this
computer. It proceeded normally to stopping "fail2ban" and then just
stopped there. I held the power button in to shutdown, rebooted and
got the same result a second time. Control Alternate Delete had no
effect. I shut down and went to bed. I expect it will do the same
when next shutdown.
Am I alone in this?
Bob
14 years, 5 months
KDE or Firefox desktop switching problem.problem?
by Steven W. Orr
I'm on F10 + Firefox 3.5.4 that I got from http://blog.famillecollet.com/ +
Thunderbird-2.0.0.23
Also, I did an update so I'm running kde 4.3.2.
Here's the problem. I'm in tbird on desktop 1 with firefox running in desktop
2, and a message has a URL in it. I click on the URL in tbird which causes the
URL to load in the firefox on desktop 2. But now for some reason that I can't
figure out, firefox pops over to desktop 1. If I click and quickly switch to
desktop 2 then I can usually get there before firefox pops over to desktop 1.
Can someone tell me if this is a firefox problem or a kde problem?
Thanks.
--
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happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net
14 years, 5 months
libflashplayer.so
by jarmo
After firefox update got message about old flashplayer. I have installed
latest version of it and it's situated /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Now Firefox
is using nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 whic is quite old. How can I change FF to
use latest libflashpayer.so?
Jarmo
14 years, 5 months
X86 performance monitoring
by Frank Cox
My brother just sent me this inquiry and I thought I would ask here to see if
any of you lot know anything about this before I send him a reply.
Just checking whether you know anything about the various packages
I could use to monitor performance of code running on X86 processors.
I want to measure things like:
- instructions executed, in a block of code (ie., from here to there)
- cache misses (i-cache, d-cache, L1, L2, etc)
- processor cycles
- SSE4 instructions executed
- ... and so on.
There appear to be at least a few packages which expose the
MSR functionality in varioius ways (e.g., the perfctr package).
I wondered if you knew which package would be considered
the 'best'.
One unpleasant aspect of the perfctr package is that it appears
that I need to apply patches to the kernel, then rebuild;
this would appear to increase the complexity of system maintenance
(can't just update and have everything up).
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14 years, 5 months
