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multi-media packages/gcc/latest CPU optimizations
by RS 31 May '09

31 May '09

Hi, I'd like to understand how some of the multi-media packages are compiled for distros to make maximum effective use of the latest CPU features (SSE4,multi-core,large L2/L3 caches etc) I understand pkgs are compiled assuming i386 (or i686?) to cover the vast majority of PC's out there. For packages like vlc,mplayer,dvd::rip,handbrake,thoggen (i.e multi-media related) are there specific GCC/runtime optimizations that yield "real world" performance. Let's keep gaming aside for a moment, I have a bunch of PC's at home (Phenom II X4, Core 2 Quad and a new Core i7 that is being built) that are mostly used for watching high def video, ripping and encoding etc. I buy only NVIDIA cards for my linux boxes and the latest 180.60 linux driver does a pretty decent job (still not as good as the WinXP or Vista versions though) I'd like to avoid Gentoo for now. Folks have asked me to try Arch and Slackware and build from a minimal base, but I still like Fedora for the ease with which it handles my general computing requirements (flash, latest OO.org pkgs, programming tools, latest firefox etc) Thoughts/Comments/Flames welcome.... Ravi

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Speech to Text
by Gregory P. Ennis 30 May '09

30 May '09

Fellow Users, Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text software for the fedora system -- Greg Ennis

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with atl1e driver: Corrupted MAC on input
by Gene Czarcinski 30 May '09

30 May '09

I believe I have detected a significant problem with the "atl1e" driver for the Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0) when running Fedora 11 preview with the latest updates. This controller is integrated on the ASUS M4A78 PRO motherboard. Although my problem occurred when I was running scp, I believe that the problem could also occur with other forms of data transfer and only show up as corrupted data (files). Thus, I thought this email appropriate to warn other users. My current "solution" is to install another NIC. This problem has been reported: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503288 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13404 This is no "show stopper" but may be of concern to other users. I am posting a separate copies of this email to the test and user mailing lists. Gene

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Fedoraproject wiki
by Suvayu Ali 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hi, The other day while trying to look for some information on the wiki, I got very disappointed with the way the information was organized. Specially the search doesn't seem to return very relevant results unless you know *exactly* what you are looking for. Somehow the heavy use of subpages in the fedora project wiki struck me as odd and inefficient. After some searching and reading I came to some conclusions. 1. The concept of subpages evolved from the need to order articles hierarchically.[1] However after the category system was introduced, this became redundant as organisation of information is in itself a non-linear idea and the use of categories is simply much more efficient in that regard. 2. The search function in mediawiki looks through the page names in specified namespaces. And through a combination of bugs and features a particular search might/might not be effective.[2] So could it be, that the search function could be made more effective if we stop using subpages in the 'Main:' namespace? Maybe we could follow some thing like wikipedia does, subpages are allowed only in the 'User:' namespace. Moreover since a wiki is after all a free-form source of information, wouldn't it be more logical to rely on the category system to organise the information rather than force some hierarchy by the use of subpages? Just a thought, what do you think? Is this a worthwhile thought? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages#History_of_subpages [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Can't get updates
by Anne Wilson 30 May '09

30 May '09

I'm having great problem after upgrading F9 to F10 (using an install dvd). I get huge numbers of updates downloaded, but then it fails. The problem appears to be related to my updates repo. I've tried it with both baseurl and mirrors, without success. Errors I've seen include Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released- f10&arch=i386 error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates Trying other mirror. http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/10/i386/xsane- gimp-0.996-3.fc10.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Trying other mirror. My updates repo says: [updates] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-release… f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch [updates-debuginfo] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$release… #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released- debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch [updates-source] name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$release… #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released- source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch Can someone point me to the problem and solution? Thanks Anne

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Re: One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release
by Axel Thimm 30 May '09

30 May '09

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:36:18AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has > necessitated another week slip of our schedule. The change is important > but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests. We were > already late in producing the Release Candidate and there is not enough > time to produce another one and validate it in time for next Tuesday's > release date. Therefor we have decided to enact another week long slip > of the release. This gives us time to create a second release candidate > and fully validate it and hand it off to the mirrors in plenty of time > to sync up for the new release date of June 9th. As much as we regret > slipping, we also wish to avoid easily trigger-able bugs in our release, > particularly in software that cannot be fixed with a 0-day update. > > At this time we would only accept tag requests for critical issues. > > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500808 Does it make sense to fold in the f11 updates into the next preview release? E.g. to move all current updates back to rawhide? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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F11 /boot and ext4 No can do, Grub does not support /Ext4
by Leslie S Satenstein 30 May '09

30 May '09

Eric, it should go into the documentation for F11. ------------------ Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein voice: 514-369-1685 mailto:lsatenstein@yahoo.com --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Eric Sandeen @redhat.com> wrote: Subject: Re: /boot and ext4 To: lsatenstein(a)yahoo.com Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 5:10 PM Leslie Satenstein wrote: > When I started testing F11, I could only get Linux to load if /boot was > an Ext3 system. Has this been checked and is /boot able to be formatted > as Ext4 > our grub doesn't yet have support for ext4, so yes, /boot has to be ext3. anaconda enforces this restriction, too. we focused more on ext4 stability, fixing oopses & corruptions, and worried less about /boot, for now. Next release should have it. -ERic > > Regards from > Montreal > > > > Leslie Satenstein >

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server error
by reemacrasta＠yahoo.com 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hi , I am Reema . Have trouble in sending mails on outlook. we are using fedora 9 as mail server. on the outlook when we configure new email it gives the error "The connection to the server couldnot be found mail.csindiasteel.co.in" is now offline. Reema Crasta --- On Thu, 5/28/09, net foss <netfoss(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: net foss <netfoss(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 11:25 AM On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing a quick survey for software that you use on a regular basis > that is not available via the Fedora repository. Software that you > suggest should be free and open source, free of patent and other legal > issues. > > Tell me the home page of the software and give me a brief description on > what it does. Bonus points if you can see in Google for "software-name > fedora package review" to figure it if it is already in the Fedora > package review queue. If you know of RPM packages in other distributions > for the software your are suggesting, that information is useful as well. > > > Rahul network simulator ns-2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/ Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. Ns provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks. There are old RPMs for PLD. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2325036/com/ns-2.27-7.i386.rpm.… -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

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pulseaudio capability question
by Tom Horsley 30 May '09

30 May '09

In the quest to find something useful pulseaudio can do for me, I'm wondering if it can do more than just volume when it is mixing several audio sources? I would love to learn I can insert an output filter to use ffmpeg to do on the fly conversion of all my audio to something that can be sent to the SP/DIF optical output on my motherboard. Then, while it is at it, accept already encoded audio streams from a DVD I'm playing and bypass the ffmpeg layer for them. Now that would be useful.

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Question about whehter xinetd is still used.
by Steven W. Orr 30 May '09

30 May '09

I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server processes to be added to the inetd config. Am I missing something? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. 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

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