GNOME PDF creator
by Alex
Hi,
Can someone recommend a program to create PDF documents? I have used
convert from imagemagik, but would really like something easier to use
to create a PDF document from a set of JPG files, for example.
Thanks,
Alex
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13 years, 9 months
Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
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13 years, 9 months
oowriter won't execute as user
by Mickey
FC13/KDE
oowriter will not execute as user, but it will execute as Root.
$ ls -al oo*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oobase
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oocalc
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oodraw
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 35 Aug 14 11:14 ooffice
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 44 Aug 14 11:14 ooimpress
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oomath
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 ooviewdoc
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 43 Aug 14 11:14 oowriter
13 years, 9 months
Creating an audio CD
by JD
The man page for wodim (aka cdrecord) says:
To copy an audio CD in the most accurate way, first run
icedax dev=/dev/cdrom -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav
and then run
wodim dev=/dev/cdrw -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav
The icedax command produced the .wav files and the .inf files.
However, I get the following error from wodim:
wodim: No tracks specified. Need at least one.
Usage: wodim [options] track1...trackn
Use wodim -help
to get a list of valid options.
Use wodim blank=help
to get a list of valid blanking options.
Use wodim dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive
to get a list of drive specific options.
Use wodim dev=help
to get a list of possible SCSI transport specifiers.
So if the man page is in error, has anyone else done this a different
way and made it work?
13 years, 9 months
OT: linux clone() and errno
by Terry Horsnell
Apologies for the OT query - if you know a better place to ask, please tell me.
If I use clone() to create a new thread in a process, the child thread has
the same errno as the parent. Is there any way round this, or do I have to
move to pthreads?
Cheers,
Terry
13 years, 9 months
Digital photo frame with WiFi
by Timothy Murphy
I'd like to show the output of a remote web-cam
on a digital photo frame in my house,
hopefully connected to my Fedora server by WiFi.
I wonder if anyone experience of, or recommendation for, such a thing?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 9 months
OT - Command line manipulation of sound files
by Robert
I attacked the seemingly simply task of producing an audio CD from a
collection of MP3 files and have concluded that it's not as easy as it
sounds. UNLESS GUI front ends are used! I would much rather stick with
CLI because scripting works better that way.
I decided that the first step must create a .wav file for each .mp3. I
found many scripts to do that; kept coming back to the very simple
mpg123 -w outfile.wav infile.mp3
That has worked fine for all the mp3 files I've given it, producing .wav
files that play properly with the command
play outfile.wav
Further, the .wav file will be played properly by VLC Player AND if
chosen by k3b as a file to be written to an audio CD, that CD will play
fine in the original factory CD player in my '98 Chevy pickup.
BUT I have spent most of today finding and trying, then rejecting
command-line solutions for writing to CD.
From http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/
I find this one
cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=5,0,0 -dao -audio -swab *.wav
Which yields cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '$first_file.wav'
Then, from
http://www.pallier.org/ressources/linux_howtos/linux_howto.html#tth_sEc24 we
have
cdrecord dev=5,0,0 -pad speed=0 -audio *.wav
Which doesn't work, either.
Again, I have no problem with k3b EXCEPT that I must manually select
which songs to burn to the CD rather than let a script do it ... and
surprise me.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
13 years, 9 months
Re: Suspend "lid switch" & NetworkManager
by d p
> > > On 09/01/2010 04:36:06 PM, dp wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I find that the following update causes suspend/resume to fail:
> > > >
> > > >
> > ==========================================================================
> > > > Updating:
> > > > NetworkManager i686 1:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13
> > > > NetworkManager-glib i686 1:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13
> > > > NetworkManager-gnome i686 1:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13
> > > >
> > > >
> > ==========================================================================
> > > >
> > > > The suspend appears to happen normally, but resume seems to
> > > > do
> > very
> > > > little, and ends with a blank screen. I think it makes no
> > > > entry
> > in
> > > > "messages". I haven't noticed anyone else reporting this.
> > > >
> > > > The laptop is Dell 9400:
> > > > Nvidia 7900GS, Kernel 6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE
> > >
> > > retest with the 6.34 kernel.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion. It still fails with:
> >
> >
> > 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686.PAE
> > NetworkManager-0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13.i686
> >
> > Perhaps I should add that it is using nouveau and no xorg.conf.
>
> xorg.conf is pretty much redundant these days.
>
> You need to do some diagnosis with submitting a Bugzilla report as
> your goal or, hopefully, finding the problem. With regard to the
> report, heep in mind that the better the evidence, the more likely
> you are to get a fix.
>
> For starters, have a look at /var/log/pm-suspend.log. The actions
> taken in suspending and resuming are recorded there. Look for actions
> that are not recorded as 'success' or 'not applicable'. Towards the
> end, if everything is working, you should see something like:
>
> Thu Sep 2 14:32:17 PDT 2010: performing suspend
> Thu Sep 2 16:21:02 PDT 2010: Awake.
> Thu Sep 2 16:21:02 PDT 2010: Running hooks for resume
>
> You might also have a look at
> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/power/basic-pm-
> debugging.txt
>
> Good luck.
>
> Geoff. Thanks again for your help.
>
> Before the update to NetworkManager, pm-suspend looks fairly
> straightforward, with the "resume" section starting with the
> line showing date, time, and the word "Awake".
>
> After the update the suspend is identical, but the resume
> section is completely missing. Not even the Awake comment!
>
> That makes it difficult for me to do anything.
>
> Dave
>
As this thread seems to have moved on to general problems, with little
relevance to my original fault, I'll stop here after mentioning that
updating to NetworkManager-0.8.1-6.git20100831.fc13.i686 from
updates-testing fixed it.
Many thanks again, Geoff.
13 years, 9 months
Heads up re: Users of RalinkTech Chipsets
by JD
Hi All,
Kernel 2.6.35 now supports
RT2860
RT2870
RT2872
RT2883
RT3070
RT3071
RT3090
RT3390
RT3572
The device will be wlan0 instead of ra0
I just downloaded
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.35.3.tar.bz2
and built it and booted it.
It found my Ralink 2860 based mini-pci and
all is super-well.
You will need to modify your /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
and replace ra0 with wlan0
Once you do that, you will need to System->Administration->Network
and activate wlan0, and save it.
That should create the ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
and should also create hard links to it in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices
and in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
(unless of course these links are no longer needed).
If you had set up your wifi with a fixed ip address, you will need to
set that up too.
Once done, then
sudo ifup wlan0
and you are up and running.
I have so far discovered that these rtx00 drivers are driving
the card much much better than ralinktech's own driver.
For example, the signal to noise ratio is increased by a factor of 10!!!
No kidding!!! Factor of 10!
i.e. signal strength went from around 5 or 6 to 60!!!
Enjoy.
13 years, 9 months
