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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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What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB

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oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Dear List, I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and Windows. Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow video conferencing with Fedora. Thanks much -- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.net

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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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No wireless (waiting for authorization) after awake from suspend
by Gene Smith 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

F15 on new HP dv7-6195 (i7/sandy bridge) cannot regain wireless connection after awake from suspend. In KDE, I see notification "waiting for authorization" and then a "key" icon appears over the wireless icon in tray. In gnome, a dialog pops up with my wireless key (correctly filled in) for me to confirm. After confirming, it keeps popping back up every 30 seconds or so. Never asks for my password, just wireless key. It is set to be stored in encrypted file. Wired ethernet connection works fine before and after suspend and wireless works fine only before suspend. I have tried rmmod / modprobe to remove / add back the wireless driver. Also, set selinux to permissive thinking it might be that type of problem. Only reboot, so far, brings wireless back. Any ideas? -gene

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KVM virtual machine transfer query
by Sanjay Arora 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Hello all I have a question. Can a kvm virtual machine, a linux or windows guest, generated of fedora, be transfered to a rhel machine and started? or vice versa? Please note, I am not talking of live migration. Just transferring files generated on one OS & running on the another? And what if hardware of the machines is different? With best regards. Sanjay.

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Reading an OpenServer hard drive with Fedora
by Bill Davidsen 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Is there a way to get at the odd SysV volume manager slices if I have access to an OS drive? The disk or partition is split into slices, sort of like a crude LVM. I need to recover the files from the disk, based on a full raw backup of the drive or the drive itself. I was hoping for a fuser implementation or so, since the extra cost networking stuff wasn't bought when the system was built. A local business depends on this, and I'm trying to help them recover. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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[F15] X server died unexpectedly
by mike lan 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hello every one I got "logged out " many times while working on KDE , looking at the logs "X server died unexpectedly" , switched to xcfe for now. wich works fine. mike

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prognosticate preupgrade?
by Beartooth 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

When I first tried F15, I managed to get it hopelessly snarled; but now I have an expendable laptop running F16 Beta with xfce, and I think I can learn to live with it. The rest of my machines all still run F14. I'm wondering what my chances would be if I ran preupgrade twice on any of them. Anybody want to venture an educated guess? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(
by Tom Horsley 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Especially when a new biosdevname package is installed and it decides the name is no longer p4p1, but is now p6p1. All the iptables rules that refer to the interface name are broken. The ifcfg-p4p1 file needs to be renamed and edited. Wasn't the theory propounded that these new names would cause less confusion? (And why was having some disks named hda0 versus sda0 confusing, so we had to change all the names to sda0? Can these two theories be made compatible? :-).

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