users April 2011

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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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Wireless adaptor DWL G-122 E1 /Fedora14 &Intel pentium(r)dual 3.00Ghz
by Vicenç Meĺendez 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

Dear users members, I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB. Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0 I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware adaptors with no results. Any help is welcome. Kind regards Vicenc Melendez ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2007 Jazztel - Jazz Telecom, S.A.U. http://www.jazztel.com Antes de imprimir este e-mail piense bien si es necesario hacerlo. Dear users members, I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB. Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0 I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware adaptors with no results.

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X server in F14 horribly slow
by JD 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

After upgrading to F14, switching from one workspace to another is excruciatingly slow!! I am a gnome user. Can this be attributed to Gnome or to the X server or to the ATI Radeon driver?

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Boot loader after upgrade
by Adam Tong 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hi, I upgraded my fedora 12 to 13 and then F13 to F14. I used the instructions for the desktop version in these two pages: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-from-fedora-12-to-fedora-13-deskto… http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-from-fedora-13-to-fedora-14-deskto… Which are basically the same for both upgrades. Now in the boot loader I have 3 choices: F14, F13 and Other which is windoze. I can boot from both F13 and F14, they work properly. F13 desktop is the same know as F14 but when I check the version in terminal (uname -a), I get F13. I'm not sure what I did wrong. Is there anyway to keep only F14 and get rid of F13? Thank you

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Optimising transmission
by Suvayu Ali 25 May '11

25 May '11

Hi everyone, Lately I am noticing that despite reasonably low network activity, my network access speeds go down whenever transmission is seeding many torrents even if the upload bandwidth usage has been limited to 30Kbps. Pausing some of the seeding torrents usually resolves the issue. I also found that often the upload rate transmission actually uses is much higher (~50Kbps) than the set limit of 30Kbps. Is the extra bandwidth required to negotiate with peers or other related tasks? Does anyone have any pointers on how I can optimise transmission so that it doesn't slow down my internet? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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ecryptfs and password
by ssc1478 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hi, I'm new to Fedora - been using Ubuntu for years. I just installed Fedora 14 to my laptop and selected to encrypt /home. When I boot, I have to enter the password for the encrypted directory. Did I set it up wrong? I didn't expect to have to enter the password at boot but instead thought the login password would be enough. Thanks! Phil

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fed 15 beta + gnome 3 works nice, but ...
by Alexander Volovics 12 May '11

12 May '11

I posted the following mail to gnome-list(a)gnome.org. The person who replied suggested that some of my items where 'theming' issues and as such the responsibility of the distro. Can somebody 'in the know' at Fedora comment. Exploring Gnome 3 under Fedora 15 beta. So far: very nice to work with, great usability, but it could do with some more configurability options. (I am making the following remarks under the proviso that I do not know if the standard (upstream) Gnome 3 is included in Fedora 15 beta and wat Fedora has contributed to the mix). Are there any plans to increase desktop configurability in Gnome 3. For example: - I would like to be able to change the color of the top bar The lid of my laptop is a shiny black and the addition of the black colored top bar gives the desktop an even more funereal appearance (and makes the bar hard to see/read). - I would like to be able to REMOVE icons from applications overviews under 'Applications' in the 'Activities overview'. First I would like to remove ALL icons from the 'All' category. * This overview is not really necessary because the same icons are included under the other categories 'System Tools', 'Accessories', 'Graphics', etc. * Furthermore given the absurd and unhandy 16:9 laptop screens you have to scroll to see them all so having all icons available does not really save time/work. * Finding a particular icon among this plethora of icons is hardly easy. * Given the large size and the sometimes brash colors and non-uniform design of the icons makes this desktop full of large blobs not very aesthetically pleasing. Second I would like to 'prune' the icons listed under the categories retaining only the icons of the apps I use regularly (possibly putting some of these 'pruned' icons in some 'Other' category). - I would like to change the 'top bar' to an 'under bar' and have the notifications pop up at the top (and why do pop ups and notifications need to have a black background). Personally I find these 'wishes' very reasonable and not detracting from the design and usability of Gnome 3. PS Who designs/creates the icons/icon themes. I find the icons (too) big, brash, glaring and sometimes downright ugly with no consideration for the overall effect. (for example the 'Games' icons). It would be much nicer if they were created with an overall effect in mind using compatible colors and forms (say a sleek blue/silver theme, uniformly applied). PS If configuration options as specified above or comparable are planned for updates or Gnome 3.1 then I would be even more happy with Gnome 3. If not, is it possible to put forward things like the above as 'suggestions' for the design team and what is the best possible place for this. NB I can not and do not code myself. Alexander

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