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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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Best FOSS alternative for skype?
by Marko Vojinovic 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Ok, I just lost enthusiasm in further use of skype. Being closed source was bad enough already, but I tolerated it due to its good-enough quality, reliability and free-of-charge use for skype-to-skype calls. But now that Microsoft is taking it over, I suddenly lost faith that these good features will still be there from now on (not to mention Linux support). Thus the question: is there a FOSS VoIP app that provides roughly the same quality, reliability and free-as-in-beer service? I do know that there are such VoIP apps, but I am not familiar with the quality of service, availability and accessibility of each of those. I am willing to migrate and start persuading my existing skype contacts (which are scattered all over the globe) to migrate to a FOSS solution as well. But I cannot do that if this alternative does not provide functionality that at least matches that of skype. It has to be up to the task. So which one is on the top of the list, in your opinion? TIA, :-) Marko

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Does the Asus Xonar DG sound card work well in F14?
by Richard Shaw 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

I'm having issues with my builtin audio. At first I thought it was the new speakers I bought. I know they're not quite as my Cambridge Soundworks but the external 5.1 decoder is having issues so I figured it was time. I hear a high tinny noise and assumed it was the cheap amplifier but after plugging in some old but nice SGI headphones I still heard it. To that end I'm in the market for an inexpensive sound card but don't want to go too cheap and get something equivalent to my onboard audio. I found the Asus Xonar DG[1] for a decent price but it uses the CMI8786 which is supported in alsa 1.0.24 (which I have) OR kernel 2.6.38, which I don't. I'm really hoping the OR is right and it's not supposed to be an AND. Interestingly enough this chip doesn't appear to have internal volume controls so I'll have to rely on PulseAudio. Anyone have this card working (well)? Even though it's not a big investment I'd like to know someone has it working. Richard

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f15+Gnome3: how to put on desktop an applet for see cpu and network usage
by Dario Lesca 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, on my f14 I had place on my panel the system monitor, witch show me the CPU and network usage. How to do that into F15+Gnome3? Many thanks. -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>

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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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Fedora 14 cron sometimes executes multiple times
by lhp1 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

http://old.nabble.com/file/p31742754/anomoly2011-05-30.rtf anomoly2011-05-30.rtf Every now and then cron runs multiple times on Fedora 14. This is a new server and very little is running on it, only my colleageue and myself have jobs running. This does not happen all the time which makes it even harder to figure out why. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Fedora-14-cron-sometimes-executes-multiple-times-tp31… Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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