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linux desktop managment
by Gregory Machin 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi. I'm looking for an interface / way to manage a large number of Linux desktops. They are mixed os , fedora and Ubuntu mostly. We are using likewise open to ma age user athentication . I need centralise package managment and patching. I need to centralise deployment of printers , print servers are windows. Need to have control of desktop configuration. I have looked at spacewalk but it doesn't support ubuntu. Any suggestions ? thanks G

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pulseaudio command line control?
by Tom Horsley 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

By running "gnome-control-center sound" I can get a GUI app in which I can set a device profile to "off" so that pulse will stop fooling with it, and I am then free to talk to it directly with alsa to do special things like ac3 passthrough to spdif. My question is: Can I do the same thing with a command line tool so I can modify the pulse settings in scripts and set them back to normal after (for instance) playing a DVD?

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OT: grep by sound and grep by image
by Hiisi 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hi, list! Sorry if this thread interrupts the hottest discussions about gnome3 and systemd. I'm just curious. There's a visgrep utility [1] that allows one to find images inside of images. I wonder is there anything similar to google image search where one could provide a pattern image and search for similar images (i.e. not the exact occurrences of the pattern, but similar to it with a desired accuracy)? Anything of the sort for sound patterns? It doesn't seem like a pure fantasy. The program might analyse some kind of spectrum of the pattern and compare it to its database. The latter could be updated once per week or manually (by calling updateimgdb script). Any thoughts? REFERENCES 1. yum info xautomation 2. http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- Spandex is a privilege, not a right.

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Disable GDM "ready" sound
by Konstantin Svist 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Every time I boot my laptop, I'm greeted with an annoying "BONG!" sound (/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga) Is there a "proper" way to turn it off? If not, I'll have to remove the file..

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Re: iMac on my Lan can't see my printer connected via usb to my linux box [SOLVED]
by Jackson Byers 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

the advice from Ted Roche worked: I finally figured out I had to run that command from the iMac, not from f14box: on the iMac I ran cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups then after futzing with the iMac Print & Fax preference pane in the System Preferences window. I can finally see my f14 printer from the iMac. and printing from the iMac works. All of this days of pain because of that change in OS-X. Save me from future OS-X changes. Thanks again to Ted Roche and this list! Jack

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Re: iMac on my Lan can't see my printer connected via usb to my linux box
by Jackson Byers 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Ted Roche responded (http://localhost:631/help/sharing.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started&QUERY=#AUTO_CU…) and there I found a note that says: "Note: > Due to user interface changes in Mac OS X 10.5, CUPS shared > printers will not automatically appear in the print dialog. Instead, > you must first run the following command to enable CUPS browsing on > your system: > cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups > Then choose each of the CUPS shared printers you want to see in > the print dialog by adding them, either from the Add Printer... item > in the print dialog or from the Print & Fax preference pane in the > System Preferences window." > I don't know if that's true for your version of IOS, but perhaps it will help. Ted, thanks for the link It reads as if it might be what I need. But, much is not clear to me, I thought the whole point of IPP Sharing was that you didnt have to do anything on the client machines, even Macs. Am I supposed to run cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups on my f14 box Server? or on the imac client? I tried "cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups" on my f14 no change, still cant see the printer from my imac I also don't understand " then choose each of the CUPS shared printers you want to see in the print dialog by adding them, either from the Add Printer... item in the print dialog or from the Print & Fax preference pane in the System Preferences window" is this meant to be done on my f14 server? or the imac client? On my f14 I don't see a " Print & Fax preference pane in the System Preferences window" If it means choosing from the imac print dialog, it seems impossible because my entire problem is my imac cant see the printer to choose it. I haven't felt this dumb re linux in a long time. Jack

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Re: How to change from gnome to KDE and back?
by Vinny Onelli 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

> Vinny Onelli wrote: > > > I did select the KDE also > > during the installation. at the present time I have gnome running. > > You have all of KDE already installed. Simply log out and select KDE on the > kdm selector and log back in. gdm should also give you that option. > > If it doesn't work, then try this: > > edit or create the file /etc/sysconfig/dekstop and have only these lines in > it: > > DESKTOP="KDE" > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > Make sure to run: > > restorecon -v '/etc/sysconfig/desktop' > > after editing, so that there will be no problems with selinux. Both editing > the file and running restorecon must be done as root. > > What this file does is to switch your system from using gdm to using kdm. > > Then, also make sure you have this file in /home/yourusername/.dmrc. It > contains only these lines: > > [Desktop] > Session=default > > Since this is in your directory, you don't need to be root to edit the file. > > Now, reboot the system and allow it to use kdm to log in. You will see a > selector that allows you to choose kde or gnome. > > To return back to your former setup, reverse these changes. > Thank you very much, the direction were perfect and every thing worked.

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Vote to extend F14 security updates
by Robert Arkiletian 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released? Hopefully by then gnome3 will be fully baked. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada

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Getting Intel 4965 wireless working in F15 ?
by linux guy 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Any quick tips on how one would get wireless working on a laptop with the Intel 4965 device on it in F15 ? $ yum list installed \*wl\* Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages broadcom-wl.noarch 5.60.48.36-1.fc13 @rpmfusion-nonfree iwl3945-firmware.noarch 15.32.2.9-5.fc15 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686 iwl4965-firmware.noarch 228.61.2.24-3.fc15 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686 kmod-wl.i686 5.60.48.36-2.fc15.7 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates kmod-wl-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686.i686 5.60.48.36-2.fc15.7 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates ppl-pwl.i686 0.11.2-1.fc15 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686 python-iwlib.i686 0.1-6.fc15 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686 $ lsmod | grep wl iwlagn 229826 0 iwlcore 126002 1 iwlagn mac80211 201962 2 iwlagn,iwlcore cfg80211 116073 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211 $ yum list \*4965\* Installed Packages iwl4965-firmware.noarch 228.61.2.24-3.fc15 Thanks !

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Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)
by CS DBA 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hi All; I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) ) I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf setup: /rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau/ I did the update which installed/updated the following: ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be updated ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 1:280.13-2.fc14 set to be updated However when I reboot the system boots to a blank screen, and even the previous kernel boots to a blank screen. I tried installing akmod-nvidia but get the same results I've restored the system back to before the update for now... Thoughts? Thanks in advance -- --------------------------------------------- Kevin Kempter - Constent State A PostgreSQL Professional Services Company www.consistentstate.com ---------------------------------------------

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