Does the Asus Xonar DG sound card work well in F14?
by Richard Shaw
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
12 years, 7 months
Version of packages in repository
by Luc MAIGNAN
Hi,
When I do a 'yum search', I find the packages available in repository
but not their versions (unless I do a yum install).
How to find the version of the packages without trying to install them ?
BR
12 years, 8 months
R: Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...
by antonio montagnani
>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: ibmalone(a)gmail.com
>Data: 2-set-2011 11.51
>A: "Community support for Fedora users"<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Ogg:
Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult
to use with ease, nauseating to try...
>
>On 1 September 2011 21:15, Linda
McLeod <lindavaldeen(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I love this Fedora-14, and
everything Red Hat, but Fedora-15 is a lot
>> like those vile Windows OS's..
>
>Essentially, every time I see a post like this I stop reading as soon
>as it
tries to argue that something is wrong because it's like
>Windows. Reductio ad
Gates is not a valid demonstration that something
>is undesireable and
successive attempts at doing it commonly vary
>between 'this is obscure', 'this
is oversimplified', 'this isn't
>configurable to my liking' and 'I don't like
it'. All of those on
>their own might be good reasons to object to a design or
feature and
>might be points worth discussing, but lots of people seem to thing
>that the Linux community is about Not Being Windows and that if you
>can
equate something you don't like to Windows in some way then you've
>proved that
it's undesireable. This is simply not true.
>
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For sure, Gnome 3 is far from Windows.
I suggest an easy test: install a
brand new Fedora 15 and let a Windows user start to use it (someone who never
saw a Linux system), report his experience
12 years, 8 months
Starting system logger: [FAILED]
by Michael Hennebry
To get more space in a file system,
I've been playing with partitions.
When I was done, it wouldn't boot into graphics mode.
The filling icon never got quite full.
Using function keys to get into a virtual console,
I noticed lots of messages.
Some indicated success and some ended with [FAILED].
The first three of the latter are
Starting system logger:
Starting irqbalance:
Starting system message bus:
Previously, /dev/sdb10 was ext4, held / and used most of its 20 GB
and /dev/sdb11 was ext4, held /var and used little ot its 20 GB.
After /dev/sdb10 was still ext4, held / and used about a quarter of its 80 GB
and /dev/sdb11 was ext3, held /var and used little of its 10 GB.
To do that, I
booted into another partition,
copied sdb11 into another directory using --preserve=all,
removed sdb11,
removed sdb10,
added sdb10, bigger starting in its old starting place,
added sdb11, making it 10 GB,
made sdb11 ext3,
labeled sdb10 and sdb11 sata400-10 and sata400-11 .
copied /var back into sdb11,
resized the filesystem on sdb10,
edited fstab to use the labels on sdb10 and sdb11 instead of UUIDs,
rebooted into sdb10, sort of.
After the first time, I rememberd that fstab still had sdb11 as ext4.
Changing it to ext3 didn't help.
fsck gives sdb10 and sdb11 clean bills of health.
How do I go about debugging this?
Going into a text virtual console gets me a login prompt that works.
demsg | less doesn't help.
Is there somewhere else I should look?
It's 4:50 A.M. in the morning.
Do you know whereyour head is?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
12 years, 8 months
sometimes my F15 doesn't boot
by Eric Doutreleau
Hi
i m using F15 with the latest updates
and from times to times my machine doesn't boot.
it seems to hang just before starting X
Fortunately i can ssh to it and i see the following thing
systemctl list-units | grep dead
getty(a)tty2.service loaded inactive dead start Getty on tty2
getty(a)tty3.service loaded inactive dead start Getty on tty3
getty(a)tty4.service loaded inactive dead start Getty on tty4
getty(a)tty5.service loaded inactive dead start Getty on tty5
getty(a)tty6.service loaded inactive dead start Getty on tty6
plymouth...t-wait.service loaded inactive dead start Wait for
Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
prefdm.service loaded inactive dead start Display Manager
getty.target loaded inactive dead start Login Prompts
How can i debug this problem?
--
Eric Doutreleau
12 years, 8 months
Gnome3: don't have anymore the language selection box and the keyboard selection box in gdm
by Eric Doutreleau
Hi
I have just installed fedora15 and therefore move to gnome3.
we have several hundreds of pc in lab environnement where 4000+ users
can log in.
There s a lot of different nationalities among these users and i have
dozens of languages installed.
In fedora 13 people could select ( after typing their login ) selecting:
the WM
The language
the keyboard
Now i have only access to the choose of WM.
Does someone know how i can get back the two other selection box?
Thanks in advance for any help
--
Eric Doutreleau
12 years, 8 months
preupgrade or netinstall from i686 to x86_64
by Robert McBroom
I don't see an option in preupgrade to go from F13 i686 to F14 x86_64.
Is it possible?
>>>
You could try but you really would not like doing it. If you have 32 bit
programs you want to continue to use, There is a "multilb" install that keeps
the ability to run such. It requires synchronizatrion of all the system code
and libraries between the x86 and x86_64. They are constantly getting out of
synchronization causing yum to fail until the offending package can be manually
brought back into sync. Ffinding your way from an upgrade of F13 to F14 then to
F14 with updates will be painful. You can keep some of your customization with
a backup of /home and anything else you want to keep. The system settings
stored in /etc are much more difficult.
If you have the disk space you could install the F14 x86_64 as a dual boot then
get the various parts of your earlier system and copy them to the new.
Robert McBroom
12 years, 8 months
how to fix rpm database
by Michael Hennebry
yum and rpm have different ideas about wether three packages are installed:
[root@localhost log]# rpm -V 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686
1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686
package 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686 is not installed
package 1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 is not installed
package 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686 is not installed
[root@localhost log]# yum install 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686
1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Setting up Install Process
Package 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package 1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
Package 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@localhost log]#
yum reinstall runs, but doesn't help.
What will.
This seems to have happened after I tried to play a
Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 10 aka
Shockwave Flash file (application/x-shockwave-flash) .
The former came from the file command, the latter from right-clicking.
The first time, right-clicking produced an offer to search for a package.
I clicked on yes .
During the install, I got a "warning" about something aborting.
Now right clicking produces an offer to open
with vnc2swf Screen Recordings Player.
It doesn't work.
A window comes up and disappears without even achieving opacity.
How do I play the file?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
12 years, 8 months
preupgrade or netinstall from i686 to x86_64
by Robert Arkiletian
I don't see an option in preupgrade to go from F13 i686 to F14 x86_64.
Is it possible?
Or is it possible with an F14 x86_64 netinstall iso disk?
--
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
12 years, 8 months
