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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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Anyone got three monitors working?
by thomas cameron 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy All - I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital video port. It works well, I get accelerated X and wobbly windows and all that silliness. Guilty pleasure: I like eye candy. I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff. I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent prices, if I can either replace my single card with two identical two-port X1 cards, or just add a single X1 video card to what I already have and get triple head. Has anyone done this? Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7SknEACgkQmzle50YHwaCHXgCgh5OPtqXsUZnn5F6hnuTvJYH6 0Q4An29A0m4znOWxWIgni3wv/l8zCAyr =nFLx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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pdfedit for Fedora 16
by Cristian Sava 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi all, We needed pdfedit for Fedora 16 and is not avaiable anymore. It is present in Fedora <= 15 It was easy to rebuild pdfedit-0.4.5-4.fc16.x86_64.rpm and it works well. So the question: why was it discontinued for Fedora users? For those that need it here are the steps: 1 - get pdfedit-0.4.5-4.fc15.src.rpm 2 - extract from it pdfedit-4.5.4.tar.bz2 pdfedit.spec and pdfedit.desktop 3 - follow the steps shown in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#SPEC_example and install the packages needed for building process Good luck! C. Sava

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pm-powersave true not running /etc/pm/power.d/00script
by Pedro Francisco 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi! Running "su -c 'pm-powersave true'" (or false) on Fedora 16 seems not to run /etc/pm/power.d/00script , which according to the man page seems it is expected to. 00script is marked executable. Any ideas why it is not running? /var/log/pm-powersave.log is a empty file. Running /etc/pm/power.d/00script manually works .

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F14: X in runlevel 4
by Frank Elsner 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Hello all, I want to use runlevel 4 (same as runlevel 5 but with a small difference in networking). But how to start X in runlevel 4? Currently it starts only in runlevel 5. Any pointer(s) welcome. --Frank Elsner

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Can't download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hi. The EPEL repo is very helpful, thanks for it! I can no longer download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org. # rpm -ihv http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch… Retrieving http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch… error: skipping http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch… - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error warning: u 0x1f5ebe20 ctrl 0x2010e500 nrefs != 0 (download.fedoraproject.org http) # Could you please fix this? Thanks and congratulations for moving out from redhat.com and to your own domain. Best, Aleksey

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how to start fvwm from the console command line?
by stan 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

I'm looking at alternative window managers to Gnome fallback, the only Gnome my old hardware and work preference will support. The more I investigate fvwm, the more it seems like a nice stable, extremely configurable solution to my problem. The modular concept is great, and the ability to program behavior in a scripting language and interface seemlessly to the wm seems like a nice idea too. Sure, there is a learning curve, and no GUI configuration, but I can come to my perfect setup, and won't need to worry about dependency on the latest bee someone has in their bonnet about what constitutes a modern GUI. Well, at least until I updgrade my hardware, and maybe not even then. There is a problem though. How do I start fvwm from a console? What is the command for fvwm corresponding to startx or startxfce4? I found XSESSION=fvwm2 startx -- :1 vt11 and that works, but seems to just start the regular Gnome fallback mode that startx by itself does. Maybe this is so well known that no one bothers documenting it, but I couldn't find it on the web. Anyone have an answer?

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Gnome-Shell
by David Quigley 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Is there a list anywhere of supported hardware for gnome-shell? I've tried it on 3 computers so far and none of them work. The first was VMWare which I've seen isn't supported so I wrote that off. The second was a dell optiplex 790 with on-board intel accelerated graphics. The final one is an optiplex 960 with a Radeon HD 3450 in it. Is there something wrong with the setup or is gnome-shell really that selective about hardware even after its been in two Fedora releases? Dave

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