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Re: Re: Microphone does not work with Skype
by Fernando Lozano 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi there, >Thanks to all respondents! I have meanwhile changed something on the >audio settings and got Skype working fine. However, I changed >something afterwards, and now the microphone does not work anymore >with Skype. Is there some program to test the microphone? One of my machines only works after I use alsamixer in text mode to enable and adjust mic. I have also to uncheck skype config option "allow skype to set audio levels" or something like this. But I have to do this ony once for each Fedora install. To test if the mic works outside skype, try the "audio recorder" from gnome-media-aps []s, Fernando Lozano

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How to open fedora without user password
by Biraj Karmakar 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

One of my friend forgot his user password.He is using fel 15 .So, he cannot access his fedora system.Please tell me how to do solve the problem. -- Biraj Karmakar https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Biraj Blog : http://birajkarmakar.wordpress.com/ Twitter : http://twitter.com/birajkarmakar Facebook : http://facebook.com/biraj.karmakar e-mail : biraj(a)fedoraproject.org

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empathy - is it for real?
by Dan Irwin 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi list, This is a bit of a rant about empathy. This has to be the buggiest, least user friendly application on Fedora. And we choose it as our default IM client. Why? I did a quick scan of the list, and I don't see much traffic about empathy. Surely It's not just me. Over several successive versions (Since Fedora 10), empathy has never "just worked" or "worked right" on my laptop. It will crash. Modules will crash. People will complain that I am signed in and ignoring them, when I don't appear to have empathy even running. While I have persisted with it, empathy seems exceptionally bad in Fedora 16. I have now removed all accounts from empathy, and gone back to pidgin. Result? IM which works, behaves, and seems sane. I think the concept of empathy/telepathy is great. The implementation is about as far from great as one could get. Surely I am not the only one who has these experiences and thoughts. Thanks for reading. Regards, Dan

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Strangness of Firefox 10.0.1 in F16
by Aaron Konstam 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

This just started happening to me. When I login and open Firefox 10.0.1 it starts loading my homepage www.google.com. Then the loading stops and I get a message: The connection was interrupted The connection wwto www.google/cpm was interrupted while the page was loading. It offers me te option to Try Again by clicking a box on screen and the home page is loaded. Can anyone explain what is going on and how to stop it? -- ======================================================================= Hacker's Quicky #313: Sour Cream -n- Onion Potato Chips Microwave Egg Roll Chocolate Milk ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux
by Alchemist 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-…

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During boot keyboard not working for passphrase
by Patrick Lists 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi all, On a box with F16 x86_64 I have two disks in RAID1 (Linux software raid) and an encrypted root and swap partition. The box has a wireless Logitech K520 USB keyboard. In the past this worked fine: I boot the box, select a kernel if required, the kernel boots, when asked I enter the passphrase with the wireless USB keyboard and F16 boots fine into GNOME and I can enter my login password fine with the wireless USB keyboard. Now not so good: I boot the box, I can use the wireless USB keyboard to select a kernel, the kernel boots, I get asked for the passphrase, my wireless USB keyboard no longer works, I attach a wired USB keyboard, enter the passphrase and then F16 boots fine. Once I get to the GNOME login screen I can use the wireless USB keyboard fine again. So during boot my wireless USB keyboard stops working. This happens with all currently installed kernels: 3.2.3, 3.2.5 and 3.2.6. The wireless USB keyboard used to work fine when asked for the passphrase. Anyone have a suggestion how I can fix this? Thanks! Patrick

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Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE
by Phil Dobbin 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I've been using Fedora 14 (i686) on an old IBM Think Pad T42 after swapping from Debian Squeeze & am really enjoying the experience. Fedora 14 having reached EOL, I'm looking to upgrade but at present I'm running Gnome 2 & 16 uses Gnome 3. Not only will Gnome 3 not run on my machine but from what I've seen of it, I don't really care to use it. So I'm looking at using KDE. The Fedora 16 Live CD (KDE) runs fine on the Think Pad & it seems a far better option than Gnome 3 in failback so my question is: 1). Is there anyway I can upgrade via Yum from Gnome on 14 -> Kde on 16 without unduly breaking anything? I've tried Googling for an answer but it's quite difficult phrasing it correctly to get a vaild response. I've got my /home/ folder backed up both locally & remotely so if I have to re-install will there be any conflicts on that score if I attempt to rsync from the back up (which I imagine there probably will)? Thanks for any help you can give & please be patient for a response as I'm on digest delivery. Cheers, Phil... - -- But masters, remember that I am an ass. Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: Â§auto-key-locate cert pka ldap hkp://keys.gnupg.net Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPT/jKAAoJEKuJdOaOnmMJfSkH/3DYjQTXLcmhNVcTSIROL+7I ZAPOZz7/Fo9gVfaH2+YGLTxpJSLEcXAYJhElTQgH269LOfwvFuP+wVnepF+/rFKs keGg6zWXZ6GVpM4EHk8vIs9a4g9Kn53KuafPP7v/imMMvbbm/JIL4usZfoKc29Iv 6Ro3RNwe0Q9Q+TOJTlTX3v2hpEjKKZANk59j2Ew5JubQmob9TGS26sfCNvaskO2T xIMvb7nlGis/R9y9pwK9TIt2EwQ/EFROk+EW/1EsdgDMaMjMUhR9tZcudBzNBiT3 eZHi2WdaerK7JJiC9qnV6BspYFx6MR2MpwsLlWEWN+/j9v0Vm7Ea+kQz7lCksjE= =s5+G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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F16 installation problems
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

I have tried to do a network install of Fedora 16 multiple times, but it has failed every time! More to the point I also discovered that the anaconda install ignores changes I requested for the partition layout. Excuse me for suggesting this, but Fedora 15 and 16 releases seem to be the most troublesome releases ever, even exceeding the problems of the transition to KDE 4. In fact I'm beginning to lose patience with Fedora and will probably look at switching to another distro, so all suggestions of an alternative stable KDE distribution are welcome. cpp4ever

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Fedora 16 and Software Raid 10 on install
by Aero Maxx D 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hello Users, Could someone help me with a Software RAID 10 setup on Fedora 16 with disk druid, as trying to do it on a brand new install. If I chose 1 hard drive at install I can see how this is setup, but I am having difficulty knowing what to change to make it into a software raid, have googled this extensively and tried to understand various guides without any luck, dont follow what there saying as finding them a bit vague on some details. VolGroup 1144192 lv_root 51200 / ext4 lv_home 229472 /home ext4 lv_swap 4992 swap sda sda1 1 BIOS Boot sda2 500 /boot ext4 sda3 285686 VolGroup physical volume (LVM) Ideally I would like to be able to take a drive out should it fail and replace it with another and for it all to be ok. I believe this would be possible with raid 10. Thanks in Advance.

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gphoto2 image directory -
by Bob Goodwin 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Can someone tell me how/where to set where the gphoto2 image files are stored? I don't want them dumped to /home/bobg/. I can find all kinds of information except this most basic need. Thanks, Bob

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