An mp3 ripping yarn
by David Fletcher
I've given my son an mp3 player for Christmas and of course I would like him
to be able to rip his CDs to mp3 files using Sound Juicer on his computer not
mine.
Yes I know that you can also get portable Ogg Vorbis players. I saw some at
Staples this afternoon. Unfortunately they're more than double the price of
the MP3 player I bought together with a 1G memory card.
On my computer which is running FC3 I can rip to mp3 just fine, using the
notes I compiled from the results of a couple of google searches:-
<MP3NOTES>
1) Put the following into /etc/yum.repos.d/Freshrpms.repo (might need to
change the first line to reflect the FC issue number:-
[freshrpms-fc-3]
name=Fedora Project $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/fresh...
2) Import the GPG key:-
rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
3) Install the plugins:-
yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
Now it should work!
Also might need to use yum install xmms-mp3 to get this working too.
</MP3NOTES>
I tried doing the same on his computer which is running FC4(replacing
[freshrpms-fc-3] with [freshrpms-fc-4]). Everything seems to install OK but
there is no mp3 option to select in the version 2.10.1 sound juicer on FC4.
My FC3 installation has sound juicer version 0.5.14.
Now my first question:- Has the mp3 selection been deliberately compiled out
of version 2.10.1 to prevent users ripping to mp3 at all even though the
plug-in is available elsewhere?
Second question:- If this is so, is it being put back into FC5?
Something I found out this morning is that if I insert an audio CD and let it
mount, I can then open it using Konqueror and browse to various folders, one
of which is called "mp3", containing objects which when dragged to the hard
drive causes Konqueror to rip tracks from the CD to mp3 files. Very nice, I
thought.
This operation can be configured using the Sound & Multimedia - Audio CDs
section of the KDE Control Centre.
Now my third question:- I cannot find the Audio CDs section in the Control
Centre on the FC4 machine, and the same audio CD won't mount. Is it supposed
to be there? If it is supposed to be there, the only explanation I can think
of is that perhaps the CD drive in this machine is an old one that does not
support some required functionality? If this is possible, can anybody please
suggest the age at which a CD drive might be too old? I can always go out to
the shops and buy a new one, but I'd like to feel reasonably sure that I'm
spending the money for a good reason.
Finally, something else I tried was to yum remove sound-juicer from FC4, and
replace it using an FC3 rpm from one of the mirrors. I also had to replace a
couple of libraries using rpms from the same place to get it to install. That
version under FC4 gave an error message. I can't remember the exact error
message but it was something to do with not being able to access the CD
drive, and a google search indicated that cdparanoia might be implicated in
this problem. At this point I thought sod it and just put the FC4 machine
back as it was.
But is there any possibility that cdparanoia was simply getting upset about
the CD drive itself, for the same reason that Audio CDs doesn't show up in
the Control Centre?
Many thanks to anybody who reads all this, and many many thanks to anybody who
can help.
Dave Fletcher
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18 years, 5 months
Games
by Ali Helmy
Hey,
Aside from being a computer engineering student, being an open-source
fanatic, being a Fedora enthusiast, and being anything else, I am a
deep-down Hard-core computer gamer... I love video games, and it is
impossible to continue my life normally without them...
So is there some way I can find good games (not just 10-20MB crap) that I
can play on my FC machine? Or do I have to keep FC for work only on my
laptop, and the AWFUL WinXP for gaming on my gaming machine?
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A. Helmy
18 years, 5 months
Weird hardware: how to check it?!
by Strong
Several weeks ago my USB controller stopped working: it's "seen" system
- for I can see
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
in /var/log/dmesg yet it does not function - for it reflects not on
plugging a device in. Then I bought a separate controller - and it
works now just fine. But! Today I needed my built-in network card to
connect to another machine - and I was not able to make it working... I
compiled all the drivers for it (10Mbit-1000Mbit - and I have 1Gbit
one) but the device like /dev/eth0 didn't appear although I see
eth0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter
PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State
in /var/log/dmesg. But I suppose it can be the same case like with
built-in USB controller: the device is seen but does not function...
So, my question is: how I can check my hardware? Including that bad USB
controller as a test for that checker?! - Thank You.
--
Best regards,
Strong.
18 years, 5 months
/dev/null strangeness
by akonstam@trinity.edu
I have a FC4 system that every time it reboots the permissions on
/dev/null change from 0666 to 0660. This causes boot errors and the
system will not boot.
That seemed to me to be a udev error so I looked in:
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
and the mode of null seems correct.
Am I looking in the wrong place or what can I do to fix this problem?
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-- W.C. Fields
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: (210)-999-7484
18 years, 5 months
is evolution really dependent on spamassassin?
by Tim
Hi,
I don't use spamassassin, I find it more of a hindrance than a help, so
I wanted to remove it.
yum remove spamassassin
...[snip]...
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
spamassassin i386 3.0.4-2.fc4 installed 1.8 M
Removing for dependencies:
evolution i386 2.2.3-2.fc4 installed 24 M
And trying "rpm -e spamassassin" produces the same sort of response.
Surely this is a stupid dependency? It's supposedly *optional* whether
you use anti-spam filtering in Evolution (I've never allowed it's junk
mail checking), why should it *have* to be present?
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18 years, 5 months
Yum errors reported by cron
by Philip Prindeville
I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
daily basis. Was wondering what the fix for this was.
>/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
>
>//var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
>This site is a Mirror for:
>^
>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
>Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml
>
>
18 years, 5 months
Problems printing with SMB + cups after update
by C.F. Scheidecker Antunes
Hello all,
I have setup my machine to accept print jobs from other machines
locally. Everything was working great until I've upgraded my FC4 with
new packages. I am now having that NT_STATUS_ACCESS_ERROR from my client
computer trying to print.
Here are my config files. Could anyone point me the error?
Thanks,
C.F.
/etc/samba/smb.conf
[laserjet1200]
comment = Laserjet 1200
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = yes
printable = yes
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
<Location /printers/laserjet1200>
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny From All
#Allow From 127.0.0.1
#Allow From 192.168.1.*
#AuthType None
</Location>
Browsing On
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowseOrder Deny,Allow
BrowseAllow from @LOCAL
Listen 127.0.0.1:631
18 years, 5 months
RPM's for creating/enabling TLS/SSL certificates and enabling sendmail milters
by Philip Prindeville
I was wondering if there would be any point to doing some .noarch RPM's
that could be installed individually to enable additional functionality that
isn't turned on out-of-the-box.
For instance, I wanted to use IMAP and SMTP with SSL (so that I can
connect to my mail server on the road, but not have to worry about leaving
it open to spam relaying)... And turn on milters as well (there are HELO
checks that sendmail doesn't do on it's own, but I'd like to add... either
through hacking the sources, or via milters).
I, like a lot of people, haven't ever enabled or configured either of these,
but I figure it shouldn't be too hard to capture the steps and then express
them in RPM's.
Alexander: can you work with me on this? I.e. provide some guidance and
reality checks?
Thanks,
-Philip
18 years, 5 months