KDE woes....
by Michael Comperchio
you know, sometimes I feel like I'm playing with win3.1. Every time I
touch something, the system breaks. I wanted to play with QT so I
installed via yum QT4. NOW KDE WILL NOT START....tells me that it can't
find libqt-mt-so.3. BS. It exists in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib,
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib (which the ld.so.conf.d files point to) and also
in /usr/lib64/qt4 (the directory yum install qt4 it into...) this is
very frustrating....so I'm back to GNOME....which I guess is god's way
of telling me that I'm a c programmer .... don't play with c++!!!!!
any suggestions?
Michael
17 years, 2 months
The RULE project, was: Linux for old laptop?
by M. Fioretti
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 11:41:23 AM -0400, Wade Hampton
(wadehamptoniv(a)gmail.com) wrote:
> I put knoppix on my PIII/366 laptop with 128M RAM and it is usable.
> DSL would also be a good choice. From my experience, Fedora is too
> heavy, but a while back there was the RULE project to install/run it
> on small footprint systems.
The RULE project is _still_ there. We have some problems with the
configuration and upgrade of the website but the project is alive and
the slinky installer works with FC 5.
The mailing list is also still available to get support.
Sorry for the website problems, I do hope to fix them soon.
Marco
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Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
17 years, 2 months
Re: Is there an application that...
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
"Chris Mohler" <cr33dog(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/30/07, David G. Miller <dave(a)davenjudy.org> wrote:
>
>> > Is there an application or method (e.g., command the drive to "play
>> > audio") that lets me spin an audio CD in my CDROM drive and listen via
>> > headphones plugged into the drive's audio jack?
>> >
>> > The speaker setup I have plugged into my primary desktop does not
>> > provide a bypass audio jack. Unfortunately, this means I need to become
>> > a hermit and close up my office if I want to listen to tunes while my
>> > wife watches the tube. I find the sound quality acceptable using the
>> > audio jack on the CDROM but I need a way to spin the disk and NOT have
>> > the sound come out the sound card.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dave
>>
>
> Possibly a dumb question, but does the CD-ROM have a "play button" on
> the device? IIRC, the ones with headphone jacks usually do. Also,
> check alsamixer for any muted channels (and maybe mute the channels
> for the sound card?).
>
> Just a guess,
> Chris
In a word, "no."
I seem to remember older drives having such a button but this one only
has an eject button and a volume control. Apparently the drive needs
some kind of command to just play an audio CD. I've spun the drive with
several applications with headphones plugged into the audio jack only to
get no sound out of the headphones and sound out my speaker system.
I'd think that since the drive has a volume control for the audio jack
that it's capable of doing a simple play but the question is how. I'm
wondering if there is something like hdparm or scsitape to send commands
to an IDE cdrom.
Cheers,
Dave
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-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years, 2 months
How
by Art Giles
Hi How do you open a PDF with Evince when it is not in the right cilck
menu? I can not get it to open with the open with dialog box.
Thanks
17 years, 2 months
(Wish) HTTPS support for yum
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail
Some places have freakingly paranoid networks ... I know I am inside
one - with 2MB download size limit - with port 80post/get
443tcpconnect only outbound access - theres nothing much can be done
...
although I myself know how to get through , but my friends arent able
to .. I have a local mirror for them to use, even so, our LAN is
separated into 6 segments and each segments couldnt connect directly
to each other besides through a proxy that only allows port 80
post/get (with the 2MB download/upload size limit) and port 443
tcpconnect ... so, those who are staying in a different segment than
me couldnt easily access my LAN repositories ..
currently i'm using an ugly workaround by running apache without SSL
on port 443 and installed prtunnel in those who want to use my repo.
Prtunnel create a TCP forwarding a local port through the proxy and to
my apache on port 443 (similar to SSH local forward) - faking a SSL
connection .. it works .. however .. trying to get newbies to install
prtunnel, explaining tunneling to them, and make them use it to get to
my repo is a hell ..
surely hope yum have https support so that I can just create one rpm
for the yum config and ask them to export https_proxy rather than all
the work to get prtunnel running on their pc .. this idea I also think
it'll be beneficial for those in certain places that also have a
paranoid network ..
or perhaps .. any idea for a better workaround rather than prtunnel??
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regards
Hikaru
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Amano Hikaru
天野晃 「あまの ひかる」
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
ICT 2nd Year 1st Semester
mohd.izhar.firdaus(a)gmail.com
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Blog: http://kagesenshi.blogspot.com
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17 years, 2 months
PDF
by Art Giles
Hi What will read PDF files besides adobe reader in fc6.
Thanks
17 years, 2 months
Where did my sound go?
by Jeffrey Ross
first this is an x86_64 machine running FC6.
I just updated the system with the latest updates with yum, two items I
noticed that maybe of interest that were updated are ALSA and the
Kernel. Ever since these packages were updated I have lost the sound.
However... If I go to the sound card detection it play fine, run vlc and
the machine is silent. The web browser is silent and so is the mail
client's (thunderbird) new mail notification.
The sound card in the machine is 06:02.0 Multimedia audio controller:
Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) per lspci and the sound card detection
program says its module "snd-ens1371"
Suggestions?
TIA, Jeff
17 years, 2 months
Mythtv using twinhan bt878 on FC6
by Paul Ward
Hi All,
I decided to build my brother a mythtv box to convert him from
windows, to using a decent pvr system.
It is built on FC6 with Fluxbox on a pentium III 500mhz. My first
mythtv was the same proccesor and it ran great.
He gave me his twinham bt878 DVB card but I keep running into problems
can someone help.
First off Myth says can not open card.
I checked /dev/video0 but ths does not exists. /dev/dvb does though
I have ran #modprobe -v dvb-bt8xx
output
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mar 31 23:13:33 localhost kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
Mar 31 23:13:34 localhost kernel: dst(0) dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DTTDIG]
Mar 31 23:13:34 localhost kernel: DST type flags : 0x10 firmware version = 2
Mar 31 23:13:34 localhost kernel: dst(0) dst_get_mac: MAC Address=[00:08:ca:13:6
c:00]
Mar 31 23:13:34 localhost kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (DST DVB-T)...
#lspci -v
output
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB card
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 17
Memory at 40400000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Kernel version = 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
Mythtv version = mythtv-0.20-154.fc6.at
Can anyone offer me help on what I need to do to create the video0 node
Has anyone got this working?
Paul
17 years, 2 months
Can't start X?
by Knute Johnson
I don't think this had anything to do with my problem but I loaded
the Fedora 7 live cd to play with it. Then when I went to restart my
computer X wouldn't start. I had the Livna nvidia driver loaded and
working just fine. Now I can't get it to start even with the nv
driver.
Any idea where I should start?
Thanks,
--
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...
17 years, 2 months
Try
by Art Giles
Greg I'm not good on computers But what I did to get my Hp officejet
5500 To put it in where it calls for the make and model. But make shere
you all ways click on the one you put in.
I hope this helps and makes since.
Oldtimer.
17 years, 2 months