BBC news 24 video in F8?
by mike cloaked
Does anyone (mainly in the UK) get BBC news 24 video to play nicely in F8.
I can go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and click on the BBC news 24 link near
the top of the page. It plays in the new window that pops up with repeated
flashing green on the image. I have Real_10 installed and select to play
in Real 10.
I also have mplayer installed, and VLC.
However once the video is playing I can select to "launch in stand alone
player" and on one machine this works ok but on another machine with
an nvidia graphics card (and using kmod-nvidia) the colours are wrong
with green and red hues in the wrong places!
Does anyone have a link to a how-to for playing BBC news video in F8
that I could try?
16 years, 1 month
Yum - i386 packages on x86_64
by Tom Brown
Hi
I need to install some i386 packages onto my x86_64 machine and i wonder
if i can do this with yum? I have configured yum so that it can see both
repo's and i can list the contents of the i386 repo so i wonder where a
package is present in both repo's how do i specify which to install.
i thought
yum install foo --arch=i386 might work but it does not - any ideas ?
thanks
16 years, 1 month
Changing default source for PulseAudio: recording from a mic
by Marco Monteiro
I run Fedora 8. I have a SoundBlaster Live. I would like to record from
the microphone, but the system is not configured to allow that by
default. It seems to be recording with some kind of loopback device,
because "arecord" with no arguments catches whatever is comming from the
speakers, though at a much lower sound volume.
"arecord -l" returns
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC
Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 1: emu10k1 mic [Mic
Capture]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 2: emu10k1 efx
[Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Weirdly, "arecord -D plughw:0,1" also does not record from the mic. But
"arecord -D plughw:0,2" does work. When recording with arecord I get
several "overrun!!! (at least 0.024 ms long)". I don't know why this
happens, and after a week fighting this, I don't care. I just want to
record sound from the microphone with some other program. To achive that
I tried dozens of things, like to add this to /etc/pulse/default.pa:
add-autoload-source my_input module-alsa-source device=plughw:0,2 \
source_name=my_input
set-default-source my_input
I get nothing from the microphone. This does not work. My question is:
what can I do to record with an application that does not allow for the
"-D plughw:0,2" thingy? What is the proper PulseAudio incantation to set
the mic device to be the default?
Thank you.
Marco
16 years, 1 month
kernel: Disabling IRQ #19
by Jouk Jansen
Hi all,
This morning I upgraded the kernel of my X86-64 laptop to
kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8. after a few minutes running I got this message in
all of my "terminal screens":
Message from syslogd@csardas at Apr 3 09:10:39 ...
kernel: Disabling IRQ #19
What does that mean? The machine seems to run on as normal.
Jouk
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16 years, 1 month
KDE dictionary applet
by Ric Moore
We used to have that dictionary applet. Does anyone know where it went
to? Thanks! I miss it when I wax poetic. Ric
--
================================================
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar
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16 years, 1 month
Re: Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames
by Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 06:30 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
>
> On 2 Apr 2008 at 18:09, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:48 -0700, Les wrote:
> > > On my punch cards they did. Every card had a number sequential to the
> > > sequence. The punch we used inserted them automatically. Well, the
> > > programming card did. The reference number used for calls may have been
> > > different, but I don't remember it.
> >
> > Those weren't line numbers per se (in the sense that BASIC had line
> > numbers, for example). In FORTRAN, an 80-column card was divided into
> > fields:
> >
> > Column 1: 'C' indicated a comment line, ' ' a code line.
> >
>
> Columnt 1-5: is for line numbers and on many compilers they had to be right
> aligned.
OK, but these are the statement labels described below, not line numbers
per se.
>
> > Column 2-6: Statement label numbers. These were arbitrary numbers used
> > as targets for FORMAT, GOTO and "computed GOTO" (now *that* was a flow
> > control concept!), and DO statements. These did not have to obey any
> > ordering rules. There was no concept of an if-else block or a while
> > loop with a logical test, so flow control was handled by GOTOs of some
> > variety. Targeted statements were usually CONTINUE statements (no-ops),
> > because there was some ambiguity regarding when the targeted statement
> > was actually executed, and because it made reorganizing the flow a bit
> > easier (especially with punchcards[1]).
> >
>
> Column 6: Was used for continuing information from the previous card.
> Generally putting a 1 in column 6 for the first continuation line, and 2, and so
> on, but most didn't care. COBOL uses Column 7 for this, and uses a hyphen
> if splitting a word or quoted text.
Damn, forgot the continuation character.
>
>
> > Column 7-72: Code.
> >
> > Column 73-80: Ignored. Intended to be used for sequence numbers so you
> > could sort the cards down in order if somebody dropped the deck. The
> > numbers could be anything really, for example a three-letter alpha code
> > identifying the deck and a four-digit sequence number.
> >
> > (Somebody is bound to correct me on the actual column numbers, now...)
Thanks for the corrections. I wasn't near my FORTRAN Coloring Book
(Roger Kaufman, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England, The MIT
Press, 1978. 285 pp., paperback ISBN 0 262 61026 4,
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/ColoringBkCover.html) when I wrote that.
--
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Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
16 years, 1 month
REPOST: Netgear WG511T config
by Chris
Greetings,
Guys -
I tried to install F8 on my HP lappy last night with my new WG511T
wireless nic. F8 sees that ath0 (sort of) but it's not configurable.
Well, sort of there too. Under network mgr, it sees wlan0, I config as
I normally would however, it just won't work.
Interestingly enough, I did put Ubuntu on this device over the past
weekend and Ubuntu saw it (with restricted drivers) and I was able to
get it configed and working.
Any ideas how I can do this? Is it even possible? Is there a FAQ or
alternative config I need?
Please help - I really don't want to keep Ubuntu on this device.
TIA
Best regards,
Chris
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16 years, 1 month
Changing default source for PulseAudio: recording from a mic
by Marco Monteiro
I run Fedora 8. I have a SoundBlaster Live. I would like to record from
the microphone, but the system is not configured to allow that by
default. It seems to be recording with some kind of loopback device,
because "arecord" with no arguments catches whatever is comming from the
speakers, though at a much lower sound volume.
"arecord -l" returns
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC
Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 1: emu10k1 mic [Mic
Capture]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 2: emu10k1 efx
[Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Weirdly, "arecord -D plughw:0,1" also does not record from the mic. But
"arecord -D plughw:0,2" does work. When recording with arecord I get
several "overrun!!! (at least 0.024 ms long)". I don't know why this
happens, and after a week fighting this, I don't care. I just want to
record sound from the microphone with some other program. To achive that
I tried dozens of things, like to add this to /etc/pulse/default.pa:
add-autoload-source my_input module-alsa-source device=plughw:0,2 \
source_name=my_input
set-default-source my_input
I get nothing from the microphone. This does not work. My question is:
what can I do to record with an application that does not allow for the
"-D plughw:0,2" thingy? What is the proper PulseAudio incantation to set
the mic device to be the default?
Thank you.
Marco
16 years, 1 month
Where does X11 get started for runlevel = 5 ???
by clemens@dwf.com
It seems that I should be able to find this, but I dont see it
(no need, just curious), where does X11 get started for
runlevel = 5 ?
I dont see it in the 3 startup scripts in /etc/rc.d nor the
scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d . It must be there, but I dont
see it... and thats iritating...
Anyone?
--
Reg.Clemens
reg(a)dwf.com
16 years, 1 month
F8 updates for 1st April?
by mike cloaked
I see a pile of updates available for F8 from late yesterday (1st April)
- but they don't appear to come in with yum
- anyone know if there was a problem with the update files?
16 years, 1 month