OT?? Refusal to boot from external USB
by Beartooth
My #3 PC is a handed-down Dell PowerEdge sc1420, now running F11,
which began life as a server for a list I help manage. (The list is now
hosted elsewhere.) I call it BBB (Big Black Beast), since it's so much
larger and blacker than any of my others.
I also have a Lite-On external USB DVD-RW drive, which the BBB
sees perfectly well when it's plugged into it. I can read the files on
it, which look normal afaict -- in fact, I have installed F12 on two
other machines from the same DVD.
And I have the boot sequence in the BIOS set to start with the
DVD drive, in order to upgrade to F12 that way. But it doesn't.
I'm pretty sure I've installed Fedora releases on BBB before,
using the DVD drive (certainly the first one, when the it first came to
me).
I have previously tried "preupgrade" on the BBB several times;
the grub screen now shows an F11 kernel, then the preupgrade option, then
more F11 kernels. When Anaconda starts at all, it's because I've clicked
that second (Constantine) option -- and then it hits the dread lack of
space, and aborts.
Afaict, Anaconda never gets launched from the DVD.
What am I doing wrong? Do I just need to get the Constantine
option out of there?
If so, is it enough to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf? Or do I have to
find and dig out everything it refers to? Or what??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
14 years, 6 months
Recent texlive anyone?
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
has anybody seen some rpm packaging for the current texlive
distribution? Since fedora switched over things look stalled.
I am asking because I could really use the
\KOMAoption{listof}{leveldown} thing.
(So if anyone knows how to have the same effect in the old version ...)
regards
Christoph
14 years, 6 months
Slow gnome startup with compiz enabled
by Dan Burkland
Hi all,
I've noticed that when starting gnome up for the first time after boot
it takes at least 10 seconds before I can navigate the desktop. I have
enabled compiz using the "System=>Preferences=>Desktop Effects" menu. I
have tried re-enabling metacity and that seems to solve the problem. Has
anybody else noticed this and possibly found a way to speed up the load
times with compiz enabled?
Thanks,
Dan
14 years, 6 months
Re: Poor Sound recording on Intel MB DG965SS [partially solved]
by Max Pyziur
Apologies,
I thought that I had tried all of the options before I sent my request. As
it turns out, I had the volume set too high on my tape player and that
resulted in a poor digital recording.
However, I still do not hear the sound from an external input device like
an PMP (my Creative Zen) or a tape player when recording using gnome sound
recorder. It is only when I playback that I hear what I recorded (make
sense?).
Is it possible to simultaneously listen and record at the same time using
gnome sound recorder?
Thanks.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Max Pyziur wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Several years ago, sometime during the earlier releases of Fedora, I was
> able to listen to and record from external devices like my Creative Zen
> and Sony cassette tape recorder/player; while playing or recording I could
> hear the sound from the devices on my system speakers.
>
> These days, I'm trying to listen and record from the same devices on my
> F12 Intel MB DG965SS home-built system but only with weak success.
>
> I can play wav and mp3 audio files using mpg321 and mplayer from a
> command line, and xmms and rhytymbox in the gnome desktop.
>
> However, unlike in previous releases (upto FC8?), I can't plug in an
> external device, run it through the line-in line (blue input), and hear it
> through the system's speakers.
>
> I can record from my tape recorder, but with very poor quality; while I'm
> recording, I can't hear it through the system's speakers, as I did
> previously.
>
> I've tried to review fedora-list threads pertinent to the subject. So far,
> the one application that has facilitated recording is the gnome sound
> recorder available through from the gnome-media-apps rpm. However, there
> is a considerable amount of distortion that sounds like poor grounding.
> I've used the cables previously with success and there do not seem to be
> any cracks.
>
> Looking at the sound preference setting, the hardware tab is set to Analog
> Stereo Duplex, the input tab is set to Line-in/line-out and the Internal
> Audio Device radio button is active for sound input.
>
> My MoBo is an Intel MB DG965SS and it has sound built-in (Line-in,
> line-out, and microphone-in).
>
> Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz(a)brama.com
>
14 years, 6 months
Compiz-fusion + Dual head Nvidia, flickering cursor and hangs.
by Andy Campbell
On both by laptop and desktop PC I run Dual-head, as separate X screens.
In both cases when running compiz-fusion I've had an issue when I loose
control of the cursor, and it flickers across the screen boundaries. It
seemed to happen about once a day, before I abandoned Compiz.
Moving the mouse seem to have some affect on the pointer but not much, the
only fix is to kill X. Seems to be fine it I stick to Metacity. I didn't
have any issues with F10,F11.
I'm using the closed source NVIDIA drivers from RPM Fusion.
Not sure what is at fault here, to even log a bug, Nvidia drivers, Compiz,
or something else.
Andy
14 years, 6 months
Poor Sound recording on Intel MB DG965SS
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
Several years ago, sometime during the earlier releases of Fedora, I was
able to listen to and record from external devices like my Creative Zen
and Sony cassette tape recorder/player; while playing or recording I could
hear the sound from the devices on my system speakers.
These days, I'm trying to listen and record from the same devices on my
F12 Intel MB DG965SS home-built system but only with weak success.
I can play wav and mp3 audio files using mpg321 and mplayer from a
command line, and xmms and rhytymbox in the gnome desktop.
However, unlike in previous releases (upto FC8?), I can't plug in an
external device, run it through the line-in line (blue input), and hear it
through the system's speakers.
I can record from my tape recorder, but with very poor quality; while I'm
recording, I can't hear it through the system's speakers, as I did
previously.
I've tried to review fedora-list threads pertinent to the subject. So far,
the one application that has facilitated recording is the gnome sound
recorder available through from the gnome-media-apps rpm. However, there
is a considerable amount of distortion that sounds like poor grounding.
I've used the cables previously with success and there do not seem to be
any cracks.
Looking at the sound preference setting, the hardware tab is set to Analog
Stereo Duplex, the input tab is set to Line-in/line-out and the Internal
Audio Device radio button is active for sound input.
My MoBo is an Intel MB DG965SS and it has sound built-in (Line-in,
line-out, and microphone-in).
Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
14 years, 6 months
Radeon HD 5770. Is there a better driver than VESA?
by wmj011@aol.com
I understand that the Radeon HD 5770 is part of the "Evergreen" chip
series
which is not yet supported by the X.org radeonhd driver.
Should I try using it just the same? Currently my Fedora 12
configuration defaults to VESA.
14 years, 6 months
how to list hardware manufacturer?
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware
installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram).
lspci does not give info about these hw.
lshw, does not give the manufacturer
dmidecode does not give the manufacturer
Is there a tool which is able to do that, or a file in /etc (or elsewhere)?
Thanks for attention.
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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14 years, 6 months
Fedora 12 will not load
by Gunnar Sperber
My system works up to the point when the sky-blue screen appears with
the dark grey blob in the middle. Then nothing more happens.
14 years, 6 months
Wireless weather station
by Timothy Murphy
Is anyone running a WiFi weather station under Fedora?
If so, what model? And what software?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
14 years, 6 months