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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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Tablet hardware
by Florian Weimer 09 May '15

09 May '15

Is there any tablet-like hardware which is well-supported by Fedora 20 and later? Something with a high-resolution display? I don't need 3D acceleration beyond what's needed to run a typical desktop environment, but I'd like to have lots of RAM, a bit of CPU power (perhaps even a current Core i7) and an SSD with decent read speed.

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RPM build error
by Ranjan Maitra 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hello, I am trying to build an RPM for sylfilter available at http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/src/sylfilter-%{?version}.tar.gz with the attached .spec file but I get the following errors: ..... error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 Not sure what the issue is, but wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more!

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f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds
by Branko Grubic 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

This is about Fedora 21 which is still not released!!! Please read carefully. And it is only default on Workstation image (that is what I know) There is a new feature introduced in Gnome and NetworkManager which allows 'Captive Portal'[1] services to work. This may be useful feature for some users (that is why it is implemented), but most users won't use it, and it pings fedora servers every '300seconds', it is enabled by NetworkManager and 'NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora' << (package/config file) which is default installed in Workstation image only (currently, unless someone explicitly pull it in for other live images), 'gnome-shell' package only depends on it. Because I'm not a security expert, I don't want to say this is security issue, but privacy issue to some level (probably not critical), as I understand it, no more information than request to get a file is being sent (so only your 'IP' is exposed)), It currently uses HTTP to communicate with fedora servers, but it is planed to use HTTPS [2], without that you cannot verify who serves that file? (n00b here). At the moment users aren't aware of this feature, and most users probably never will find it working in the background, but I think it shouldn't be enable by default silently, so I filed a 'fesco' ticket for it [3] (PLEASE DON'T SPAM ON FESCO TICKET!, keep discussion here as much as it is possible) Please don't turn this thread to something which it shouldn't be. Be constructive. I don't want to insult anyone, just want this to be discussed, and features like this to be discussed/announced with/to users and developers in future. (English is not my native language, I learned some basics from reading/writing/listening, so, sorry for mistakes) [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal [2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135777 [3] - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1337

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help writing a service file for dropbox
by SternData 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

There's an init.d file for Dropbox for non-GUI servers. I'd like to use drobpox as a way to understand systemd a little better. In the init.d file, it pulls in a list of users from /etc/sysconfig. I'm trying to figure out how to do something like that with a service file. My dropbox.service file is: cat /etc/systemd/system/dropbox.service --------------------------------------- [Unit] Description=Dropbox as a system service [Service] ExecStart=/home/sdstern/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd User=sdstern # 'LANG' might be unnecessary, since systemd already sets the # locale for all services according to "/etc/locale.conf". # Run `systemctl show-environment` to make sure. Environment=LANG=en_US.utf-8 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target --------------------------------------- Ideally, I'd look at a list of users entered in a file in /etc/sysconfig and loop through ExecStart and User for each user, substituting the user name for "sdstern" on each. So, pointers on how to do things like this in a .service file? -- -- Steve

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Google Account in GNOME
by Dave Cross 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Soon after I installed Fedora 20 I used the online accounts config panel to set up my Google account. This worked well for several months. A few weeks ago, I changed my Google account password. Ever since then, GNOME keeps prompting me for my Google account password - but it won't accept either the new password or the old one. I just have to cancel the dialog box. I've tried removing the account and adding it back, but it still won't accept the password. Every time I wake the system from sleep, I get a dialog box asking for my Google account password which I have to cancel. Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix this? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg

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External drive is being mounted as read-only
by Sudhir Khanger 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hello, Fedora 20 KDE Thinkpad T420i laptop has started mounting Transcend StoreJet 25M3 as read-only. I tried remounting with rw but it is still mounted as ro. The system is fully updated. I have recently scrub-ed the external drive to prepare for backup. [donnie@fedora ~]$ mount | grep /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/donnie/storejet25m3 type ext4 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2) [donnie@fedora ~]$ ls -l /run/media/donnie/storejet25m3 total 16 drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Aug 31 12:55 lost+found -- Sudhir Khanger, http://sudhirkhanger.com http://github.com/donniezazen

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BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda
by Lars E. Pettersson 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to get everything as I wanted. When this was ready I got the error message that I also needed a BIOS boot partition (I gather that this due to being rather large disks). I tried to create one of those, but it seemed to only be created on one of the discs in the raid array, I wanted it created on all disks, just as the raid partitions. This to be able to boot from any of the disks in the array in case of a failure. As it is now, if the main disk dies, I can not start the system at all. Actually I ended up having three BIOS boot partition on the first disk, being 2, 1, and 1 MB large. Which is quite annoying. But that's another problem... Before submitting a bug report/RFE on this. Is there anyone out there that have done this, from anaconda? I.e. creating raid partitions and BIOS boot partitions on ALL disks? If so, how did you do it? Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars(a)homer.se> http://www.sm6rpz.se/

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Get rid of the message: session opened for user
by Kevin Wilson 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

HI, Each time I ssh with a putty client from windows to Linux Fedora 20, I get the following messages in the /var/log/messages file: sshd[772]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user xxx by (uid=yyy) Is there a way to prevent this messages ? Regards, Kevin

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Problems with screen to serial usb on F17
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

I have an old F17 Asus Eee700 and trying to hook it to a USB TTL UART as a serial console to some armv7 systems using screen: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 I am getting garbage characters. Not all the time, but particularly at the beginning. I don't see this on either of my two F20 systems: Lenovo x120e and Asus Eee900. I can't easily upgrade this Eee700 and I would be happy just using F17 screen. But is this likely to be OS or hardware?

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