Re: How do I get SB X-FI sound card working on Fedora 12

2010-01-08 Thread Stewart Williams
John Nissley wrote: Back to the subject, is pulseaudio alive? $ ps -AH | grep pulse ---ps -AH | grep pulse ---1691 ?00:00:09 pulseaudio Another point that I probably should have made earlier is that I did compile alsa-driver-1.0.22.1.0.g2d697.0.g88788 since I thought

Re: F12 USB flash drives not recognised [SOLVED]

2009-12-22 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: In F12 any USB flash drives I plug in are not fully recognised (i.e. I cannot mount them) dmesg output: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0d7d, idProduct=0100 usb 1-5: New USB device strings

Re: Yum command

2009-12-19 Thread Stewart Williams
Jim wrote: FC12/KDE How would I do a yum command to enablerepo=updates-testing to update python. I did it this way but it won't work. yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python It should be: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing _update_ python -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-17 Thread Stewart Williams
Frode Petersen wrote: According to the ALSA soundcard matrix [1] they support PCI versions (not PC-cards?) from ALSA v.1.0.21 onwards. Does this match your setup? I recently read somwhere (can't recall where) that the drivers were not very good at the time when Creative open sourced their

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-17 Thread Stewart Williams
Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, i was the postman of this topic. It took another way of discussion but I didn't get an answer for my question... Is there a driver available on F12 for the SoundBlaster X-FI card ? BR Sorry Luc, but thought I'd answered your question in my first post and went

F12 USB flash drives not recognised

2009-12-16 Thread Stewart Williams
In F12 any USB flash drives I plug in are not fully recognised (i.e. I cannot mount them) dmesg output: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0d7d, idProduct=0100 usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-14 Thread Stewart Williams
Mikkel wrote: Now this is strange - we have a card 1, but no card 0. Card 0 is normally the default sound card. I have to think about this a bit - I think the SB card is detected as a sound card, but Alsa is not able to access it. I am going to have to look - I think I have a SB card around

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-14 Thread Stewart Williams
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 22:11:19 Stewart Williams wrote: Mikkel wrote: I would check System -- Preferences -- Advanced Volume Control. Sorry, I can't seem to find this on my system. I don't use Gnome, but I guess you're talking about Pulseaudio volume control

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Mikkel wrote: I would check System -- Preferences -- Advanced Volume Control. Sorry, I can't seem to find this on my system. Then check System -- Preferences -- Sound -- Hardware and make sure your hardware is available to your user. Make sure the correct output type is selected analog or

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-10 Thread Stewart Williams
Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, is there any driver available under F12 for Creative Labs SB X-Fi ? BR F12 correctly detects my card and shows that everything *should* be working, however I get no sound and when I try to play an audio CD or mp3 - it doesn't play/start. So there is definitely a

Re: SB driver in F12 ?

2009-12-10 Thread Stewart Williams
Mikkel wrote: Check your mixer settings, especially the Pulse Audio settings. Mikkel Anything specific? Because I have already looked at them and could see anything obvious. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: FC11- getting message about 'battery broken'

2009-11-09 Thread Stewart Williams
Jatin K wrote: On 11/05/2009 04:19 AM, Stewart Williams wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am running gnome and when I log in I get: Battery may be broken Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be old or broken. Now I did not get anything like

Re: FC11- getting message about 'battery broken'

2009-11-04 Thread Stewart Williams
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am running gnome and when I log in I get: Battery may be broken Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be old or broken. Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it would run a number hours on battery.

Re: FC11 - Health problems for my SSD drive?

2009-11-04 Thread Stewart Williams
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Again FC11 newly installed on an ASUS ee 701 that has a 4Gb SSD drive. Since that is NOT enough space, I have a 8Gb SD card in the slot and the / and /boot partitions is on the SD card. Swap drive and /home are on the SSD card. Anyway, I just got a drive health

Desktop notifications

2009-10-25 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi all, I don't really want to have a moan, I was just wondering why? and to get everyone's views. I remember way back when Linux on the desktop was beginning to progress faster and people were discussing how to notify the user of certain system events. Reading various Internet blog posts,

Re: Creating a Windws XP virtual machine Fedora 11

2009-09-02 Thread Stewart Williams
: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocation Thanks, James Harrison Could be related to this bug?: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500968 -- Regards, Stewart Williams -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Display actual speed of ethernet connection

2009-04-19 Thread Stewart Williams
Dave Feustel wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:39:21PM +0200, fedora wrote: Hi Dave /sbin/mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok Thanks for the reference. Man mii-tool says this utility does not cover 1G nics and is obsolete. It recommends ethtool instead. '/sbin/ethtool eth0'

Re: Unable to boot Live Fedora on a USB flash drive

2009-03-17 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: I am trying to create a LiveUSB drive using a 2GB USB flash drive, but I'm being unsuccessful for some reason. Ideally I was hoping to create one based on Omega-10, but I get the same problems with Fedora. Here's what I have tried: 1. Creating a LiveCD from

OT: Internet access for old RH machine

2009-03-17 Thread Stewart Williams
I know, I know, but ... I have an old laptop (PII-400MHz) that has RedHat 7.3 installed on it and it works like a dream and it's all setup how I want it. Currently I use it stand-alone and has no LAN or Internet access configured. However occasionally I would really like to access certain web

Gnome open/save dialog preferences

2009-03-17 Thread Stewart Williams
Is it possible to configure the Gnome open/save dialog box layout so that it has the 3 big buttons like in old releases (see random google screenshot) http://www.flexbeta.net/images/suse9.1/suse_gnome24.jpg I am using Fedora 9 and 10. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Unable to boot Live Fedora on a USB flash drive

2009-03-16 Thread Stewart Williams
Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: I am trying to create a LiveUSB drive using a 2GB USB flash drive, but I'm being unsuccessful for some reason. Ideally I was hoping to create one based on Omega-10, but I get the same

Re: Unable to boot Live Fedora on a USB flash drive

2009-03-16 Thread Stewart Williams
Mike Cloaked wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I am trying to create a LiveUSB drive using a 2GB USB flash drive, but I'm being unsuccessful for some reason. Seems to complete without error 2. Boot Fedora 9 install on my desktop and prepare the USB stick as above Run liveusb-creator GUI

Unable to boot Live Fedora on a USB flash drive

2009-03-15 Thread Stewart Williams
I am trying to create a LiveUSB drive using a 2GB USB flash drive, but I'm being unsuccessful for some reason. Ideally I was hoping to create one based on Omega-10, but I get the same problems with Fedora. Here's what I have tried: 1. Creating a LiveCD from omega-10-desktop.iso and boot it

Re: Upgrade Has Caused A Downgrade

2009-01-05 Thread Stewart Williams
Gene Poole wrote: All, I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations. I've a custom built machine that WAS running the following: ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board AMD 64 X2 Dual core 5600+ 4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card

Re: External hard disk or USB errors

2008-11-17 Thread Stewart Williams
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 15:29 +1000, Da Rock wrote: What do you turn off and on exactly? The computer or the hard drive? The external hard disk. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

External hard disk or USB errors

2008-11-04 Thread Stewart Williams
I have an external USB Maxtor OneTouch 160GB hard disk attached to one of my systems and occasionally after the drive has been connected for sometime, randomly it un-mounts and I have to turn it off and on again before I can re-mount it. The following errors are logged (please see attached

Installing packages from Fedora repo - is it safe?

2008-09-16 Thread Stewart Williams
I think I know the answer to this, but I'm just clarifying. I have updated to the updates-newkey repo for updates, but there are packages that I want to install, and these are still pulled from the fedora (Everything) repo. Is it safe to use the repo yet or are all the packages in the

Re: FC9: can't find iostat command

2008-08-08 Thread Stewart Williams
Laszlo BERES wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm -qa | grep sysstat [EMAIL PROTECTED] The above should only work when the sysstat package is installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum whatprovides */iostat Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds

Re: FC9: can't find iostat command

2008-08-08 Thread Stewart Williams
Todd Zullinger wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I am intregued by the */ in your yum command. Is that to make yum match the filename on it's absolute path? Indeed. If yum see the / in the patter, it will consult the file list metadata. Normally, yum tries to avoid using the file list