[Nova Dragoon]

Right-click on the sound icon in the top right

say "Open-Volume Control"

goto capute tab,

click on the red x under Mic, untill it goes away

[unreal_origin]

New question: how do i get .wma to play in xmms? i have been looking and the best things i have found are for fc3, but i need fc5

[Nova Dragoon]

Have you tried using them?

Sometimes they will work across versions

[unreal_origin]

i have tried and it did not work, i found on thing, which did not work, i think it is because it was for fc5 i386

but i have i686

does this make a difference, and what does that stand for anyways?

[stuart]

Hi unreal_origin,

I can't tell exactly what you mean by getting .wma to play in xmms so
I will take a guess ... plugins!

You need plugins for xmms to play the wma files. But you also need
these plugins to play .mp3's, which you say you can allready, so maybe
you have the correct xmms plugins. If so just ignore the rest of my post.

The required plugin is available using the command line yum
(nearly as good as debians apt-get).

All you have to do is type the following at the command line
and it should work:

yum install xmms-wma

Or you can search for an rpm version of the plugin if that is what
you are more comforable with. e.g. google for xmms-wma.rpm

[stuart]

Also your question about i386/686 ...

i386 packages are designed for 386 class machines
e.g. the really old 386dx-33

i386 packages will run on any x86 machines. This is your
safest bet and they will work on your i686 machine

i686 packages are designed to run on 686 class machines
and there is a good chance they will not run on the old 386dx-33

To check what system you have, use this at the command line

uname -m

[unreal_origin]

sweet

Maybe you can answer my other question was how do i make so that when i click on a music file it opens XMMS clear the playlist, and then plays,

and not just open XMMS and put in on the end of the play list and, not play until i click play?

[Nova Dragoon]

the i386, and i686 are archtectures,

i686 as in intel (or IBM) 386 processor

486, 586, and 686. (known as pentiums)

The i386 is compiled very generally for x86 machines, and should run on any x86 platform, (such as pentium/AMD athon)

The 586, and 686 have compiler optimisations for newer processors.

[Abbygail]

Does anyone know how to fix the gui for Add/Remove Software?
It keeps crashing while retrieving info.

[Nova Dragoon]

Abbygail, on 14 Jul, 2006 - 05:07 AM, said:

Does anyone know how to fix the gui for Add/Remove Software?
It keeps crashing while retrieving info.

Try doing this as root in a terminal

yum clean all
yum make cache

then try running the gui again.

[Abbygail]

Nova Dragoon, on 14 Jul, 2006 - 04:55 AM, said:

Try doing this as root in a terminal

yum clean all
yum make cache

then try running the gui again.

I get error's when I run yum makecache
here is the output.

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Making cache files for all metadata files.
This may take a while depending on the speed of this computer
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

[Nova Dragoon]

hrm, your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo may have been messed up, paste the contents in here, and I'll take a look

[Abbygail]

[core]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[core-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[core-source]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Source
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/source/SRPMS/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[Nova Dragoon]

can you goto this url and have a list of things show up?? http://fedora.redhat...s/fedora-core-5

[Abbygail]

You mean in firefox??