Category Archives: Fedora

Building EPEL6 packages that use Qt 4

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Eric

I’ve been trying to build an EPEL 6 package (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Centos 6, etc.) of Meshlab, for which I already have a Fedora package.  The latest challenge is that the Koji build server is trying to … Continue reading →

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misc. hints on debugging Linux power management

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Eric

Dump BIOS DMI table: dmidecode Dump devkit power status:  devkit-power –dump or upower –dump Enable power manager debugging, useful before suspend:  echo 1 >/sys/power/pm_trace look at log file: /var/log/pm-suspend.log

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misc. Linux notes

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Eric

Things I’ve learned today that I’ll probably need to know later, after I’ve had a chance to forget them: GNOME 3 was designed by idiots for idiots.  They’ve tried to make it completely drool-proof, and in the process made it … Continue reading →

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More trouble with Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Eric

When I posted Dual Head on Fedora 11 last night, I thought I had the problem completely solved, but when I booted the system this morning, the video card was acting up again.  There were lots of black horizontal streaks … Continue reading →

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Dual-head on Fedora 11

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Eric

I finally have a working dual-head configuration on Fedora 11 with a Radeon 2600 Pro AGP card and two LCD monitors.  The ATI Catalyst (fglrx) binary-only driver is crashing again; I think they’ve had a regression in their AGP support … Continue reading →

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Suboptimal fonts after Fedora 9 upgrade

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Eric

Update:  I upgraded one of my machines from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9, and it started using tiny fonts.  Tom Horsley on the Fedora list explained that now the X server is actually using the display resolution (dots per inch) … Continue reading →

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Skype and Teamspeak finally coexisting

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Eric

I use Skype for telephony, and Teamspeak for some online games (mostly Ticket to Ride). Until now, I’ve never gotten them to peacefully coexist on my 64-bit Linux system, despite the use of the ALSA OSS emulation library. Now, with … Continue reading →

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Fedora 7 Rhythmbox install is brain-damaged

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Eric

The update to Fedora 7 installed Rhythmbox.  Perhaps it was already installed with Fedora Core 6, but I didn’t use it, and it hadn’t caused me any grief.  But in Fedora 7, Rhythmbox registered itself as the default player for … Continue reading →

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Upgraded one system to Fedora 7

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Eric

After making a backup, I upgraded one of my computers to Fedora 7.  The upgrade went smoothly, and I haven’t noticed any problems.   The balloon theme is nicer that then Fedora Core 6 DNA theme.. GutenPrint 5.0 (formerly GimpPrint) has … Continue reading →

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lcdtest now uses SCons instead of make

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Eric

A few people reported problems caused by the “.d” dependency files created by the dependency analysis hack in the Makefile, so I’ve updated lcdtest to use SCons instead of make.  I’ve also now made RPMs for Fedora Core 6 available … Continue reading →

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