Fedora starts to be to a little bit awkward with the new releases together with the Linux kernel becoming fat and piling up new and old errors. There are several issues I have noticed after a clean install and initial…
ffmpeg with aac support in Fedora 12
I have found a pretty helpful article for ffmpeg recompile: http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2009/11/recompiling-ffmpeg-for-fedora-12-to-add-faac-support.html . However, it looks like the instructions were incomplete.
Major Fedora 11-to Fedora 12 Switch, Acer Aspire 6930G Laptop
A made a couple of installations of Fedora 12 on several laptops and had decided to find the time to make this with my working laptop as soon it looked mature enough for the production mode (provided you get install…
Huawei E1550 Install
Please refer to http://wiki.lynxworks.eu/misc/e1550#fedora. Install usb_modeswitch: sudo yum -y install usb_modeswitch
Googleearth Russian Fonts Fix
A friend of mine had a problem with incorrect display of the Russian fonts with Googleearth installed to the default location at /opt/googleearth.
Skype Fix
Everything you need is: sudo yum install control-center-extra pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 dbus-qt.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 Then install skype in a normal way as I describe here. Tested on HP Compaq CQ71 laptop.
[Solved] No sound in Fedora 12 (hda_generic: no PCM found), HP Compaq CQ71
A friend of mine asked me to install something on his new laptop, I chose Fedora 12 to give a try. The choice was mostly explained with my struggle with the Huawei E1550 pen drive 3g modem but this is…