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I’ve gotten into the habit of skipping every other Fedora release since that lets me skip doing upgrades every year.Â I feelÂ a little more productive that way.Â Most especially since I have lots of boxes at home doing special things (development, httpd staging, MythTV servers and frontends, etc).Â Well, […]

Fedora 9 upgrade but a GNOME downgrade

Sun August 10, 2008 in Fedora / Linux tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / Linux / MythTV / nvidia / Writing

I keep running into this problem and I decided it was time to make notes on how I resolve it. The problem is that I’ve used the methods I’ve described previously to include missing multimedia support in Fedora 7 and when I do updates I run into this problem: Error: […]

Updating xine with DVD playback (or how to deal with ...

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum

I found an interesting story online about a producer at CNN who got canned for blogging – mostly about stuff that didn’t pull the corporate line. It’s interesting to read from my point of view because it mirrors (to an extent) the pitiful way in which Dell treated its employees […]

Big media (along with corporate stupidity) must die, die, die.

Thu February 21, 2008 in General / Personal / Politics / TV / Writing tagged dell / graphics

It’s interesting to find old friends and coworkers reading my blog, mostly since I write it for myself and really don’t expect anyone else to read it. But I guess a few do. So it was a pleasant surprise to hear from Charlie Sauer today. Charlie was director of product […]

Another look back: the history of Dell Unix

Fri January 11, 2008 in General / Linux tagged dell / graphics

I downloaded Google’s Android SDK today. The kit is about 55MB for Linux and was a breeze to get running. The kit comes with an emulator that displays a generic phone with the Google UI. The majority of the online help is geared towards creating applications that run on Android. […]

Google’s Android – a first look

Tue November 13, 2007 in Android / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged Android / graphics / java / Linux / Writing (updated 5999 days ago)

I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend. The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room. […]

Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless

Sun October 21, 2007 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Software Development / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / wifi (updated 6025 days ago)

My main system at work is up to date now, thanks to some help with missing multimedia tools and various other applications. Two sites helped with this: The Fedora 7 Installation Guide and Fedora 7: Installing multimedia Support. Both are well written and very helpful, but not absolutely complete. Neither […]

Fedora 7: The missing applications

Wed October 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum (updated 6030 days ago)

Well, I’m getting further along. I now understand how to use the intel driver better, well enough to setup dual head dynamically using xrandr. But there is a serious limitation that makes me think either the Intel guys don’t understand X11 or there is a shift in Xorg away from […]

i915GM/Fedora 7: Dual head success with intel driver, but ...

Tue October 09, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr (updated 6038 days ago)

I posted a question about getting my i915GM graphics working on my laptop with Fedora 7. Kevin Fenzi of tummy.com, who works on the Fedora project, suggested trying a stock xorg.conf config then plugin the VGA output and do xrandr –auto. The stock xorg.conf uses the intel driver, which he […]

i915GM and Fedora 7: intel bad, i810 good

Mon October 08, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr

I posted some queries about getting dual head working with my laptop, which uses the Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller, aka i915GM. Under FC5 the i810 X.org driver supported dual head AND TV-out. But I’m having a problem getting dual head working under F7 with either the i810 […]

i915 dual head configuration (FC5 – F7 doesn’t work yet)

Wed October 03, 2007 in Linux / X11 tagged graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / ubuntu / X11 (updated 6043 days ago)

It’s that time again. Time to upgrade all the servers in the house (and at work, probably early next month) to the latest Fedora release. I started with my MythTV server since it only serves two purposes: run as the MythTV backend and run BOINC. I jumped into this a […]

Upgrading to Fedora 7 and MythTV 0.20.2 (Schedules Direct)

Sat September 29, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / MythTV / X11 tagged atrpms / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / Linux / livna / mysql / MythTV / rpm / Video / xrandr / yum (updated 6043 days ago)

My sister needed me to pull some pictures off her digital camera so we could place an ad in our parents home paper for their 50th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the USB cable for the camera. However, the camera had an SD card. And my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi […]

Getting the Acer Aspire 1691 SD slot working under Fedora ...

Sat July 28, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / graphics / Linux / rpm / ubuntu (updated 6109 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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