multimedia


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I’ve gotten the embedded bug lately.  I dug around for an interesting hardware platform to work with and stumbled across the BeagleBoard.  This 3×3″ board provides impressive multimedia capabilities via the TI OMAP35xx processor.  It appears to serve the purpose I had long ago thought about for the miniITX boards […]

Announcing BeagleBox: Internet video platform for the BeagleBoard


For the past 4 years I’ve worked happily at home with my Acer laptop.  I’ve discussed many of the issues I’ve had with running this laptop with Fedora.  For the most part, despite how those posts may sound, I’ve actually been pretty happy with both the laptop and with running […]

Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds ...


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Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server).  The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10.  However, my laptop supports dual monitors.  Of course, that didn’t work out of […]

Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead



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Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux.  The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets.  So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]

Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...


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Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home).   About the only […]

Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10


After installing F9 I had to go through the process of reinstalling all my old multimedia tools. Fedora doesn’t generally include support for playing MP3s or DVDs so you have to install them from alternate repositories such as Livna or ATrpms. I’d written up how to do this in the […]

Fedora 9 postinstall: multimedia dependencies, sounds and other annoyances