Fedora

I'm building a mythclient for use at home. It's being installed on FC5 using the ATRPMS repository so I can do a simply yum install mythtv-suite. Except that there is a missing dependency that, as it turns out, is hard as hell to resolve. MythMusic depends on libmp4ff which (after […]

MythTV 0.19 and Fedora yum dependency problem: libmp4ff

Mon September 04, 2006 in Audio / MythTV tagged atrpms / Fedora / Linux / MythTV / rpm / yum

My daughter won the Colorado High School 4A State Championship for #2 Singles in tennis this past weekend. High school team tennis runs with 7 lines, with 3 singles lines (1-3) and 4 doubles (1-4). My daughter plays line 2, primarily because the state champion at line 1 is also […]

Linux video editing: Avidemux2

Fri May 19, 2006 in Audio / Linux / MythTV / Video tagged Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6922 days ago)

I haven’t been using my Sony CLIE for awhile – certainly not since moving to Colorado or buying my Acer laptop. So now its xmas time and I need to put my family’s xmas lists on my CLIE so I can go shopping. But I find that the USB interface […]

Fedora Core 3 and my Sony CLIE

Sun November 27, 2005 in Hardware / Sony CLIE tagged acer / Fedora / xnotesplus (updated 6679 days ago)

My Aiptek 12000U arrived today. It’s a refurbished tablet but it appears to be in the original packaging. This is what I’m doing to get it configured under Linux. First, I had to go to the Aiptek driver web site. The SourceForge site has a downloadable package. That package allows […]

Getting the Aiptek 12000U working

Wed October 19, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / X11 tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost / rpm / X11 / yum (updated 7119 days ago)

I’ve recently discovered that XM Radio provides streaming audio for subscribers with existing radio id accounts. I have multiple radios, so I thought I’d give it a try. The web interface only supports Windows and Macs – no Linux. Fortunately, there is a way around that. The streaming audio is […]

XM Radio and Linux: using the web interface

Wed October 12, 2005 in Audio / General / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / rpm (updated 7142 days ago)

I’m building the latest released developers version of GIMP (2.3.4 – part of the pre-2.4 series). This requires GTK+ 2.6 but I think I recently heard Sven saying that there is already a 2.8 requirement in CVS. So I grabbed GTK+ 2.8 and friends to build prior to building GIMP. […]

GTK+ 2.8 notes

Fri October 07, 2005 in General / GIMP / GTK+ tagged Fedora / GIMP / GTK+ / yum

I’ve got a MythTV server at home that I’ve slowly been filling with movies. I’ve been buying the movies then ripping them to disk with DVD::RIP. The main use for this is in my office where I watch (actually just listen) to a movie on one workspace while I work […]

A video library: ripping with mencoder, acidrip, transcode and DVD::RIP

Mon September 19, 2005 in Linux / Video tagged Fedora / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 7119 days ago)

It used to be that you could fairly easily allow remote applications to connect to your X server using just xhost. The criminally insane (re: script kiddies) have caused us all to lock down our systems like a virgin during the dark ages. Fortunately, sitting behind a well plumbed firewall […]

Using remote X applications under Fedora Core 3 (re: xhost ...

Thu June 30, 2005 in Linux / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / Linux / X11 (updated 6891 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]

A new laptop – Acer Aspire 1690

Sat June 04, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / rpm / Video / X11 (updated 7119 days ago)

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7465 days ago)

I’ve hit a couple of snags in trying to do various types of upgrades. The first is related to upgrading, or rather porting, my GTK+ software from 1.2 to 2.x. The second is in upgrading my laptop at work from RH9 to Fedora.

Who said upgrading wouldn’t be hard?

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / GTK+ / kde / rpm / Wordpress / xnotesplus (updated 7471 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…