MythTV

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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I’ve been working with the various incarnations of Red Hat Linux, including Fedora, since before the company went public.  In that time I’ve done more than just a few upgrades from one release to another.  With each upgrade I learn just a little more about administering my own Linux system.   […]

The Everyday Guide to Fedora Upgrades

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If you’re using xrandr on a box with an Intel graphics chip in order to setup your dual displays then you might have noticed that GNOME moves its main panel to the monitor connected to the external VGA port.  This happens because the Intel chip says that the external VGA […]

Intel graphics, xrandr and GNOME: the case of the ...

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I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is.  Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation.  You would use it, for […]

Using xrandr with external display ports

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I use GNOME or XFce for my desktop environments at home and work.  In both places I tend to listen to movies while I work.  I have a large collection of DVDs and even a larger collection of VHS tapes.  The former are mostly ripped to disk now but the […]

Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you ...

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My problems with the intel driver provided in the F10 distribution have been resolved.  I had to compile the driver manually, along with the libdrm prerequisite, but it was rather painless and surprisingly easy to accomplish.  MythTV is now happily serving up live TV and videos on my laptop monitor […]

F10 and xorg intel driver: solved

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / MythTV  tagged autogen / drm / f10 / freedesktop / graphics / intel / intel driver / kernel / laptop / Linux / live tv / MythTV / rpm / Video / xorg / xrandr (updated 5596 days ago)
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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 ...

 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Video / X11  tagged epson / Fedora / games / GIMP / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / intel / ivtv / kde / Linux / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / Open Source / printing / Video / wifi / xrandr (updated 5609 days ago)
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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

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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

 in Fedora / Linux / MythTV  tagged atrpms / Fedora / livna / multimedia / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 5741 days ago)