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I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]

MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged acer / atrpms / epia / Fedora / intel / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum

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

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 6048 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 6062 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 6128 days ago)

I was trying to install a package on an FC5 box at home today and discovered that yum was being uncooperative. Well, I blame it on yum but it was actually rpm. There were no error messages, no indication at all that something was wrong. It just hung. I noticed […]

How to fix a yum when it hangs with no ...

Sat March 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / Linux / rpm / yum (updated 6245 days ago)

I just did an update on my FC5 boxes and found that FC5 Extras will update Xine in a way that removes functionality that was there previously. This includes the ability to play DVDs. I’m not sure the reasoning, though I think it has something to do with removing "non-free" […]

FC5 extras/ FC6: update to Xine removes support for ...

Fri January 12, 2007 in Linux / Open Source / Video tagged Fedora / livna / rpm / yum (updated 6314 days ago)

There is a lot of information on the net about using WordPress as a CMS (content management system), in other words using WP as the foundation for a regular (non-blog) website. But that information is kind of spread out and not completely clear on the process required. Fortunately, it’s very […]

Using WordPress as a CMS: making e-Commerce Lite work on ...

Tue December 12, 2006 in Wordpress tagged Fedora / Linux / linux format / lwn / rpm / Wordpress (updated 6357 days ago)

I recently did a major systems upgrade at home, moving multiple systems from FC2 and FC3 up to FC5. One of those systems holds my MythTV backend server while another is my wireless connected laptop running the MythTV frontend. Obviously, the front and backends got updated too, along with the […]

MythTV 0.20: First Impressions (plus workaround for OpenGL problem)

Mon September 18, 2006 in MythTV tagged atrpms / GIMP / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6436 days ago)

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 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 6760 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 6783 days ago)

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