News on digg shows that FC5 Test2 is out !!.
Now I don’t usually care about test releases - FC is unstable enough 
- but what is cool is the screen shots with the new FC artwork & logo’s, tiz very nice 
The release notes: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test2-latest-en/ have loads of information if you need it, notice that the fedora website is now supporting the new logo as well 
- little things eh !
I’ve put up with this error message for some time now:
I run a firefox on gnome on fedora core, installation on my laptop. No matter how much googleing I did, I could not work out which part of the puzzle was at fault.
Well, today I sussed it, if I visit feed:myfeed the feed opens in google reader
I’m in the process of trying to get 
working on Fedora Core 4 in the usual chase the dependency scenario you can easily get into I needed to build an wxPython package.
I hope these are of use:
So I’ve been clearing out some stuff and I found another thing of use.
When I had a Sony Vaio, I remember the most annoying thing to get working was X11, specifically finding the right Fedora Core xorg.conf. I’ve uploaded my working xorg.conf here , now if you’re a really newbie and need some steps read-on, else you’re probably done
Firstly, if you boot the PCG-C1F from the CD-ROM, and just hit enter at the install prompt, anaconda will try and start X, and when it does it can’t set the resolution right. So, the best thing to do is install in text mode. Text mode is started at the install prompt with:
A while ago I put some effort into getting SSL support working with XMMS on Fedora Core 3, unfortunatley I didn’t get very far 
Ages a go Dustin Kirkland was kind enough to help me out (he wrote an SSL patch for XMMS), but I never got a change to finish, Since this message has been flagged for follow up for soooooo long now, I thought it only fair to share what Dustin sent me, when (& if) I get this finished I’ll publish an rpm good luck !
ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve needed to rebuild an rpm, I guess it just goes to show what a good job those repo-boys are doing !
Well I’ve just noticed Solaris 10 is available and I needed a download manager. Normally the built in download manager in firefox will do, but today I wanted to be able to control the speed at which I downloaded … et voila d4x, an rpm hasn’t been build since fc2 so I built one.
Here’s a screen shot to keep you interested !
Found something cool today, a GUI for cisco’s LINUX vpn client.
I’ve tested it & it works as expected, check out the screenshot.
I’ve been trying to get beagle working on my FC3 machine for a while now, but without much success . I have two fc3 machines at my disposal , what I ended up with was one where the beagle daemon would load & index data, but the best (search) gui didn’t work - So I couldn’t easily search what I had indexed - and on the other the best gui worked, but the daemon wouldn’t start - DOH , a gui but nothing to search !
I’m forever looking for ways to make things easier for myself
Today I came across gnome-blog it’s a small gnome applet that allows you to post direct from your desktop, Infact that’s exactly how this was written ! (h)
The default FC3 rpm on seths website didn’t install for me, it complained about a python(abi) dependancy - which I just couldn’t find - I did however find this similar rpm which I installed before installing gnome-blog, so if you have problems installing my rpm, then this may help. ( http://dl.atrpms.net/~/pythonabi-2.3.4-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm )
Hardware stuff, especially laptops is usually window$/manufacturer specifc so getting some of it work work can be a bit of a pain. In FC1 low batteries & standby is handled by APM, in FC2 upwards APM is replaced with ACPI & this is a quick text on getting going.
There are two folders & a service :
The service , I think runs in the background monitoring the hardware, you can then put events into /etc/acpi/events and get things to happen when the deamon spots them .
I’m in the process of tring to get beagle working on my FC3 Laptop, being my usual read the instructions later self, I added the yum repo suggested on Beaglewiki.org and it resolved all it’s dependencies, and I thought all was good, but it wasn’t .
Turns out my laptop installed the latest kernel from the official fedora updates, rather than a custom one that i needed… So I decided to have a go at building it myself
The beagle guys provide their own src.rpm so I just tried using the “patch” info in that to patch the latest proper kernel from Fedora/Redhat… but no joy :’( …but then I found a cracking thread on fedoraforum.org
For a short time I had a Sony PCG-C1F laptop …
Now these boxes are quite old, so it get sound working in Fedora Core 3 we’d need some legacy sound card support. Sound cards in FC3 are powered by ALSA & the alsa project is very comprehensive, and support the sound card in this box… BUT surprisingly, on a clean install of fedora it doesn’t work
So what do we need to do to get legacy sound cards to work ?
According to the ALSA documentation we need to run a configuration utility called alsaconf.. but it doesn’t exist. I found a thread on the fedora list that explained this…
I’ve got a few posts in my wordpress drafts that are based around rebuilding RPMS, I figure that before I finish them it makes sense to wrte a Getting Started Guide.
The first thing is based around the “Unix Golden Rule”: Only use root when you have to.
To rebuild rpms you need a cirtain directory stucture, it is located in /usr/src/redhat, but since it is owned by root you’re gonna need on in your $HOME. The following does the job:
It was lunchtime, & I was broswing the web, I stumbled across a $HOME of gnome applications http://gnomefiles.org/ and there in the top 10 most popular applications something caught me eye… what was Mail Notify?
After a short broswe of the pojects home page, I was already searching for a RPM to install, and to my suprise those smashing people on the Fedora Extra’s team have already made one ! …
mail-notification-1.1-1.i386.rpm
I loaded it up & this is great ! a system tray application that can check multiple mail accounts (including gmail), and it don’t look half bad either !
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