Fedora 10 Multimedia

This post is to help set up multimedia on your freshly installed Fedora 10. What we want to do is get all of the webs multimedia to play on our system and install the necessary drivers for our graphics card. I have an old Nvidia 6200 card here, so I’ll use that one as an example.

First we need to enable the repository for RPMFusion.org as it contains everything we need.

Paste this in the terminal:

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

That command installs the RPMFusion repository for you.
Now the codecs we need:

yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good
gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly
gecko-mediaplayer mozilla-vlc xine-plugin xine-lib-extras
xine-lib-extras-freeworld libquicktime x264 xvidcore

Adobe's Flash Plugin:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'
yum install flash-plugin

Nvidia driver:
yum install kmod-nvidia
(not necessary as the 6200 is supported outofthebox™ it seems)

All done!

Ubuntu 8.10 IOMMU

Since I installed Ubuntu Intrebid Ibex and upgraded my RAM to 4 gigs, i have been getting something like this message at boot:

[    0.004000] Checking aperture…
[    0.004000] No AGP bridge found
[    0.004000] Node 0: aperture @ 20000000 size 32 MB
[    0.004000] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
[    0.004000] Your BIOS doesn’t leave a aperture memory hole
[    0.004000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
[    0.004000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
[    0.004000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 20000000

So I searched the ubuntuforums for the solution to this, and it was pretty simple:
add iommu=noaperture to the kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.list file. When You reboot, you will no longer get the error message.

If the above solution doesn’t work, try iommu=soft instead.

This is on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 with an AMD Turion x2 processor and ATI chipset / graphics. Acer Aspire 5100 series.

Flash 10 64bit Linux Alpha

Howto install the new alpha of Adobe’s Flash 10 on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10.

Download the plugin and extract it somewhere.

Uninstall flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper using Synaptic “Mark for Complete Removal“.

Then copy the libflashplayer.so you extracted earlier to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ .

Edit: Gentoo users should copy to /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

That should be it!

Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 Suspend

Laptop,

Acer Aspire 5102 wlmi

4 GB RAM

120 GB Harddrive

And suspend to ram is finally working!

had to add this little file to /etc/pm/config.d/ to get the atheros wifi to get back up when resumed.

/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:

SUSPEND_MODULES=”ath_pci”

that did the trick.

I have installed the fglrx drivers via the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers application, and I haven’t got the desktop effects enabled due to slower window drawing using these drivers compared to the default ones (ati? / radeon?).

Thanks to paulsiu for the information.

Update:

here is my config files for reference.

/etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module:

http://pastebin.com/f363af213

/etc/default/acpi-support:

http://pastebin.com/f3c99b2a1

/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:

http://pastebin.com/f2e58ab3c

Also, lspci output:

http://pastebin.com/f21cdcc67

And lsmod output:

http://pastebin.com/f27f162aa

EDIT: fixed typo.

blog moved to wordpress.com

I moved my blog today. It sits now on wordpress.com after many failed attempts to move it to my own server, some weird dns issues probably… I’m not fit to play with it now. In a few weeks my hosting plan will be discontinued and I am either going to change webhosting or do it myself like I did a year back. I am having problems however setting up the server , Ubuntu 8.10 Server on an old Athlon 2600+ box with 512 megs of RAM. Should be enough for apache + mysql. Or is it?

Ubuntu Server 8.10

That swap stuff seems odd, I dunno. But here’s another picture for your wieving pleasure?

free -m

Fedora 10 Preview #2

4 days until release! This release is gonna rock hard! Only issue I have is with pulseaudio, choppy sound for some strange reason, but other than that, nothing.

Just wating for virtualbox to support fedora 10 so I can test running CentOS using my favorite virtualization product. I haven’t tried installing it from the tar.gz yet

But on the other hand, I might just want to check out what is supported directly from fedora too… but not tonight.

64bit Flash Player 10

Adobe Systems has spun out an alpha version of its Flash Player 10 technology for 64-bit Linux software users today, to satisfy the needs of freetards everywhere.

The multinational said it has done so to underscore its “commitment to the Linux community” which is ahead of Windows and Apple Mac OS X in the 64-bit processor support game.

Previously, Firefox fans could only use the 32-bit version when running the Flash 10 plug-in because, at release last month, the software needed 32-bit emulation for it to work on Linux platforms and other operating systems.

Adobe pinballs 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha into Linux orbit

the history of the internet

Check this out, this is the history of the intertubes:

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/internet_history/

ultamatix

I am in no way a coder, but this I understand.
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/99905.html

Just got back from the unknown

My verdict of PCBSD, for the few hours I used it.
A very nice system, I like the ports system a lot. It is rubbish compared to gentoos emerge however.
Right now I’m back in Fedora 10 Preview, giving it a another chance. Other thoughts; I should change the blog name to “distrohopper” or something …