Totem does not play the avi/divx codec movies out of the box. There is a workaround. Even if trying to install missing plugins, it fails. Solution : Add rpmfusion free and non-free repositories from here Once its done, install VLC player (Don’t criticize me yet, there is more ). For some reason after you open [...]

Comment the below lines in /etc/rc.sysinit if [ ! -d /proc/bus/usb ]; then modprobe usbcore >/dev/null 2>&1 && mount -n -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb else mount -n -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb fi Restart the PC and you are done. I now happily access my Nokia E61i through Nokia PC Suite! -Abhi

Initialize the Front volume to 0dB with $alsactl init One that is done, reset the master volume to 100 (using arrow keys) $alsamixer -c0 Ref:Click here

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Download the 64bit package from here BUILD AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ———————————– hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz On the target machine, setup the source/hybrid/build directory 1. Create a new directory: mkdir hybrid_wl 2. Go to that directory: cd hybrid_wl 3. Untar the 64 bit file to that directory 64 bit: tar -xzf /hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz After untar’ing you should have a src [...]

I have a DELL Omnivision 1350 webcam on my PC and had a great deal to get it run. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. The trick is to install the UVC video and then it should work. Download the rpm from here #tar -zxvf uvcvideo-1b4c7a6b9d26.tar.gz #make install Once this is installed, [...]

Fedora 12 Download the skype beta 2.1.x from the skype website. There are some prerequisites which need to be installed for Skype to work on Fedora 12. They are as below : yum install libXv.i686* yum install libXScrnSaver.i686* yum install qt.i686 yum install qt-x11*.i686 yum install libsigc++ libsigc++.i686 qt.i686 qt And you should be done [...]