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Getting web camera and skype to work in Fedora

Posted in Software Installation, Trouble-shooting by Ranjeev Satyajit on July 24, 2008

I was very excited when I heard Skype featured video in Linux but alas even with the latest version of Fedora, Sulphur, my web camera did not quite work. Well my kernel detected my web camera (more…)

Genius Mouse pen on Fedora

Posted in General by Ranjeev Satyajit on July 8, 2008

This is basically for Genius Mouse pen 5×4 but I have also written for others too. If you have any other Linux distribution follow the source code compilation.

It was quite difficult in finding out how to use my mouse pen with fedora. There are lots of links for Ubuntu though but very few for Fedora. Well this is how I got it working. (more…)

Package Kit

Posted in Software Installation by Ranjeev Satyajit on July 5, 2008

I do agree Package Kit is good and has a lot of features and provides a uniform fronted to some of the common package management systems like yum, apt, rpm, zypp etc. But I do think its in a some what beta form. And that is why I suggest to use yumex. (more…)

Installing more than two kernels in Fedora 9

Posted in Software Installation, Trouble-shooting, Tweaks by Ranjeev Satyajit on July 5, 2008

Many of you might have noticed that on Fedora 9 you cannot install more than two kernels by default. The moment you want to update your kernel it replaces the older one. Now this can be very problematic if the new kernel does not suite your system. Well for that follow these steps: (more…)