After some googling, I finally got some How-To install VirtualBox in Fedora 10. The problems that I was facing with VirtualBox is that I was unable to compile the kernel module of VirtualBox successfully. Following are the steps for setting up VirtualBox in a 32-bit Fedora 10 system. Steps: 1) Open the terminal and go to the super user mode : su - 2)Download the latest VirtualBox package for Fedora 9/10 from ...
Yesterday, on 2nd January, 2009, I finally installed Fedora in my Dell XPS M1530. The installation went fine and it was great to see a new glossy installation screen. After the installation, Plimouth is also working fine, but I had to add a kernel option for that— vga=0x318 The graphics was ok , but not perfect without the Nvidia drivers. Then I set rpmfusion.org enabled on my system and downloaded the Nvidia drivers from there. ...
To find the PCI ID of a particular device use the lspci command. depending on the version and usage of the lspci command various output is shown. In Fedora, I use the following to identify the PCI ID (Note: the grep is added to filter the output): $ /sbin/lspci -nn | grep ‘VGA|NV’ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] [10de:0322] (rev a1) Use the PCI ID and look it up under Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products in any ...
We were facing a lot of difficulties in setting up Fedora after the installation. Reason? Poor internet connection in the locality. It was a great dissatisfaction for me and Kishan (my friend) and also for the newbies. To resolve this, Arindam Ghosh gave me a copy of “Fedora-mirror” and taught me the How-Tos to setup an offline Fedora-mirror and do the requisite installations. It was really a needed gift for us. We set-up many a system successsfully with its help. ...
Exams ended, and today in the morning I was heading as fast as I can towards my Mess to get my hands on the Fedora 10 DVD. Also I had to fix some issues regarding another Fedora 10 installation in my friend’s notebook, which is a Compaq Presario with Nvidia graphics card. The thing that I found there was that his X-server was not running. I tried to peek into the xorg.conf but in vain, it was not there. Then I tried to boot using the kernel option vga=0X318 and then Plymouth started working. I was impressed by the booting screen. Alas! It again landed on the CLI, but this time it was much more crisp (might be due to Plymouth). I did google a bit on the issue regarding xorg.conf not present in Fedora 10, I stepped across a method to create the xorg.conf file. I then did the following steps: 1)$ su -c “yum install system-config-display” 2)$Xorg -configure :1 it created a new file xorg.conf.new in the current directory. 3)Then I pasted the file as xorg.conf in /etc/X11/ and tried to invoke the X-server, it failed…saying that display not comatible. ...
12 December was my Maths examination. As most of my friends know that maths and I don’t get along. But this instant was a little more than expected. I took heavy pounding from the Maths paper. Now I am all flat, lying in bed, and blogging and trying to shed off the frustration…
Its 3:00 PM , 1 December 2003. Just now I got my medical report and I am very happy to see that I recovered from Hepatitis. The Bilirubin level is 0.8 now. What a relief! But not for long. Do you know why? Semester exam starts from 4th December. Pressure from all the ends. Last week was a long frustrating week. We had practical exams. Bruised like anything in the electronics and electrical viva voce, but PPL practical exam was great. ...
I am Ratnadeep Debnath a.k.a. rtnpro. I am an open source evangelist and contributor. I graduated in Computer Science and Engineering in 2011. I have been a Fedora user since 2008 and I contribute to the Fedora project as an ambassador, packager and a developer. I also contribute to the Transifex project. I started contributing to the Transifex project in the early days of 2011. Then I did a paid internship at Indifex from June, 2011 to August, 2011 on the Transifex project. I joined Indifex as a full time employee from September, 2011. At Indifex, I develop cool new apps and ensure that things work as expected. I also contribute to the Askbot project. I also worked on wordgroupz, a vocabulary builder app in my college days. I usually code in Python. When I am not coding, I try my luck with cooking and practise meditation.