Category: Linux

Fedora 15 Logitech Dinovo Edge

This worked for me out of the box, however if it does not work for you

Try following this post Fedora 13 / 14 Logitech Dinovo Edge

I chose the incorrect layout,
since gnome 3 no longer controls keyboard layout you have to set it in xorg configuration

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf 
# This file is autogenerated by system-setup-keyboard. Any 
# modifications will be lost.

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"system-setup-keyboard"
	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105+inet"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
#	Option		"XkbVariant"	"(null)"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
EndSection

A list of keyboard layouts

Wikipedia Keybaord Layouts

17.1.18. /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
The /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file controls the behavior of the keyboard.

The following values may be used:
KEYBOARDTYPE=”sun|pc” where sun means a Sun keyboard is attached on /dev/kbd, or pc means a PS/2 keyboard connected to a PS/2 port.
KEYTABLE=”“, where is the name of a keytable file.

For example: KEYTABLE=”us”.

The files that can be used as keytables start in /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386 and branch into different keyboard layouts from there,
all labeled .kmap.gz.

The first file found beneath /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386 that matches the KEYTABLE setting is used.

Console keymap is controller by grub

/boot/grub/menu.lst
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64 ro root=UUID=553d29bd-4b1c-427d-8624-8ad53821f217 rd_DM_UUID=sil_bgaiahccahbc rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=uk rhgb

Fedora 15, 16 pulseaudio m-audio audiophile 2496

Same old trick to this one

1. Edit the pulse rules

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/90-pulseaudio.rules

add the following line

SUBSYSTEMS=="pci", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x1412", ATTRS{device}=="0x1712", ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1412", 
ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0xd634", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="m_audio-audiophile-2496.conf"

2. Create the following file

sudo gedit /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/m_audio-audiophile-2496.conf
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
# License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

; M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
;
; This card, based on the Via ICE1712 chipset, has two stereo audio channels
; (1 in and 1 out) and a separate S/PDIF digital stereo channel. Like with
; all ICE1712-based cards, this is exposed by ALSA as a single 10-channel
; device with some of the channels not connected.
;
; See default.conf for an explanation on the directives used here.

[General]
auto-profiles = no

[Mapping analog-stereo-in]
description = Analog Stereo Input
device-strings = hw:%f,0
channel-map = front-left,front-right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7,aux8,aux9
direction = input

[Mapping analog-stereo-out]
description = Analog Stereo Output
device-strings = hw:%f,0
channel-map = front-left,front-right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7
direction = output

[Mapping analog-digital-stereo-out]
description = Analog/Digital Stereo Output
device-strings = hw:%f,0
channel-map = front-left,front-right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,front-left,front-right
direction = output

[Mapping digital-stereo-out]
description = Digital Stereo Output
device-strings = hw:%f,0
channel-map = aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7,front-left,front-right
direction = output

[Mapping digital-stereo-in]
description = Digital Stereo Input
device-strings = hw:%f,0
channel-map = front-left,front-right,front-left,front-right,front-left,front-right,front-left,front-right,front-left,front-right,front-left,front-right
direction = input

[Mapping digital-stereo]
description = Digital Stereo Input/Output
#device-strings = hw:%f,1
device-strings = iec958:%f
channel-map = left,right
direction = any

[Profile output:stereo]
description = Analog Stereo Output
output-mappings = analog-stereo-out
input-mappings =
priority = 80
skip-probe = yes

[Profile output:stereo-da+input:stereo-analog]
description = Analog Stereo Input/Output
output-mappings = analog-stereo-out
input-mappings = analog-stereo-in
priority = 100
skip-probe = yes

[Profile output:stereo-da+input:stereo-analog]
description = Analog Stereo Input/Output, Digital Stereo Output
output-mappings = analog-digital-stereo-out
input-mappings = analog-stereo-in
priority = 90
skip-probe = yes

[Profile output:spdif]
description = Digital Stereo Output (Analog Disabled)
output-mappings = digital-stereo-out
input-mappings =
priority = 60
skip-probe = yes

[Profile output:spdif+input:spdif]
description = Digital Stereo Input/Output (Analog Disabled)
output-mappings = digital-stereo-out
input-mappings = digital-stereo-in
priority = 70
skip-probe = yes

Don’t forget to turn up the device DAC 0,1

optionally, if this setting goes after reboot, make a startup script and put the following into it

amixer -c 0 sset  'DAC',0 100% 100%
amixer -c 0 sset  'DAC',1 100% 100%

Note* -c 0 might change depending on your setup!


Fedora 15 repositories

So i upgraded to Fedora 15, i must say its going to take a while to get
used it without compiz and general gnome 3 stuff.

First thing i noticed was as its beta there are no official repos.
in the main trunk, you have to use the development ones.

first off move all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ *.bak
( we will want to restore these later, when the proper repos come up! )

next

make a new file fedora.repo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

Add the following

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/x86_64/os/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
#metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/x86_64/debug/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/source/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

And work away as normal 🙂

yum clean all
yum update

Ubuntu 10.4 / Fedora 13 Vmware Workstation 7

After much scouring the web i eventually found a fix for vmware workstation 7 on Ubuntu 10.4
Follow these to the T. and you should have no problem compiling vmware modules.

1. Switch to your temp directory

]tar xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar

3. Add #include “compat_sched.h” under the first set of includes

tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar vmnet-only

5. Extract Virtual Machine Communication Interface

gksudo gedit vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.c

7. Add #include “compat_sched.h” under the first set of includes

tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmci.tar vmci-only

9. Finally recompile the vmware modules

Ubuntu 10.4 / Fedora 13 Dell 1320C printer

To add the dell 1320c to Ubuntu 10.4
Download the following deb file fuji-xerox-docuprint-c525-a-ap_1.0-2_i386.

if your architecture is 64bit, your probably going to have a bit of an issue! wrong architecture? no problem, just use

sudo dpkg -i --force-install fuji-xerox-docuprint-c525-a-ap_1.0-2_i386.deb

once installed open up the add printer though system > administration > printing
Follow the steps as usual and when asked for the printer make, choose the ppd file from

/usr/share/cups/model/FujiXerox/en/FX_DocuPrint_C525_A_AP.ppd

Happy printing!

Screenshots – Process