Category Fedora

Fedora 12 on mac book pro 13″ …. with sound ! (updated)

On my new mac book pro 13inch, I decided to install Fedora 12 for my daily use (I like Mac OSX but not for work) and as GNU/Linux consultant I need my dear lovely Linux laptop :-) But out of the box 3D support for the video card is not supported nouveau (open source nvidia driver) and the WIFI is also not working. Using rpmfusion I've installed kmod-nvidia and kmod-wl and it works fine. (YOU STILL NEED TO INSTALL THEM, even with the packages bellow, the current packages are : kmod-nvidia-190.42-1.fc12.9.x86_64.rpm and kmod-wl-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.11.x86_64.rpm) But (there is always a but it seems) the nothing comes out of my speakers or headphones... (Whhhyyyyyyy!!!?). Due to a lack of time and a reasonable level of frustration, I stayed several weeks with my new brand silent laptop. 
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
This is the ouput of the sound preferences : and in alsamixer : I finally decided to have a deeper look to my problem (frustration level reached the limit :-P ) I installed the kernel from rawhide (kernel-2.6.32.2-18.fc13.x86_64) but of course no driver for nvidia video card and wifi available for that kernel :'-( (I told you there is always a but)

UPDATE: that kernel is not more available (seems to be updated while writing this post), new packages are now attached at the end of this post for kernel-2.6.32.3-21.fc13.x86_64

So I recreated the rpms to support them. You just need to install them and add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/sound : 
options snd_hda_intel model=intel-alc889a
Reboot, check sound preferences: Increase the volume and unmute in alsamixer, save it and enjoy (no more but !) :) For those looking how to turn on the lights of the keyboard, just try this : 
echo X > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

X is a value from 0 to 255

Wanna test openERP on Fedora or CentOS ?

Hello, If you want to test the latest version of openERP (5.0.6) on Fedora 12 or CentOS 5, you can try the package available on inuits repo (some other packages for other projects will be available too) :-) Those packages are still in development, don't hesitate to send me feedback. How to setup the repository : edit /etc/yum.repos.d/inuits.repo with (for Fedora): 
 [inuits]
 name=RPM Inuits repository Fedora $releasever
 baseurl=http://repo.inuits.be/fedora/$releasever/os/
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=1
 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-inuits
Don't forget to import the GPG key (you can find it here 
 rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-inuits

dstat and my.cnf

What a surprise, this week-end I received I very nice email asking me some help on the plugins I wrote for dstat. I wrote them more then 2 years ago while listening to Linus Torvalds in Cambridge :) The request was to enable the read of the password and user from the my.cnf file instead of exporting them in environment variables. Here are the patch for the release 7.x (fedora) and 6.x (centos 5.3) The patch is only for one of the plugin, but it's easy to apply it to all of them.

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