real video in fedora 10.

was not able to run real video in movie player on fedora 10.

there was no video codec  drvc.so in /usr/lib/codecs . 

searched for the codec ,, it was in realplayer install directory ..

copied it  to /usr/lib/codecs... 

voila..

 

fedora 10 - bluetooth problem solved ,,

[root@localhost Desktop]# hciconfig hci0 class
hci0:    Type: USB
    BD Address: 00:1D:D9:E6:65:E9 ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
    Class: 0x4a010c
    Service Classes: Networking, Capturing, Telephony
    Device Class: Computer, Laptop
 

[root@localhost Desktop]# hciconfig hci0 class 0x5a210c
 

[root@localhost Desktop]# hciconfig hci0 class
hci0:    Type: USB
    BD Address: 00:1D:D9:E6:65:E9 ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
    Class: 0x5a210c
    Service Classes: Networking, Capturing, Object Transfer, Telephony
    Device Class: Computer, Laptop

i got this solution from here . I didn't restart the service ,, as Object Transfer was removed after the restart , also i was not able to send files from my cell to laptop. :( ,,  but from lappy to cell it's working ...

firefox 3.0.14 - not able to load java.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090905 Fedora/3.0.14-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.14

was trying to access a virtual lab .. oops

your browser is not able to load java.

I was surprised as few days back I was able to access it w/o any issues.
then I checked the firefox version and it was 3.0.14 .. ohh seems it is updated ( auto update). and i knew the culprit ,, plugin must not be there in the  firefox installation directory . in my case
/usr/lib/firefox... 

yeah there was no plugins dir under ../../firefox-3.0.14/    .

checked the previous installation and ya plugins dir is there.

seems firefox does not import these plugins settings after update..

now I was confused ,, is it a bug or purposefully its left like that.

Any way I created the plugins dir under current firefox installtion dir.

then create symbolic links.

 

ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.7.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

same was the case with my flashplayer plugin. also created sym link for that.

ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.7.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

voila..

Preupgrade - fedora distro

How to use PreUpgrade

1. Back up all important data before upgrading.
2. Run the yum update command as root to make sure all packages are updated to their latest versions.
3. Run the yum install preupgrade command as root to install PreUpgrade.
4. Run the preupgrade command as root to start the PreUpgrade application.
5. Select the Fedora release you want to upgrade to on the Choose desired release screen, and click the Apply button.
6. When all of the packages have downloaded, reboot your system to start the Fedora installer.

i was upgrading from fedora 8 to fedora 10 , but i earlier installed the packages from livna and freshrpm repo . so it was causing dependency problem in step no 2 . yum update .

so i had to exclude them

yum update --exclude=xine-lib

and then there were few warning regarding the dependecies in the preupgrade , but all ended well.

the most annoying thing was the slow download of the packages.

one more thing , i am not having the linux grub , instead of that i have solaris grub , so when it reboots , u wont find an option for the upgrade in the boot menu , all u have to do that , boot into soalris and read the grub entries from the linux grub.conf and update menu.lst , and now reboot and boot into the fedora upgrade. after the upgrade it will again reboot and now again u have to make new entries in the soalris grub.conf/ menu.lst .

u all at home :) . enjoy mighty fedora 10.

another way to upgrade using yum is here.

azureus / vuze on fedora 10

installed azureus using yum .
yum -y install azureus
it was running fine other than flash plugin miissing prompt , i installed the flash plugin , but no fortune . after that it notified that a new version Vuze 4.1.0.0 is available and i downloaded that . now there was no way to upgrade the previous installation ,

i had to remove previously installed azureus using

yum remove azureus
now i extracted the newer version in the /usr/share . u can place it whereever u like .

still there was the missing flash plugin . then i created a sym link to the /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so in new vuze/azureus plugin directory

but even this could not fix the missing plugin problem .

i created a symlink like this ..

ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/plugins/
and now it is working fine :)