Mar 8

Recently i installed Fedora 8 on my machine. All went smoothly and i was able to login to the improved KDE for the first time. But to my disappointment the display was all messed up. Poor colors, fonts etc.. This is what i did to fix it.

First i downloaded the display driver for my motherboard. My configuration was Linux x_86 (Fedora 8), Integrated/Motherboard and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 and i downloaded the driver from here.

The driver installation went on fine and i rebooted the system. But to my surprise that didn’t fixed the problem. After searching and browsing few forums i got the solution. You need to run following command after installing the driver

aticonfig –initial -f

And after restarting X, display got fixed.

Aug 22

Recently I tried to install Fedora Core 4 on my brother’s Acer TravelMate 4152NLCi Laptop, Installation went on smoothly, however I faced few problems when I started the laptop for first time after installation-

# Issue 1 - Start-up got stuck on PCMCIA service

When the laptop rebooted after the installation, the start up got stucked while initializing PCMCIA service. To overcome this I choose interactive start up and selected ‘N’ when asked for PCMCIA service . The laptop start up went on smoothly and for the first time I saw the login screen. After login the first thing I did was turned OFF the PCMCIA service from System Services.

# Issue 2 - No Sound

It detected the sound card correctly during installation, however I was not able to hear any sound when playing the Test Sound. I followed the instructions given here, but it didnt helped, then after searching the internet I got a major breathrough from this site. The only tweak I did to adjust, is to open the ALSA mixer and turn on external amplifier option (under Switches Tab in KMix). This worked magically for me and I was able to hear the sound then onwards.

There were no other major issues and FC4 is now working fine on Acer TravelMate 4152.

Aug 4

Many a times we need to delete a particular folder which is present in every subfolder of the parent directory. One such situation is the subversion’s working copy. The working copy of project which is in subversion contains .svn hidden folders. When moving the working copy to the webroot, we generally want to delete all the .svn folders as they take a lot of space.

Directories can be deleted recursively very easily in linux. To do so first go to the parent directory and then issue rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn` command. This will delete all .svn folders from the parent as well as sub-directories. Replace .svn from the command as per your needs.