I have previously used this http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_14&p=httpd&f=10 to get an understanding of the numbers reaching my web page.
But in order to be able to build it, I need some build packages.
More on this another day...
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Skype 2.1 Beta 2 in fedora 14 64-bit
As I wrote in http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/installing-skype-21-beta-2-in-fedora-14.html, I found a way to install the new Skype client in 64-bit Fedora 14.
It starts, and runs ok. The only problem I have is that I can't see video. If I do a video call, the other person can see me, but I can't see either of us.
There is just a white screen.
First I thought it was a problem with the webcam drivers, but apparently this issue that has previously been a problem has been partly resolved.
I have never had a fault-free experience of skype anywhere.
I am going to start to tell ppl to use ekiga instead of this crap, it just does not work.
It starts, and runs ok. The only problem I have is that I can't see video. If I do a video call, the other person can see me, but I can't see either of us.
There is just a white screen.
First I thought it was a problem with the webcam drivers, but apparently this issue that has previously been a problem has been partly resolved.
I have never had a fault-free experience of skype anywhere.
I am going to start to tell ppl to use ekiga instead of this crap, it just does not work.
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Installing Skype 2.1 Beta 2 in fedora 14 64-bit
Just downloading it from http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/ and installing the package for Fedora 10+ worked, but the application would not run (link in Applications -> Internet -> Skype).
After some investigation I found out that it was built with 32-bit libraries. The 32-bit packages in Fedora is built for the i686-architecture. All you need to so is:
1) Open a terminal. (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal)
2) Become root (type su, press enter, and the root password)
3) Enter this command:
yum install qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686
That will install the 32-bit libraries for qt, qt-x11 and libXScrnSaver. I'm not really sure that the "qt.i686" is needed, but it will not hurt anyone :).
After some investigation I found out that it was built with 32-bit libraries. The 32-bit packages in Fedora is built for the i686-architecture. All you need to so is:
1) Open a terminal. (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal)
2) Become root (type su, press enter, and the root password)
3) Enter this command:
yum install qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686
That will install the 32-bit libraries for qt, qt-x11 and libXScrnSaver. I'm not really sure that the "qt.i686" is needed, but it will not hurt anyone :).
Monday, 21 February 2011
Strange wlan problem in Fedora 14 after latest kernel upgrade.
After the latest kernel upgrade I was unable to use my wlan. After a few days there was a kernel module for that kernel available, which I installed. What happend then was that my computer could not find my wlan any more. I can connect and see it when I search with my phone, but not with the computer. It can list ALL other wlans nearby, but just not the one that I was previously connected to. This is really annoying. I first thought that this must be something wrong with the gnome-utils used to connect to the wlan, but after removing every single folder named .* in my home directory (while X is not running, since it rewrites it in some situations), I just think that the problem lies deeper in... more on this as I approach the solution...
*Apparently I had too many connections to my router, which was limited to 4 by my internet supplier! Silly :) Just had to reset the router.
*Apparently I had too many connections to my router, which was limited to 4 by my internet supplier! Silly :) Just had to reset the router.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Wow in linux using Nvidia graphics card and Fedora 14 with wine 1.3.12
For several years, users with a nvidia graphics card and linux who wants to play World of Warcraft has been forced to tell the game to use OpenGL instead of DirectX.
This however seems to have changed now, I still do not know if it it stable yet, but I am able to under linux run the game with almost all graphics settings available, if I use DirectX11. This is not possible while running under OpenGL.
Althou the fps is about half the fps in windows, it is running well, and there is no stuttering. There are those claiming to have higher fps under linux. But the truth is that they are using the OpenGL mode, which has significantly lower graphics detail than the DirectX mode. The water effect was the only setting that was not possible to set to the hightest (Ultra), the only available options were Low and Fair, but still fair uses part of the new rendering settings for water which came with cataclysm.
Seems like stuff is happening under the hood.
I am guessing thou, that when running Direct X under linux in wow, it is still wrapped out using OpenGL.
That would be Wow -> Direct X Abstraction Layer -> OpenGL or something similiar.
Of course, the backside of this, is that it is still controlled by something that is not open source. And I have no idea who is doing all this stuff to make it work on linux. It is nice to play under linux, but why someone puts all this effort into making it work is to me a big question.
Anyway, a big reason that I play under linux is that it actually gives WAY less ping than windows, any version of windows. Even with the latency trix you can do in regedit to not make windows request 2 ack packages (if you dont know tcp/ip, then I lost you here). 25ms is my ping right now, and I own in pvp ;).
This however seems to have changed now, I still do not know if it it stable yet, but I am able to under linux run the game with almost all graphics settings available, if I use DirectX11. This is not possible while running under OpenGL.
Althou the fps is about half the fps in windows, it is running well, and there is no stuttering. There are those claiming to have higher fps under linux. But the truth is that they are using the OpenGL mode, which has significantly lower graphics detail than the DirectX mode. The water effect was the only setting that was not possible to set to the hightest (Ultra), the only available options were Low and Fair, but still fair uses part of the new rendering settings for water which came with cataclysm.
Seems like stuff is happening under the hood.
I am guessing thou, that when running Direct X under linux in wow, it is still wrapped out using OpenGL.
That would be Wow -> Direct X Abstraction Layer -> OpenGL or something similiar.
Of course, the backside of this, is that it is still controlled by something that is not open source. And I have no idea who is doing all this stuff to make it work on linux. It is nice to play under linux, but why someone puts all this effort into making it work is to me a big question.
Anyway, a big reason that I play under linux is that it actually gives WAY less ping than windows, any version of windows. Even with the latency trix you can do in regedit to not make windows request 2 ack packages (if you dont know tcp/ip, then I lost you here). 25ms is my ping right now, and I own in pvp ;).
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Usb-devices in VirtualBox under Fedora/Linux
Are you having trouble connecting your USB-Device to your VirtualBox OS?
Well, you should have!
The problem is most probably that you have not added your user to the vboxusers group.
Enter your root password, and doubleclick the line where your user is.
Select the tab "Groups" and check the box for vboxusers.
Possibly you need to reboot your computer after doing this.
I did not doublecheck the name of this group. It is possible that after installing VirtualBox you need to reboot your computer to see the group. Anyhow this is what I have done to fix this issue.
In order for USB-Device connecting to work in VirtualBox you will need the special Oracle-branded package from virtualbox.org.
Well, you should have!
The problem is most probably that you have not added your user to the vboxusers group.
Select the tab "Groups" and check the box for vboxusers.
Possibly you need to reboot your computer after doing this.
I did not doublecheck the name of this group. It is possible that after installing VirtualBox you need to reboot your computer to see the group. Anyhow this is what I have done to fix this issue.
In order for USB-Device connecting to work in VirtualBox you will need the special Oracle-branded package from virtualbox.org.
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Installing World of warcraft with Nvidia Graphics card Using 64-bit Fedora 14,15,16,17,18/Linux
This post covers an online installation.
1)In the Add/Remove Software applicaton under System -> Administration, search for wine and select "A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator" and press Apply to install it.
Now you are able to run windows-applications.
2)Download the wow-installer from battle.net (WoW-4.0.0-WOW-enGB-Installer.exe).
3)When the download has finished, find this file and left-click on it. Click on "Open with other application..:". Use the custom command "wine", and open the file.
4)Now you will get an SELinux Denial, I simply ignored the denial, and everything seems to work smoothly. The warning has only shown up once.
5) It may require you to download gecko packages, do that. While downloading, you may do step 6.
6) Go to Applications -> Wine -> Wine configuration, the Audio tab. It then sets up the audio settings for the first time (if you haven't done this before), so now your sound should be working.
7) When the installation has finished, add the line set gxAPI "OpenGL" to your Config.WTF file.
Go to the path:
.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/WTF
..and open the file Config.WTF using for example gedit (which you find in Applications -> Accessories -> gedit).
8) Installation of nvidia drivers for your graphics card. If you haven't done this already, here is how it should be done:
a)The nvidia drivers are not in the default repositories, so we need to add rpmfusion repositories: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
In short, open a terminal (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal), become root by the command su, and paste in the following:
>su
>yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
b) continue in the terminal by typing this:
>yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
c)This should have done it, if the above commands finished without any error codes. the xorg-x11......i686 package is needed for 32bit-support in the graphics driver, which is needed by wine. If you are doing this on a 32-bit system you may ignore that line, but nothing will happend if you include it.
The same kind if guide but with intel graphics instead:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/01/installing-and-running-world-of.html
Missing 32-bit libraries for the nvidia driver sympthom:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/using-nvidia-in-linux-with-fedora-14-64.html
Game crashing in new battlegrounds and areas with Intel Graphics solution:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/wow-in-linux-using-intel-graphics-and.html
If you are planning to install using CDs, maybe this can help you:
http://triggsolutions.com/linux-tutorials/installing-world-of-warcraft-on-linux-via-wine/275
What is coming:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/wow-in-linux-using-nvidia-graphics-card.html
If you are having problems installing gecko in wine during installation:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-not-install-wine-gecko-in-fedora.html
1)In the Add/Remove Software applicaton under System -> Administration, search for wine and select "A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator" and press Apply to install it.
Now you are able to run windows-applications.
2)Download the wow-installer from battle.net (WoW-4.0.0-WOW-enGB-Installer.exe).
3)When the download has finished, find this file and left-click on it. Click on "Open with other application..:". Use the custom command "wine", and open the file.
4)Now you will get an SELinux Denial, I simply ignored the denial, and everything seems to work smoothly. The warning has only shown up once.
5) It may require you to download gecko packages, do that. While downloading, you may do step 6.
6) Go to Applications -> Wine -> Wine configuration, the Audio tab. It then sets up the audio settings for the first time (if you haven't done this before), so now your sound should be working.
7) When the installation has finished, add the line set gxAPI "OpenGL" to your Config.WTF file.
Go to the path:
.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/WTF
..and open the file Config.WTF using for example gedit (which you find in Applications -> Accessories -> gedit).
8) Installation of nvidia drivers for your graphics card. If you haven't done this already, here is how it should be done:
a)The nvidia drivers are not in the default repositories, so we need to add rpmfusion repositories: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
In short, open a terminal (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal), become root by the command su, and paste in the following:
>su
>yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
b) continue in the terminal by typing this:
>yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
c)This should have done it, if the above commands finished without any error codes. the xorg-x11......i686 package is needed for 32bit-support in the graphics driver, which is needed by wine. If you are doing this on a 32-bit system you may ignore that line, but nothing will happend if you include it.
The same kind if guide but with intel graphics instead:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/01/installing-and-running-world-of.html
Missing 32-bit libraries for the nvidia driver sympthom:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/using-nvidia-in-linux-with-fedora-14-64.html
Game crashing in new battlegrounds and areas with Intel Graphics solution:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/wow-in-linux-using-intel-graphics-and.html
If you are planning to install using CDs, maybe this can help you:
http://triggsolutions.com/linux-tutorials/installing-world-of-warcraft-on-linux-via-wine/275
What is coming:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/wow-in-linux-using-nvidia-graphics-card.html
If you are having problems installing gecko in wine during installation:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-not-install-wine-gecko-in-fedora.html
Friday, 11 February 2011
Codecs for Movies and MP3 in Fedora 14,15,16,17,18/Linux.
The gnome standard-player will take care of finding all the packages for you, if you did not screw things up before starting it, and if it has access to the rpmfusion repositories.
So just go to rpmfusion, install the repo, and open a video-file you could not previously use. Then it will download it automatically for you.
Rpm-fusion: http://rpmfusion.org/
Configuration guide: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
This has been tested on the 32-bit and 64-bit version of Fedora 14, 15,18. So I'm assuming it works for 16 and 17 also.
Go here for fedora 18: http://guidefedora.blogspot.com/2013/01/video-codecs-in-fedora-18.html
So just go to rpmfusion, install the repo, and open a video-file you could not previously use. Then it will download it automatically for you.
Rpm-fusion: http://rpmfusion.org/
Configuration guide: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
This has been tested on the 32-bit and 64-bit version of Fedora 14, 15,
Go here for fedora 18: http://guidefedora.blogspot.com/2013/01/video-codecs-in-fedora-18.html
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Running apache web server in Fedora 14,15,16,17,18.
To run a web-server in Fedora you need to first install it.
Go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software.
Search for the exact string "web-server".
In order to start the Web Server, open a terminal (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal). Become root (using the command su + the root password), and type the following:
>service httpd start
Now you should be able to go to the address localhost and see the initial testing page in Firefox.
Other things that might come in handy to do later is:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-apache-editing.html
Go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software.
Search for the exact string "web-server".
>service httpd start
Now you should be able to go to the address localhost and see the initial testing page in Firefox.
Other things that might come in handy to do later is:
- Make the server start automatically upon boot. Not really sure on how to do this yet, but I guess to simplify one could just add the line above to /etc/rc.local. I will not enable it to start on reboot myself, for security reasons. I should not start the web-server unless I really want it to be running. The same goes for the ssh-server which I have also installed.
- Change from the standard directory /var/www/html, by editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (press Ctrl+w and search for directoryroot + scroll down to change the other similiar path). I did not change this, because I could not get the service to start when pointed to my home directory, and I also had troubles getting it following my hardlink to my home-directory.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-apache-editing.html
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Using noip to update continously in Linux Fedora 14,15,16,17,18
This is really easy.
Go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software.
Search for noip, and install the selected package.
After entering the command "noip -C" you will be asked for your credentials. Now your system should be configured to automatically refresh your ip.
Go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software.
Search for noip, and install the selected package.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Google Calendar Integration in Evolution using Linux (on Fedora 14/15/16/17/18)
If you have a google account, and an Android Phone, this integration is a real killer! It works like charm, and you have your calendar everywhere. I have everything synched on my stationary computer, my laptop, and in my Htc Desire HD.
In order to see your Google calendar activities, and be able to edit them in evolution:
Open Evolution, and press the button "Calendar":
Next to the "New" button up to the right, there is a drop-down menu. Click it, and select Calendar. Set the type to Google, and enter your credentials:
Voilá!
Life is now as simple as it could be using calendars. I know it can be a mess using Outlook in windows and synching that with home calendars, phones etc.
Synching is just not something that is a good general approach.
It is too advanced to predict all cases and make something good in every situation. Therefore, using google calendar on the net is a nice solution. It is the 1 stable point that is needed for calendars to work flawlessly.
On a side note it is still a synchronization, but it is only between evolution<>google calendar, phone<>google calendar. This removes the need for the phone to understand how the evolution mail client works, in a forcing way. It is brilliant!
In order to see your Google calendar activities, and be able to edit them in evolution:
Open Evolution, and press the button "Calendar":
Next to the "New" button up to the right, there is a drop-down menu. Click it, and select Calendar. Set the type to Google, and enter your credentials:
Life is now as simple as it could be using calendars. I know it can be a mess using Outlook in windows and synching that with home calendars, phones etc.
Synching is just not something that is a good general approach.
It is too advanced to predict all cases and make something good in every situation. Therefore, using google calendar on the net is a nice solution. It is the 1 stable point that is needed for calendars to work flawlessly.
On a side note it is still a synchronization, but it is only between evolution<>google calendar, phone<>google calendar. This removes the need for the phone to understand how the evolution mail client works, in a forcing way. It is brilliant!
Flash player workaround in Fedora 14,15,16,17,18 64-bit
This was true 2 years ago. This may not be needed now.
When using the 64 bit flash-player from adobe, there are currently sound issues when playing videos that have sound encoded with mp3 codecs. Therefore it should not be used. It is also less secure since it is updated less often compared to the 32 bit version of the flash player.
I have also tried Gnash, the "open source"-flash player, I am not fully read up on what it is but that is how I will describe it here. It works partly but I could not look around for more than 5 minutes until I made it crash.
Here is how to install the 32 bit flash player wrapped with ndiswrapper in Fedora. I have tested this myself and it works great.
Goto http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and in the drop-down box, select YUM for linux. Install that rpm.
Go to Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.
> su
> yum install nspluginwrapper.{x86_64,i686} alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 --disablerepo=adobe-linux-i386
> yum install flash-plugin
When using the 64 bit flash-player from adobe, there are currently sound issues when playing videos that have sound encoded with mp3 codecs. Therefore it should not be used. It is also less secure since it is updated less often compared to the 32 bit version of the flash player.
I have also tried Gnash, the "open source"-flash player, I am not fully read up on what it is but that is how I will describe it here. It works partly but I could not look around for more than 5 minutes until I made it crash.
Here is how to install the 32 bit flash player wrapped with ndiswrapper in Fedora. I have tested this myself and it works great.
Goto http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and in the drop-down box, select YUM for linux. Install that rpm.
Go to Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.
> su
> yum install nspluginwrapper.{x86_64,i686} alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 --disablerepo=adobe-linux-i386
> yum install flash-plugin
I found most of the info here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#32_bit_wrapped_version
Native Msn-client for Fedora 14,15,16,17,18/Linux
Recently I found a very good looking and quite well working msn client called emesene. Although Microsoft has changes something fundamental about video-chat, so that doesn't work anymore in any of the client, I like this client. And who needs video chat :).
Edit:
Due to some problems with not being able to see some people online, which I clearly see in aMSN, I have switched back to amsn instead. It is probably the best working application, even though I had hoped that there existed others that actually work. Apparently I have not found another one that works as well and looks good, I wonder when amsn2 comes out.
Edit:
Due to some problems with not being able to see some people online, which I clearly see in aMSN, I have switched back to amsn instead. It is probably the best working application, even though I had hoped that there existed others that actually work. Apparently I have not found another one that works as well and looks good, I wonder when amsn2 comes out.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Using nvidia in linux with fedora 14/15/16/17/18 64-bit (x86_64) to run World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Today I upgraded my desktop computer with a fresh install of Fedora 14. Trying to install wine + wow I ran in to a small problem.
Starting the launcher-application and pressing play:
Que??
No worries...
We all know that when using 64-bit Fedora, we need the 32-bit libraries for running wow.
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Seems to work! (why on earth this is needed I have no idea...)
Starting the launcher-application and pressing play:
Que??
No worries...
We all know that when using 64-bit Fedora, we need the 32-bit libraries for running wow.
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Seems to work! (why on earth this is needed I have no idea...)
Friday, 4 February 2011
Wow in linux using Intel graphics and the i5 processor in Fedora 14.
I have the game running smoothly almost everywhere now. Typical framerate is 20 fps, while still having a lot of other applications running.
But there is still one issue I faced today, I tried to do the heroic throne of the tides. And the game just died. That is the only problem I have right now. This dungeon is in the new "waterworld" and it is possible that this part of the game uses some new graphical feature that just isn't supported. So I would have to figure out which feature it is, and disable it. Anyone know about this?
It also died on the new battleground Twin peaks.
I think I solved this issue by adding the line SET ffxGlow "0" to my Config.WTF file, see the link below.
But there is still one issue I faced today, I tried to do the heroic throne of the tides. And the game just died. That is the only problem I have right now. This dungeon is in the new "waterworld" and it is possible that this part of the game uses some new graphical feature that just isn't supported. So I would have to figure out which feature it is, and disable it. Anyone know about this?
It also died on the new battleground Twin peaks.
I think I solved this issue by adding the line SET ffxGlow "0" to my Config.WTF file, see the link below.
Complete installation guide for installing world of warcraft cataclysm on a computer with intel graphics in fedora 14:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/01/installing-and-running-world-of.html
Missing 32-bit libraries for the nvidia driver sympthom:
http://nosnahoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/using-nvidia-in-linux-with-fedora-14-64.html
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