Naresh

Fixing Redmine user page-load-error on Debian 6

2011-11-20T12:34:00.003+05:30

For those who are using redmine on debian-6.0, and using redmine might see problem using it, when we try to visit the user page.

Error look something like this.

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `html_safe' for "user@mycompany.com":String) on line #10 of app/views/users/show.rhtml:

Solution to this problem is to apply this patch.

redmine-server:/usr/share/redmine# diff /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb.orig 476,477c476<           #html = content_tag("a", name || email_address_obfuscated.html_safe, html_options.merge({ "href" => "mailto:"+html_escape(email_address)+extras }))<                 html = content_tag("a", name || html_escape(email_address_obfuscated), html_options.merge({ "href" => "mailto:"+html_escape(email_address)+extras }))--->           html = content_tag("a", name || email_address_obfuscated.html_safe, html_options.merge({ "href" => "mailto:"+html_escape(email_address)+extras }))mdserver1:/usr/share/redmine#

Building Facebook's HipHop on Fedora 15

2011-10-31T10:35:00.009+05:30

Facebook has opensourced their Hiphop code transformer. Simply put Hiphop transforms your code written in PHP Language into Machine Language. So this post is mainly for PHP Developers and Others who want to get their hands dirty with Hiphop on Fedora 15.

Before you get started. Please visit the main home page of the hiphop Project itself.

On github you see the list of all the pre-requisites. First lets get our development environment ready.

Prerequisites.

You need a Fedora 15 64-bit installation. You need not install anything. Just install the Live CD and follow these steps to get the things done.

1. Install the Fedora Packager packages



[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# yum groupinstall "Fedora Packager"

2. Make sure you have git and c++ compiler



[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# yum install gcc-c++ git wget

3. Install all the pre-requisites as mentioned in the hiphop wiki


[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# yum install zlib-devel   \
xorg-x11-devel   \
libXau-devel   \
libxcb-devel   \
libX11-devel   \
libXpm-devel   \
freetype-devel   \
fontconfig-devel   \
libcom_err-devel   \
libjpeg-turbo   \
2:libpng-devel   \
libsepol-devel   \
libselinux-devel   \
keyutils-libs   \
krb5-devel   \
openssl-devel   \
mysql-devel   \
gd-devel   \
boost-devel   \
libcap-devel   \
oniguruma-devel   \
pcre-devel   \
libicu-devel   \
binutils-devel   \
libxml2-devel   \
libmcrypt-devel   \
expat-devel   \
libstdc++-devel   \
glibc-devel   \
tbb-devel   \
cyrus-sasl   \
libmemcached-devel   \
bzip2-devel   \
openldap-devel   \
ncurses-devel   \
readline-devel   \
pam-devel   \
uw-imap-devel   \
systemtap-sdt   \
libaio-devel   \
mysql-devel   \
jemalloc-devel

4. Now we have to build libevent-1.4 and curl packages on our own as facebook has made some patches to those packages.

5. Lets create the environment for building the packages

6. Create workspace for checking out the hiphop source code.



[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# cd $HOME/
[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# mkdir -p $HOME/dev/hiphop/ $HOME/dev/hiphop/usr
[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop

7. Checkout the hiphop source code



[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/ && git clone git://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php.git

8. Download curl and libevent for building locally



[root@nareshv-build64 ~]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop]# wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.20.0.tar.bz2
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop]# wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz

[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop]# tar jxf curl-7.20.0.tar.bz2
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop]# tar zxf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz

[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop]# cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
[root@nareshv-build64 libevent-1.4.13-stable]# cp ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libevent-1.4.13.fb-changes.diff .
[root@nareshv-build64 libevent-1.4.13-stable]# patch < libevent-1.4.13.fb-changes.diff

[root@nareshv-build64 libevent-1.4.13-stable]# export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/dev/hiphop/usr
[root@nareshv-build64 libevent-1.4.13-stable]# make
[root@nareshv-build64 libevent-1.4.13-stable]# make install
[root@nareshv-build64 libevent-1.4.13-stable]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/

[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop]# cd curl-7.20.0
[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# cp ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libcurl.fb-changes.diff .
[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# patch -p0 < libcurl.fb-changes.diff

# While applying patch, it will ask for which file to patch. Type in the names without the .new and .old paths. 
# Example: include/curl/multi.h and 
# Example: lib/multi.c
# After this, patch will be applied correctly.

[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/dev/hiphop/usr/
[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# make
[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# make install
[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/

9. Now get ready to build hiphop itself



[root@nareshv-build64 curl-7.20.0]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/hiphop-php
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/dev/hiphop/usr/
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# git submodule init
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# git submodule update
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# export HPHP_HOME=`pwd`
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# export HPHP_LIB=`pwd`/bin
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cmake .
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# make

10. You will encounter some errors related to 'c-client version should be higher than 2007'.

On fedora the package is called libc-client and libc-client-devel and the includes are present in /usr/include/imap/ folders.

Lets adjust the CMakeCache.txt like this.


[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/hiphop-php/
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# vim CMakeCache.txt

 71 //Path to a file.CCLIENT_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=CCLIENT_INCLUDE_PATH-NOTFOUND
 72 CCLIENT_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/usr/include/imap/
 73 
 74 //Path to a library.CCLIENT_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=CCLIENT_LIBRARY-NOTFOUND
 75 CCLIENT_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib64/libc-client.so.2007

11. Build again.


[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/hiphop-php/
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cmake .
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# make

12. Now it will fail at mysql related references like this



[ 88%] Building CXX object src/hphp/CMakeFiles/hphp.dir/externals.cpp.o
Linking CXX executable hphp
../../bin/libhphp_runtime.a(ext_mysql.cpp.o): In function `HPHP::php_mysql_do_query_general(HPHP::String const&, HPHP::Variant const&, bool)':
ext_mysql.cpp:(.text+0x8109): undefined reference to `cli_safe_read'
ext_mysql.cpp:(.text+0x822c): undefined reference to `net_field_length'
ext_mysql.cpp:(.text+0x83a0): undefined reference to `cli_safe_read'
ext_mysql.cpp:(.text+0x8675): undefined reference to `free_root'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [src/hphp/hphp] Error 1
gmake[1]: *** [src/hphp/CMakeFiles/hphp.dir/all] Error 2
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

After investigating for a couple of hours. found that this issue is related to the way mysql rpm is built in fedora distribution. Somehow i managed to overcome this problem by doing the following things.

12.1 Download the mysql .src.rpm from koji

I went to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=268920

and downloaded the following .src.rpm

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/mysql/5.5.16/3.fc17/src/mysql-5.5.16-3.fc17.src.rpm

12.2 Install the .src.rpm as 'fedora' user (It can be root also. I did it as fedora user. But you got the point)



[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# rpm -Uvh mysql-5.5.16-3.fc17.src.rpm

12.3 Update the libmysql.version file



[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cd /home/fedora/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
[root@nareshv-build64 SOURCES]# ls
filter-requires-mysql.sh    mysql-disable-test.patch     mysql-errno.patch          mysql-strmov.patch
generate-tarball.sh         mysqld-nowatch.patch         mysql-expired-certs.patch  mysql.tmpfiles.d
libmysql.version            mysqld-prepare-db-dir        mysql-install-test.patch   mysql-va-list.patch
my.cnf                      mysqld.service               mysql-openssl-test.patch   mysql-versioning.patch
my_config.h                 mysql-dubious-exports.patch  mysql-plugin-bool.patch    README.mysql-docs
mysql-5.5.16-nodocs.tar.gz  mysqld-wait-ready            mysql-s390-tsc.patch       README.mysql-license
mysql-chain-certs.patch     mysql-embedded-check.c       mysql-stack-guard.patch    scriptstub.c
[root@nareshv-build64 SOURCES]# tail libmysql.version 
 mysql_get_charset_by_csname;
 mysql_net_realloc;
# PHP's mysqli.so requires this (via the ER() macro)
 mysql_client_errors;
# Hiphop needs it
 cli_safe_read;
 net_field_length;
 cli_safe_read;
 free_root;
};

12.4 Rebuild the RPM


[fedora@nareshv-build64 SOURCES]$ rpmbuild -bb ../SPECS/mysql.spec 
...
...
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-libs-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-server-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-devel-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-embedded-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-embedded-devel-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-bench-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-test-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm

Wrote: /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-debuginfo-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.I5L4qW
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/fedora/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd mysql-5.5.16
+ rm -rf /home/fedora/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/mysql-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64
+ exit 0

12.5 Install the RPM Files happily



[root@nareshv-build64 SOURCES]# yum install /home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-libs-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm \
/home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm \
/home/fedora/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mysql-devel-5.5.16-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm -y --nogpg

13. Now build hiphop again


[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cd $HOME/dev/hiphop/hiphop-php/
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# gmake clean
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# cmake .
[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# make

14. You should have the binary created


[root@nareshv-build64 hiphop-php]# src/hphp/hphp -h | head
Error in command line: unknown option -h\n\n
HipHop Compiler for PHP Usage:

 hphp  

Options:
  --help                         display this message
  --version                      display version number
  -t [ --target ] arg (=run)     lint | analyze | php | cpp | sep-ext-cpp | 
                                 filecache | run (default)
  -f [ --format ] arg            lint: (none);

15. Now continue with the rest of the tutorial on how to get your code compiled in the main hiphop project page itself.

Node.js on Fedora 15

2011-06-29T22:25:00.007+05:30

Since currently there is no easy way to install node.js via yum repository. Here is how you can quickly get the node.js installed on your fedora-15 box

1. Install fedora packager rpms (as root)



[nareshv@localhost SRPMS]$ sudo yum groupinstall "Fedora Packager"

2. Create the setup environment for building RPM (for non-root users)



[nareshv@localhost ~]$ rpmdev-setuptree

3. Download the SRPM (as nonroot)



[nareshv@localhost ~]$ cd rpmbuild/SRPMS/
[nareshv@localhost SRPMS]$ ls
[nareshv@localhost SRPMS]$ wget http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/SRPMS/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpm
--2011-06-29 22:18:50--  http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/SRPMS/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpm
Resolving v3.sk... 91.210.183.14
Connecting to v3.sk|91.210.183.14|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4859437 (4.6M) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: ânodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpmâ

100%[====================================================>] 4,859,437    600K/s   in 11s

2011-06-29 22:19:03 (444 KB/s) - nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpm

4. Install the dependencies for the RPM (as root)



[nareshv@localhost SRPMS]$ sudo yum install openssl-devel v8-devel c-ares-devel \
                                       libev-devel libeio-devel http-parser-devel \
                                       waf libgpg-error-devel \
                                       libstdc++-devel gcc-c++ -y

5. Build the RPM (as non-root)



[nareshv@localhost SRPMS]$ rpmbuild --rebuild nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.src.rpm
...
...
...
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.OWCyPT
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd node-v0.4.1
+ DOCDIR=/home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/nodejs-0.4.1
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/nodejs-0.4.1
+ /bin/mkdir -p /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/nodejs-0.4.1
+ cp -pr ChangeLog LICENSE README.md doc /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/nodejs-0.4.1
+ exit 0
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: http_parser.so.0()(64bit) libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) libcares.so.2()(64bit) libcrypto.so.10()(64bit) libdl.so.2()(64bit) libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libeio.so.1()(64bit) libev.so.4()(64bit) libgcc_s.so.1()(64bit) libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)(64bit) libm.so.6()(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) librt.so.1()(64bit) libssl.so.10()(64bit) libstdc++.so.6()(64bit) libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)(64bit) libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4)(64bit) libutil.so.1()(64bit) libutil.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libv8-3.0.0.1.so()(64bit) libz.so.1()(64bit) rtld(GNU_HASH)
Processing files: nodejs-devel-0.4.1-1.fc15.x86_64
Provides: pkgconfig(nodejs) = 0.3.2
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: /usr/bin/pkg-config
Processing files: nodejs-debuginfo-0.4.1-1.fc15.x86_64
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.x86_64
Wrote: /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/nodejs-0.4.1-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/nodejs-devel-0.4.1-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/nodejs-debuginfo-0.4.1-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ume4Ra
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd node-v0.4.1
+ rm -rf /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nodejs-0.4.1-1.el6.x86_64
+ exit 0
Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.goIXqg
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf node-v0.4.1
+ exit 0

6. Install the RPM (as root)



[nareshv@localhost SRPMS]$ sudo yum install /home/nareshv/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/nodejs-0.4.1-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm --nogpg -y

7. Start node.js



[nareshv@localhost ~]$ node
> console.log("hello world!")
hello world!
>

Thats it!. Now you have node.js installed on your box.

Have a look at list of plugins and start playing with them.

Smashing Book 2

2011-06-06T19:20:00.003+05:30

I really love the new Smashing Book 2.

I have placed the order, the moment they released it to everyone. Somehow for the first two times i never got the book. Third time i got the book and here is it.

I really really thank the Smashing Team for their efforts. Kudos to you guys n gals !

Running Apache Traffic Server on Fedora 13

2010-09-30T19:19:00.012+05:30

Apache Traffic server from Yahoo! Inc. is really powerful, extensible web server which is proved to serve 75K reqs/sec on commodity hardware.

In this post, you'll learn how to download and run the Traffic server on your desktop, notebook.

1. Download TrafficServer 2.0.1 (latest as of 30-Sep-2010)

http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads.html

2. Install the following packages



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ sudo yum install autoconf automake  \ 
                              libtool gcc-c++ glibc-devel \
                              openssl-devel tcl-devel  \
                              expat-devel sqlite-devel  \
                              pcre-devel -y

3. Extract the trafficserver and build it



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ tar jxf trafficserver-2.0.1.tar.bz2
[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ cd trafficserver-2.0.1
[nareshv@fallenangel trafficserver-2.0.1]$ ./configure 
[nareshv@fallenangel trafficserver-2.0.1]$ gmake
[nareshv@fallenangel trafficserver-2.0.1]$ sudo gmake install

Now, all the required files would be installed in "/usr/local" instead of Fedora's default /usr. Lets configure Traffic server to act as ReverseProxy for apache

5. set servername of your proxy (so that it will come up in the HTTP headers)



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ sudo vim /usr/local/etc/trafficserver/records.config

 # Change line 22 (it might vary) to put your hostname like shown below
 22 #CONFIG proxy.config.proxy_name STRING <proxy_name>
 22 CONFIG proxy.config.proxy_name STRING fallenangel

6. Make the Traffic server listen on port 80 by default



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ sudo vim /usr/local/etc/trafficserver/records.config

# Change 8080 port to 80 like shown below
105 #CONFIG proxy.config.http.server_port INT 8080
105 CONFIG proxy.config.http.server_port INT 80

7. Make Traffic server act as reverse proxy for apache

You can add as many rules as you want. The configuration file is well defined


[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ sudo vim /usr/local/etc/trafficserver/remap.config

124 
125 map http://localhost:80/ http://localhost:8080/
126 map http://fallenangel:80/ http://localhost:8080/

8. configure apache to listen on port 8080



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# Change it from default port 80 to 8080
#Listen 80
Listen 8080

9. Restart apache



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

10. Restart traffic server



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$  sudo /usr/local/bin/trafficserver restart
Stopping traffic_cop:                                      [  OK  ]
Stopping traffic_manager:                                  [  OK  ]
Stopping traffic_server:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting Apache Traffic Server:                            [  OK  ]

11. Make simple request to your TrafficServer to test if everything is ok



[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$  ~]$ curl -v http://localhost/
* About to connect() to localhost port 80 (#0)
*   Trying ::1... Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.20.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.20.1 NSS/3.12.6.2 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.16 libssh2/1.2.4
> Host: localhost
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:47:53 GMT
< Server: ATS/2.0.1
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
< Age: 0
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Via: HTTP/1.1 fallenangel (ApacheTrafficServer/2.0.1 [cMs f ])
< 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.16 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 8080</address>
</body></html>
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0

64-bit Flash Plugin on Fedora-13 running Firefox 4

2010-09-25T19:21:00.007+05:30

Firefox 4 is around the corner, those who are running Fedora-13 and want to try out the latest 64-bit flash plugin. These are the instructions

1. Go to our mozilla plugins directory


[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ pwd
/home/nareshv/.mozilla/plugins

2. Download the latest flash plugin from the following url http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html and follow these steps

Latest download link is here.


[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ wget 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz'
--2010-09-25 19:16:17--  http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 69.192.35.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|69.192.35.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4308402 (4.1M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz”

100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 4,308,402    506K/s   in 13s     

2010-09-25 19:16:31 (332 KB/s) - “flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz” saved [4308402/4308402]

[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ tar zxf flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz 
[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ ls
flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz  libflashplayer.so  libflashplayer.so.old
[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ ls -l libflashplayer.so
-rw-rw-r--. 1 envy envy 10601968 Sep  4 04:47 libflashplayer.so

3. open http://www.youtube.com and see the flash player in action

4. Have fun with the new flash player.

Fedora 11 64-bit Final on Macbook Pro 4,1

2009-06-11T19:02:00.007+05:30

Installation Process

1. Touchpad

Touchpad doesn't work as usual during installation. Connect a USB mouse and things should be ok.

2. Install

Burn the DVD from http://fedoraproject.org and install OS as usual. If you need some help regarding the partitioning refer to this post

Post Install Process

1. BootDisk error

If you re-format all your partitions using Fedora-11 DVD during the installation, you might see this error "Invalid Boot Disk -- Insert boot disk and press any key to continue" error.

In order to fix this error, you need follow these steps

Reboot your system
Go to the 'refit' menu
Choose the second icon from the left (Partitioning tool)
If you see the 'refresh mbr', then do as requested
Thats all! Now you should be able to boot correctly into Fedora

Shutdown your macbook and reboot. Now everything should work as usual

2. Wireless

You no longer need to install the ndiswrapper manually. Configure the 'livna' repository and install the ndiswrapper.


bash$ sudo yum install ndiswrapper

Download the drivers from here, and add them to the ndiswrapper


bash$ cd /tmp/drivers
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -i *.inf
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -mi
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -ml

3. Touchpad/Tapping

Fedora 11 Automatically configures the touchpad driver using the bcm5974 driver present in the 2.6.29 kernel.

But, not all the tapping/right-click,scrolling features are available. You need to create a new .fdi file with all the options to "synaptics" driver



nareshv@localhost $ cd /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty
nareshv@localhost $ cp 10-synaptics.fdi 100-synaptics-custom.fdi

(Now edit 100-synaptics-custom.fdi, with the following contents)


nareshv@localhost $ cat 100-synaptics-custom.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE IN PLACE.
     This file will be overwritten with the next update. If you need to add
     custom options, copy the file into /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ first. 
     
     See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <!-- To add custom options for the touchpad, modify the examples below
             to suit your needs. The available options are listed in the
             "synaptics" man page. After modifyfing this file, you must
             restart HAL. Check the output of lshal whether your modifications
             have been merged successfully.

             Note: <merge key="input.x11_options.s must always be type "string".
             The following examples enable left, right, middle clicks on
             single, double, triple finger tapping, respectively.

             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge>
             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">2</merge>
        -->
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.LeftEdge" type="string">10</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.RightEdge" type="string">1200</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TopEdge" type="string">10</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.BottomEdge" type="string">370</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.FingerLow" type="string">10</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.FingerHigh" type="string">20</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">180</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">220</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.SingleTapTimeout" type="string">100</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxDoubleTapTime" type="string">180</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.LockedDrags" type="string">off</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MinSpeed" type="string">1.10</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxSpeed" type="string">1.30</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.AccelFactor" type="string">0.08</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">2</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickFinger1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickFinger2" type="string">3</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickFinger3" type="string">2</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.RTCornerButton" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.RBCornerButton" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.LTCornerButton" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.LBCornerButton" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertScrollDelta" type="string">20</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizScrollDelta" type="string">50</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

NOTE: If you want to adjust the tapping, speed of mouse scroll, do these things



nareshv@localhost $ sudo yum install gsynaptics

Make your changes. and run the following command to see the latest changes. Now use the below keywords and update the above .fdi file.



nareshv@localhost $ synclient -l
Parameter settings:
    LeftEdge                = 10
    RightEdge               = 1200
    TopEdge                 = 10
    BottomEdge              = 370
    FingerLow               = 10
    FingerHigh              = 20
    FingerPress             = 256
    MaxTapTime              = 180
    MaxTapMove              = 220
    MaxDoubleTapTime        = 180
    SingleTapTimeout        = 100
    ClickTime               = 100
    FastTaps                = 0
    EmulateMidButtonTime    = 75
    EmulateTwoFingerMinZ    = 282
    EmulateTwoFingerMinW    = 7
    VertScrollDelta         = 20
    HorizScrollDelta        = 50
    VertEdgeScroll          = 0
    HorizEdgeScroll         = 0
    CornerCoasting          = 0
    VertTwoFingerScroll     = 1
    HorizTwoFingerScroll    = 0
    MinSpeed                = 1.1
    MaxSpeed                = 0
    AccelFactor             = 1.3
    TrackstickSpeed         = 0
    EdgeMotionMinZ          = 30
    EdgeMotionMaxZ          = 160
    EdgeMotionMinSpeed      = 1
    EdgeMotionMaxSpeed      = 120
    EdgeMotionUseAlways     = 0
    UpDownScrolling         = 1
    LeftRightScrolling      = 1
    UpDownScrollRepeat      = 1
    LeftRightScrollRepeat   = 1
    ScrollButtonRepeat      = 100
    TouchpadOff             = 0
    GuestMouseOff           = 0
    LockedDrags             = 0
    LockedDragTimeout       = 5000
    RTCornerButton          = 0
    RBCornerButton          = 0
    LTCornerButton          = 0
    LBCornerButton          = 0
    TapButton1              = 0
    TapButton2              = 0
    TapButton3              = 0
    ClickFinger1            = 1
    ClickFinger2            = 3
    ClickFinger3            = 2
    CircularScrolling       = 0
    CircScrollDelta         = 0.1
    CircScrollTrigger       = 0
    CircularPad             = 0
    PalmDetect              = 0
    PalmMinWidth            = 10
    PalmMinZ                = 200
    CoastingSpeed           = 0
    PressureMotionMinZ      = 30
    PressureMotionMaxZ      = 160
    PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
    PressureMotionMaxFactor = 0
    GrabEventDevice         = 1

4. Audio

Somehow the audio doesn't work out of the box, you need to set the model option


bash$ echo "options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sound

5. Bluetooth

Works out of the box

6. Firewire

Haven't tested (Don't have a device to check)

7. Microphone

Haven't tested

8. Network Card

Works out of the box

9. Nvidia Graphics card

Works out of the box, using "nouveau" driver.

10. Keyboard special keys / Backlight

works out of the box.

11. isight (webcam)

Works out of the box.

12. Sensors

Works out of the box.


nareshv@localhost $ sensors
applesmc-isa-0300
Adapter: ISA adapter
Left side  :1996 RPM  (min = 2000 RPM)
Right side :1999 RPM  (min = 2000 RPM)
temp1:       +32.2°C                                    
temp2:       +43.2°C                                    
temp3:       +42.0°C                                    
temp4:       +52.5°C                                    
temp5:       +43.0°C                                    
temp6:       +70.0°C                                    
temp7:       +51.5°C                                    
temp8:       +42.8°C                                    
temp9:       +36.8°C                                    
temp10:      +37.0°C                                    
temp11:      +37.8°C                                    
temp12:      +34.0°C

14. Suspend , Resume

Fedora 11 still has this suspend resume bug. Upon resume we will get this error from dmesg and the mouse will be stuck


nareshv@ localhost $ | dmesg | tail -1
bcm5974: bad trackpad package, length: 8

Fix is as described in my earlier post.

(If you are running 32-bit Fedora 11 use /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64)


nareshv@nareshv «sr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d $ ls -l
total 64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2490 2009-04-24 15:21 00auto-quirk*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  274 2009-04-24 15:21 00logging*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  203 2009-04-24 15:21 00powersave*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  809 2009-04-24 15:21 01grub*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  664 2009-04-24 15:21 49bluetooth*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  991 2009-04-24 15:21 55NetworkManager*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  141 2009-02-26 19:25 56atd*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  335 2009-04-24 15:21 75modules*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  455 2009-04-24 15:21 90clock*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1098 2009-04-24 15:21 94cpufreq*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  297 2009-04-24 15:21 95led*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  707 2009-04-24 14:57 95packagekit*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2269 2009-04-24 15:21 98smart-kernel-video*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2068 2009-04-24 15:21 99hd-apm-restore.hook*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5685 2009-04-24 15:21 99video*

[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ cat /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/02touchpad
#!/bin/bash

if [ -e '/usr/lib64/pm-utils/functions' ];then
. /usr/lib64/pm-utils/functions
fi

suspend_bcm5974() { /sbin/rmmod bcm5974; }
resume_bcm5974() { /sbin/modprobe bcm5974; }

case "$1" in
    suspend|hibernate)
        suspend_bcm5974;
        ;;
    thaw|resume)
        resume_bcm5974;
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
esac

exit $?

Fedora 11 Alpha 64-bit on Macbook Pro 4,1

2009-02-07T10:09:00.003+05:30

Yesterday Fedora has Released 'Alpha' version of its upcoming Operating System code named 'Leonidas' (Version 11).

Though i already have Fedora 11 from rawhide, i had installed the Alpha version from the DVD.

NOTE: Pre-Final releases are not recommended for daily usage, be warned.

Installation Process

Touchpad

During installation you notice that the 'touchpad' doesn't work. You need to plug in a USB Mouse and proceed with the installation

The whole installation process worked seamlessly

Post Installation

Audio

This still isn't being detected correctly, i had to follow my earlier hack to get this working

create the following file.


 nareshv@nareshv:~ $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/audio
options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3

2. Ndiswrapper 1.54 version

There seem to be some problem with the 'rpmfusion' repository, so i had to compile ndiswrapper 1.54 myself. During the compilation you might see errors like this


 nareshv@nareshv:/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54 $ gmake
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver'
make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64 M=/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64'
  LD      /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/built-in.o
  MKEXPORT /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/crt_exports.h
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/crt.o
  MKEXPORT /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/hal_exports.h
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/hal.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/iw_ndis.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/loader.o
  MKEXPORT /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ndis_exports.h
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ndis.o
/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ndis.c: In function ‘NdisSystemProcessorCount’:
/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ndis.c:2627: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
  MKEXPORT /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ntoskernel_exports.h
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ntoskernel.o
  MKEXPORT /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ntoskernel_io_exports.h
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/ntoskernel_io.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/pe_linker.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/pnp.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/proc.o
  MKEXPORT /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/rtl_exports.h
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/rtl.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/wrapmem.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/wrapndis.o
/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/wrapndis.c:1747:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #.
make[3]: *** [/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver/wrapndis.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54/driver'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
 nareshv@nareshv:/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54 $

In order to get rid of that error, i had done a minor hack.


 nareshv@nareshv:/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.54 $ vim driver/wrapndis.c

1744 >___.ndo_set_mac_address = ndis_set_mac_address,
1745 >___.ndo_get_stats = ndis_get_stats,
1746 /*#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
1747 >___.poll_controller = ndis_poll_controller;
1748 #endif*/
1749 };
1750 #endif

Just comment the lines from 1746 to 1748. The compilation will work just fine.

3. KDE-4.2

Kde-4.2 is included in the latest release, which is very good in terms of rendering, when compared to the earlier versions.

You might still see some screen corruption in the system tray, which the kde team has yet to fix.

4. Pommed-1.25 for apple keyboard special keys

You need to install pommed-1.25 version, in order to run with 2.6.29 kernel

Nvidia Drivers

You no longer need to do any hacks like -IgnoreABI in order to work with xorg-1.6, Nvidia driver 180.25 has support to work with latest xorg.

Few Gotchas

sudo commands

You notice a big delay till the command is executed, when you run any sudo commands, not sure whats the problem here is.

GDM and Preferred Desktop

No matter which desktop you choose, GDM tries to reset your preferred desktop to "GNOME". For me i was choosing KDE all the time, but whenever i reboot, the default desktop is getting reset to "GNOME"

There are many other features which you can find at the release notes

Fedora 11 (Leonidas) 64-bit - Rawhide - on Macbook Pro 4,1

2009-01-13T13:31:00.002+05:30

Fedora 11 is not out yet, its just in the rawhide repository. In order to upgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, you need to do it via yum.

Pre Upgrade Steps

1. Enable the rawhide repository


cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rawhide.repo

[rawhide]
name=Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora release
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-$basearch file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

2. Remove the python-2.5 packages as it will conflict with the python-2.6 on rawhide


/bin/rpm -e fusion-icon-gtk compiz-gnome ccsm ekiga setroubleshoot setroubleshoot-server compizconfig-python fusion-desktop-effects fusion-icon fusion-icon setroubleshoot-plugins

(Skip the missing ones, i had installed extra packages, so above command worked for me)

3. Now do a yum update


sudo yum update -y

Post upgrade steps

After the installation is complete, you need to edit the following configuration files

1. Update /boot/grub/grub.conf to allow the nvidia driver to be loaded on 2.6.29 kernel


title Fedora (2.6.29-0.28.rc1.fc11.x86_64)
 root (hd0,2)
 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-0.28.rc1.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=25d9d23a-5a17-4ffe-831f-556213caaa16 rhgb quiet nopat
 initrd /initrd-2.6.29-0.28.rc1.fc11.x86_64.img

nopat is the option which you should add.

2. Current nvidia driver 180.22, doesn't work with the latest xorg that is being shipped with the Fedora 11.

You will see an error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you fail to do this step



112 ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================
113 This server has a video driver ABI version of 5.0 that this
114 driver does not officially support.  Please check
115 http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
116 server with a supported driver ABI.
117 =================================================================
118 (EE) NVIDIA: Use the -ignoreABI option to override this check.
119 (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
120 (II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
121 (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
122 (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
123 (II) Reloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
124 (EE) No drivers available.
125 
126 Fatal server error:
127 no screens found

The fix is simple (which i had mentioned earlier for the older nvidia driver)

a. Rename your current Xorg binary


mv /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/bin/Xorg.0

b. Create a blank Xorg file, make it executable


touch /usr/bin/Xorg
chmod +x /usr/bin/Xorg

c. Add the following lines


vi /usr/bin/Xorg

#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/Xorg.0 -ignoreABI "$@"

3. Thats it, now restart your macbook, and boot into the newly installed Fedora 11 Rawhide (9.10)


nareshv /etc/yum.repos.d $ cat /etc/issue
Fedora release 10.90 (Rawhide)
Kernel \r on an \m (\l)

I have just installed Fedora 11, so far seems promising, no crashes yet.

Few notes

Firefox version is bumped up to 3.1 by default

Fedora 10 64-bit on Nvidia 180.16 running 2.6.29 kernel

2009-01-05T18:36:00.002+05:30

Fedora 10 64-bit on 2.6.29 kernel with Nvidia 180.16

2.6.29 is not yet in the stable branch. Be warned

Koji has the latest 2.6.29 kernel release. In order to try that, just download the latest kernel and install them


nareshv@@ /home/nareshv/Download $ ls -l kernel*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nareshv nareshv 23262282 2009-01-05 17:01 kernel-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nareshv nareshv  6121797 2009-01-05 16:59 kernel-devel-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nareshv nareshv   388583 2009-01-05 16:59 kernel-firmware-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.noarch.rpm

Also, Trying out the Latest Nvidia Drivers on 2.6.28 is easy too. You can download the Nvidia drivers from here

First time if you boot the kernel, you will see error something like this in the xorg.log


195 (II) resource ranges after preInit:
196 >___[0] -1>_0>__0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
197 >___[1] -1>_0>__0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
198 >___[2] -1>_0>__0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
199 >___[3] -1>_0>__0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
200 >___[4] -1>_0>__0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
201 >___[5] -1>_0>__0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
202 (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
203 (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new
204 (II) NVIDIA(0):     enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events.
205 (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
206 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate video memory
207 (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
208 
209 Fatal server error:
210 AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

In order to workaround this error, you need to add the following option to the grub.conf


14 title Fedora (2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64)
 15 >___root (hd0,2)
 16 >___kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=25d9d23a-5a17-4ffe-831f-556213caaa16 rhgb quiet nopat
 17 >___initrd /initrd-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64.img

nopat is our friend here.

Enjoy your 2.6.29 kernel running latest nvidia driver on Fedora 10.

Fedora 10 64-bit on 2.6.28 kernel with Nvidia 180.16

2008-12-20T22:02:00.002+05:30

Fedora 10 64-bit on 2.6.28 kernel with Nvidia 180.16

Linux kernel 2.6.28 will be out during christmas. I Wanted to try it on my Fedora 10 Desktop. Just download the kernel,kernel-devel,kernel-firmware rpms from koji.

Also, Trying out the Latest Nvidia Drivers on 2.6.28 is easy too. You can download the Nvidia drivers from here

You need 180.16 or higher version of nvidia driver which works seamlessly with 2.6.28 kernel. Or you might have to do some hacks ;-)

64-bit Flash 10 on Fedora 10

2008-11-18T08:31:00.003+05:30

Since Adobe has released 'alpha' version of their 64-bit version of the flash player, thought i'd give it a try in Fedora 10. It just works !

Installation process is simple. Uninstall your existing flash packages.


nareshv@ >] rpm -qa \*flash\*
nareshv@ >] sudo rpm -e `rpm -qa \*flash\*`

Get the Flash Plugin from here


[nareshv@ >]$ tar zxf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
[nareshv@ >]$ ls libflashplayer.so
libflashplayer.so
[nareshv@ >]$ cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Thats it. Restart your browser, you should see the flash plugin present in firefox (check it by typing about:plugins in the address bar.)

Attached are the two screenshots on my Fedora10 Macbook.

1. Yahoo! Music playing videos with the new 64-bit flash-player.

2. Firefox 'about:plugins' window showing the new 64-bit Flash Player

Fedora 10 Final on Macbook Pro

2008-11-13T21:22:00.005+05:30

I've been using Fedora-10 Since its Beta on my Macbook Pro. As always the F-10 Is available to the rawhide users, before its available to the outside world.


[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
Kernel \r on an \m (\l)
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ date
Thu Nov 13 21:28:13 IST 2008

All other users need to wait for the Final ISOs to come out. So far experience with Fedora 10 is really fantastic compared with the previous releases.

AFAIK, all the devices are working out of the box. Even i can Hibernate My Notebook With Fedora 10, Atleast KDE4 is doing that when my battery runs out (which was not possible in earlier releases).

Here is the Link to the Installation on Macbook

Notes: NetworkManager now connects to the wireless networks flawlessly. Previously i had to try connecting few times to the wireless networks (atleast with the airtel wifi modem in india)

Fedora 10-Beta 64-bit on Macbook Pro 4,1

2008-10-05T15:04:00.018+05:30

Am using Fedora 10 Final release now(Nov-13-2008) (from rawhide) see this post
Blog Last Updated: Sunday Nov 16 2008 IST Quirk for the touchpad is updated

Fedora 10 Version: Applied all updates from rawhide as of Sunday Nov 2 2008 IST

Installation Process

Partitioning and Installation process is as described in my previous post

Post Installation Process

1. Wireless

You no longer need to install the ndiswrapper manually. Configure the 'livna' repository and install the ndiswrapper.


bash$ sudo yum install ndiswrapper

Download the drivers from here, and add them to the ndiswrapper


bash$ cd /tmp/drivers
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -i *.inf
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -mi
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -ml

2. Touchpad/Tapping

Fedora 10 Automatically configures the touchpad driver using the bcm5974 driver present in the 2.6.27 kernel.

But, not all the tapping/right-click,scrolling features are available. You need to create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf (yea, with Fedora 10 there is no xorg.conf!), with the following options.

(If you are on 64-bit Fedora use /usr/lib64 in the xorg.conf)



Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "Default Layout"
   Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
   InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
   ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
   ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load           "synaptics" 
   Load           "extmod"
   Load           "dbe"
   Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
   Driver         "synaptics"
   Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
   Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
   Option         "SHMConfig" "true"
   Option         "LeftEdge" "10"
   Option         "RightEdge" "1200"
   Option         "TopEdge" "10"
   Option         "BottomEdge" "370"
   Option         "FingerLow" "10"
   Option         "FingerHigh" "20"
   Option         "MaxTapTime" "180"
   Option         "MaxTapMove" "220"
   Option         "SingleTapTimeout" "100"
   Option         "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
   Option         "LockedDrags" "off"
   Option         "MinSpeed" "1.10"
   Option         "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
   Option         "AccelFactor" "0.08"
   Option         "TapButton1" "1"
   Option         "TapButton2" "3"
   Option         "TapButton3" "2"
   Option         "RTCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "RBCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "LTCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "LBCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "VertScrollDelta" "20"
   Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "50"
   Option         "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
   Option         "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
   Option         "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
   Option         "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

   # keyboard added by rhpxl
   Identifier     "Keyboard0"
   Driver         "kbd"
   Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier     "Monitor0"
   VendorName     "Unknown"
   ModelName      "Unknown"
   HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
   VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
   Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier     "Videocard0"
   Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier     "Screen0"
   Device         "Videocard0"
   Monitor        "Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth    24

   Option        "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
   Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
   Option        "TripleBuffer" "True"
   Option        "UseDamageEvents" "True"
   Option        "UseRandR" "True"
   Option        "RenderAccel" "True"
   Option        "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "False"
   Option        "RandRRotation" "True"
   Option        "DynamicTwinView" "True"
   Option        "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
   Option        "ConnectToAcpid" "True"
   Option        "EnableACPIHotkeys" "True"
   Option        "UseEvents" "True"
   Option        "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
   Option        "NvAGP" "0"

   SubSection     "Display"
       Viewport    0 0
       Depth       24
   EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
  Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

3. Audio

Somehow the audio doesn't work out of the box, you need to set the model option


bash$ echo "options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sound

4. Bluetooth

Works out of the box

5. Firewire

Haven't tested (Don't have a device to check)

6. Microphone

Haven't tested

7. Suspend/Hibernate (Latest quirk updated on 16-Nov-2008)

Touchpad doesn't work after resume. Here is the quirk for that


1. create the following file

(If you are running 32-bit Fedora 10 use /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64)

[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/
total 80
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2425 2008-11-04 18:03 00auto-quirk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  274 2008-11-04 18:03 00logging
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  203 2008-11-04 18:03 00powersave
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  809 2008-11-04 18:03 01grub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  341 2008-11-15 18:52 02touchpad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  664 2008-11-04 18:03 49bluetooth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  447 2008-11-04 18:03 50ntpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  429 2008-11-04 18:03 55battery
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 2008-11-04 18:03 55NetworkManager
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  409 2008-11-04 18:03 65alsa
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  335 2008-11-04 18:03 75modules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  391 2008-11-04 18:03 90chvt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  419 2008-11-04 18:03 90clock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1098 2008-11-04 18:03 94cpufreq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  297 2008-11-04 18:03 95led
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  707 2008-11-05 15:31 95packagekit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2920 2008-11-04 18:03 98smart-kernel-video
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2068 2008-11-04 18:03 99hd-apm-restore.hook
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5492 2008-11-04 18:03 99video

[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ cat /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/02touchpad
#!/bin/bash

if [ -e '/usr/lib64/pm-utils/functions' ];then
. /usr/lib64/pm-utils/functions
fi

suspend_bcm5974() { /sbin/rmmod bcm5974; }
resume_bcm5974() { /sbin/modprobe bcm5974; }

case "$1" in
    suspend|hibernate)
        suspend_bcm5974;
        ;;
    thaw|resume)
        resume_bcm5974;
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
esac

exit $?

2. Now suspend/resume should work without any problems.

NOTE: Earlier, i was adding the script to /etc/pm/sleep.d directory, which seem to have the problem i mentioned in this bug, if you follow the above quirk, all your sensitivity/tapping things as mentioned in the xorg.conf should work as expected after the resume/hibernate.

8. Hibernate

Works out of the box.

(I am using KDE as my default desktop, sometimes i leave my notebook on battery and go out, KDE automatically takes care of hibernating the laptop when battery power reaches critical state. Resuming from hibernate works cool too!). My kernel version is 2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64

9. Network Card

Works out of the box

10. Nvidia Graphics card

Works out of the box.

In order to make use of the compiz-fusion you need to install the latest 177.78 driver from livna repository.

11. Keyboard special keys / Backlight

Install pommed from this location. After installation edit the /etc/pommed.conf


[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d

[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ wget http://www.diffingo.com/downloads/diffingo-repo/diffingo.repo

[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ sudo yum install pommed

NOTES: Keyboard backlit and sensors support in Fedora 10 is available from 2.6.27.3-34.rc1.fc10 or higher kernel, as the correct patches were applied to applesmc driver

12. isight (webcam)

Works out of the box.

13. Plymouth Graphical Plugins

By default you wont be able to see the latest plymouth graphical plugin on your macbook after the installation. Here is the quirk for that ( add vga=0x318 option to your /etc/grub.conf)

If you want to see the power of plymouth in action . see the videos
Here is mine.


# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda3
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-109.fc10.x86_64)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-109.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9972fac9-aba9-443e-a6a1-de3e0a0e8147  vga=0x318 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-109.fc10.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9972fac9-aba9-443e-a6a1-de3e0a0e8147  vga=0x318 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.27-3.applesmc.fc10.x86_64)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-3.applesmc.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9972fac9-aba9-443e-a6a1-de3e0a0e8147  vga=0x318 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.27-3.applesmc.fc10.x86_64.img
title Other
        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
        chainloader +1

After adding the vga= option to your grub.conf there is a default plugin which will be used. If you want to use the Fedora's solar plugin. run these commands and reboot Fedora 10 to see the plugin in action.


[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ sudo plymouth-set-default-plugin solar
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

References

Below documentations are verymuch useful in case of any problems.

[1] Fedora : http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Fedora8OnMacBookSantaRosa
[2] Ubuntu : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Macbook_Air
[3] Wifi Drivers : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp37501-38000/sp37950.exe

Fedora 9 on MacBook Pro penryn (Intel)

2008-09-24T12:59:00.005+05:30

Pre Installation Process

Macbook has a single harddisk with two partitions, first one is for the EFI, second one is for the MacOSX itself. Resize the second partition to allow some space for Linux.

After step-1 you have 3 partitions on your system. Do not touch the first and second partitions, you might loose your whole data on MacOSX

Install rEFIt from here http://refit.sourceforge.net/. rEFIt scans all the available partitions/harddisks/removable devices for the Boot Images. After we install rEFIt we don't have to do any special configurations etc, it will auto-detect things for us.

Installation Process

Insert your Fedora 9 DVD into the notebook and reboot your Mac.

rEFIt asks you to choose the 'bootable DVD' or 'MacOSX' for booting. Select the 'Tux' icon with arrow keys, now you can boot into the Fedora 9 Install system

Answer all the questions as usual during the install process. Be careful at the partitioning page. Choose 'create custom layout'.
1. Select the Last partition(/dev/sda3) that we've created on disk (extreme right block on the gui). Click on 'Delete' partition (Double check that you are deleting the right partition)
2. Now you'll have free space on your system
3. Lets create 3 partitions from the free space.
4. Create new partition for /boot with 200MB of space (/dev/sda3)
5. Create new partition for swap with 2GB of space
6. Create new partition for / with the rest of available space (/dev/sda4)

After you are done with the changes click 'apply' (This step writes the requested changes to disk, double check before applying your changes)

Customize your packages and proceed with the rest of the installation

Post Installation Process

1. Wireless Setup

windows driver package from here



 [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd /tmp/ndis
 [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ pwd
 /tmp/ndis/sp37950a
 [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ ls
 bcm43xx64.cat  bcm43xx.cat  bcmwl564.sys  bcmwl5.inf  bcmwl5.sys  bcmwlcoi64.dll  bcmwlcoi.dll  Setup.exe  sp37950.cva


   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ mkdir /tmp/ndiswrapper/
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd /tmp/ndiswrapper/
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ svn co https://ndiswrapper.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndiswrapper ndiswrapper 
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ pwd
   /tmp/ndiswrapper
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ ls
   branches  trunk
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd trunk/
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ ls
   CVSROOT  ndiswrapper
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd ndiswrapper/
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ ls
   AUTHORS  ChangeLog  driver  INSTALL  loadndisdriver.8  Makefile  ndiswrapper.8  ndiswrapper.spec  README  utils


   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ make

   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ sudo make install



   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd /tmp/ndis/sp37950a/
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf


   [nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
   bcmwl5 : driver installed
           device (14E4:4328) present (alternate driver: ssb)


   [nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -ma
   module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -mi
   module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -m
   [nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
   alias wlan0 ndiswrapper


  [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper


  [nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ /sbin/iwconfig wlan0

Bluetooth

Audio


[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ echo "options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Ethernet card

Nvidia Graphics

Keyboard special keys / Backlight



[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d

[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ wget http://www.diffingo.com/downloads/diffingo-repo/diffingo.repo

[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ sudo yum install pommed

Touchpad/Tapping

See this ticket for reference

dkms package



# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Wed Aug 27 13:20:19
# PDT 2008

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "Default Layout"
   Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
   InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
   ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
   ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load           "synaptics" 
   Load           "extmod"
   Load           "dbe"
   Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
   Driver         "synaptics"
   Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
   Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
   Option         "SHMConfig" "true"
   Option         "LeftEdge" "10"
   Option         "RightEdge" "1200"
   Option         "TopEdge" "10"
   Option         "BottomEdge" "370"
   Option         "FingerLow" "10"
   Option         "FingerHigh" "20"
   Option         "MaxTapTime" "180"
   Option         "MaxTapMove" "220"
   Option         "SingleTapTimeout" "100"
   Option         "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
   Option         "LockedDrags" "off"
   Option         "MinSpeed" "1.10"
   Option         "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
   Option         "AccelFactor" "0.08"
   Option         "TapButton1" "1"
   Option         "TapButton2" "3"
   Option         "TapButton3" "2"
   Option         "RTCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "RBCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "LTCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "LBCornerButton" "0"
   Option         "VertScrollDelta" "20"
   Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "50"
   Option         "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
   Option         "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
   Option         "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
   Option         "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

   # keyboard added by rhpxl
   Identifier     "Keyboard0"
   Driver         "kbd"
   Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier     "Monitor0"
   VendorName     "Unknown"
   ModelName      "Unknown"
   HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
   VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
   Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier     "Videocard0"
   Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier     "Screen0"
   Device         "Videocard0"
   Monitor        "Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth    24

   Option        "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
   Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
   Option        "TripleBuffer" "True"
   Option        "UseDamageEvents" "True"
   Option        "UseRandR" "True"
   Option        "RenderAccel" "True"
   Option        "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "False"
   Option        "RandRRotation" "True"
   Option        "DynamicTwinView" "True"
   Option        "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
   Option        "ConnectToAcpid" "True"
   Option        "EnableACPIHotkeys" "True"
   Option        "UseEvents" "True"
   Option        "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
   Option        "NvAGP" "0"

   SubSection     "Display"
       Viewport    0 0
       Depth       24
   EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
  Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


 sudo yum --enable-repo=fedora-rawhide update kernel kernel-devel



 cd /tmp/ndiswrapper/trunk/ndiswrapper && make uninstall && make && make install && modprobe ndiswrapper


 echo "applesmc" >> /etc/modporbe.d/blacklist

 rmmod applesmc

Suspend

Hibernate

Microphone

iSight (webcam)


bash$ sudo yum install isight-firmware-tools


bash$ sudo yum install cheese

References

Fedora 9 and Thunderbird / Lightning problem

2008-09-23T20:50:00.005+05:30

Here goes the problem description,

You've installed Fedora without any development stuff on your notebook/workstation, Using thunderbird as the official mail client, using lightning as your default calendar handler.

If you are in the above case, you might face this wierd problem. Lightning extension does not show you the timezones, doesn't recognize the .ics invites which are present in the email. Here is why

Look at the following image for a description of what happens.

The problem could be that, you don't have the libstdc++.so.5 installed on your box. The lightning project also says the same. But the lightning extension fails to detect the presence of the shared library. This html tidy extension does good job of identifying the missing shared library.

In order to fix the problem with lightning, install the compat-libstdc++-3 package


bash$ sudo yum install libstdc++.so.5

Now, relaunch your thunderbird, lightning will work fine. It took quite sometime for me to figure out whats the real problem is.

Hope this trick will help you guys out.

Fedora 9 and Nvidia xorg 1.5 compatible driver (nvidia 174.14.05 version)

2008-05-29T15:44:00.005+05:30

Nvidia has just released its latest xorg-1.5 supported driver. All the Fedora 9 Owners who are eagerly waiting for the latest nvidia driver rejoice !.

Installation of this is pretty easy, just follow these steps.

1. Add Freshrpms to your repository


sudo rpm -Uvh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/9/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

2. Install the nvidia driver


sudo yum install nvidia-x11-drv

3. Logout of X and go to runlevel 1 or 3


sudo init 1

4. Update your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make use of new nvidia driver. (mine is follows)


[nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Wed Jun 13 18:39:30 PDT 2007
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
       Identifier     "single head configuration"
       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
       InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
       ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
       ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
       Load  "glx"
       Load  "extmod"
   Load  "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Synaptics"
   Driver      "synaptics"
   Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option        "Protocol" "auto-dev"
   Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Monitor0"
   VendorName   "HP"
   ModelName    "Unknown"
   ModeLine     "1280x800_60.00" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsync
   Option        "DPMS"
   #[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ gtf 1280 800 60
          # 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Videocard0"
   Driver      "nvidia"
   VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
   BoardName   "GeForce Go 7400"
   VideoRam    268435456
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device     "Videocard0"
   Monitor    "Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth     24
   Option        "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
   Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
   Option        "TripleBuffer" "True"
   Option        "UseDamageEvents" "True"
   Option        "UseRandR" "True"
   #Option        "RenderAccel" "True"
   Option        "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "False"
   Option        "RandRRotation" "True"
   Option        "DynamicTwinView" "False"
   Option        "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
   Option        "ConnectToAcpid" "True"
   Option        "EnableACPIHotkeys" "True"
   Option        "UseEvents" "True"
   Option        "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
   Option        "NvAGP" "0"
   SubSection "Display"
       Viewport   0 0
       Depth     24
       Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

5. Now follow step-6, only if you have renamed the /usr/bin/Xorg as per my previous blog post

6. Remove the Shell Script


# mv /usr/bin/Xorg.0 /usr/bin/Xorg

7. Load the nvidia kernel module


# modprobe nvidia

8. Go to Run level 5 (GUI)


# init 5

Now you should have the system using the Latest nvidia driver as the default, with all the compiz,3d, everything working!

Here is my screenshot of running glxgears with 1600fps

Now you can start enjoying KDE4 with all the 3d effects !. Many thanks to nvidia for the much awaited compatibility with xorg-1.5

Fedora 9 and Nouveau Nvidia Driver

2008-05-15T09:18:00.009+05:30

Given that the current nvidia driver does not support all the fancy features which are required to run a fully productive desktop, i've tried to see the current state of the nouveau

Fedora 9 currently does not ship the 'nouvea_dri.so' with its mesa rpms. In order to get the feel of the dri using nouveau, i've compiled the mesa drivers from sources.

Instructions follows

NOTE: Do not report any issues to Fedora Bugzilla or Nouveau Bugzilla when using the Gallium Drivers. These are completely experimental.

NOTE: Since the gallium 3d does not support all the Visuals (ARGBGLX) required to run compiz, compiz does not work.

0. Below are my Hardware Details

Smolt profile :: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_af62c229-68e1-4b66-9171-b8be36c7a3fd



[nareshv@fallenAngel mesa]$ /sbin/lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400] (rev a1)

1. Get the mesa sources (50M sources) using git


cd /tmp 
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/mesa

2. Switch to the gallium-0.1 branch



cd mesa/
git checkout origin/gallium-0.1
git checkout -b gallium-0.1

3. Configure the Library installation paths. (open and edit the file so that below 2 settings should be like this)


[nareshv@fallenAngel configs]$ pwd
/tmp/mesa/configs
[nareshv@fallenAngel configs]$ grep INSTALL_DIR default | grep -v SEARCH
INSTALL_DIR = /usr/
DRI_DRIVER_INSTALL_DIR = /usr/lib/dri/

4. Make sure you have all the Xorg development libraries installed.


[root@fallenAngel ~]# rpm -qa lib\*-devel
libacl-devel-2.2.47-1.fc9.i386
libXfixes-devel-4.0.3-3.fc9.i386
libSM-devel-1.0.2-5.fc9.i386
libattr-devel-2.4.41-1.fc9.i386
libogg-devel-1.1.3-9.fc9.i386
libuser-devel-0.56.9-1.i386
libXau-devel-1.0.3-5.fc9.i386
libXmu-devel-1.0.4-1.fc9.i386
libcap-devel-2.06-4.fc9.i386
libxml2-devel-2.6.32-1.fc9.i386
libxcb-devel-1.1-4.fc9.i386
libX11-devel-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386
libdrm-devel-2.4.0-0.11.fc9.i386
libXt-devel-1.0.4-5.fc9.i386
libsepol-devel-2.0.26-1.fc9.i386
libgdiplus-devel-1.9-4.fc9.i386
libcurl-devel-7.18.1-1.fc9.i386
libXdmcp-devel-1.0.2-5.fc9.i386
libXdamage-devel-1.1.1-4.fc9.i386
libXxf86vm-devel-1.0.1-5.fc9.i386
libselinux-devel-2.0.61-1.fc9.i386
libXext-devel-1.0.4-1.fc9.i386
libXi-devel-1.1.3-4.fc9.i386
libstdc++-devel-4.3.0-8.i386
libidn-devel-0.6.14-7.i386
libvorbis-devel-1.2.0-3.fc9.i386
libICE-devel-1.0.4-3.fc9.i386

5. Start building mesa for your OS (i386 or x86_64)


[nareshv@fallenAngel mesa]$ ls
bin        configs  doxygen  Makefile  SConstruct  winddk.py
common.py  docs     include  progs     src
[nareshv@fallenAngel mesa]$ make DRI_DIRS=nouveau linux-dri-x86

(replace linux-dri-x86 with linux-dri-x86_64 if you are on 64bit Fedora)

8. Try running glxgears with the latest drivers that are built


bash$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/tmp/mesa/lib" LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/tmp/mesa/lib" glxgears

9. Verify that the screen has direct rendering enabled


[nareshv@fallenAngel tmp]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/tmp/mesa/lib" LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/tmp/mesa/lib" glxinfo 2>/dev/null | grep ^OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. and nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.1, NV46 on Nouveau/DRI
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.1
OpenGL extensions:

9. Screenshot with Gallium3d on my desktop ( I am getting from 900fps to 1200fps !, while the nouveau driver without this gallium gives only 250fps [same with nv driver])

10. I dont have any games to test the FPS, but you can try running openarena and see things working

NOTE: Remember, this gallium 3d is completely experimental and may not work with all the nvidia chipsets and might even crash your X when running heavy 3d applications. DONT REPORT ANY ISSUES WITH NOUVEAU TEAM WHEN USING GALLIUM

HP Pavilion Webcam on Fedora 9

2008-04-14T03:20:00.004+05:30

Folks at mediati are working hard to bring the r5u870 webcam work with the latest linux kernels, after the initial work done by Sam Revitch on this type of webcam.

I've again built the rpm package to work with the Latest Fedora 9 (rawhide as of 14-apr-08). Older RPM with the source code from Sam Revitch can be downloaded here http://lsb.blogdns.com/ry5u870

Download this Package for Fedora dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-8.noarch.rpm.bz2 , this package compiles on all fedora distributions with linux kernel higher than 2.6.16 (even the latest 2.6.25-rc9, Fedora 9)

Installation process

1. Download and extract this file

 bunzip2 dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-8.noarch.rpm.bz2

2. Install this package with yum.

yum install ./dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-8.noarch.rpm --nogpg

3. Start your favorite viewer to see the webcam (ex. tvtime)


tvtime

NOTE: Currently cheese is not able to read from the webcam for some reason (tested in Fedora 9 rawhide). But the webcam works in gstreamer-properties

Fedora 9 and Latest Nvidia 173.08 Driver

2008-04-12T20:23:00.015+05:30

Nvidia has released its latest version of the xorg 1.5 compatible drivers. You no longer need to follow my techique for 173.08 version driver . See my new blog entry for details

Nvidia has released its latest drivers for Linux which has support for the latest x.org versions (1.5) which are used in the Fedora 9 release (currently beta was released). Follow these steps in order to use the latest Nvidia driver in your Fedora 9

NOTE: I really tested and using these things in my laptop currently, things should work for others too. THIS METHOD IS COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED BY FEDORA FOLKS, BUT WORKS.

[NOTE] This process works on Latest Fedora 9 Too. But you'll not be able to make use of any of the glx capabilities , so all the commands like glxgears, nvidia-settings will give errors

step-1 : Install the Latest nvidia driver (download rpm from freshrpms or livna)

yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia

step-2 : Nvidia suggests that we use the -ignoreABI option to use these drivers with the latest xorg servers. Follow these steps to setup such way.

1. Logout of X ( preferably go to runlevel 3 or 1, anything other than 5)

init 3

2. Rename the /usr/bin/Xorg binary to any other name like /usr/bin/Xorg.o

mv /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/bin/Xorg.0

3. Create a shell script named /usr/bin/Xorg

touch /usr/bin/Xorg
chmod +x /usr/bin/Xorg

4. Now edit the /usr/bin/Xorg and put these two lines

vi /usr/bin/Xorg

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/Xorg.0 -ignoreABI "$@"

5. close the file

6. Confirm that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf has the driver set as 'nvidia'

my xorg.conf follows


[nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier     "Default Layout"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
Option        "IgnoreABI" "true"
Option        "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "glx"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri2"
Load  "dri"
Load  "xtrap"
Load  "GLcore"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard0"
Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth     24
Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option        "UseDamageEvents" "True"
Option        "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

7. Reboot into runlevel 5.

init 5.

8. Now you should see the system using nvidia driver as the default one.

Few Gotchas:

1. Currently only 2D works, NVIDIA is working on getting 3D as soon as x.org 1.5 version is released.

2. None of the 3d commands work glxinfo,glxgears, all because of lack of 3d support.

3. Now i am able to play the movies in mplayer when i've replaced the nvidia's libwfb.so with libwfb.so the xorg itself has.

-- last updated (Fri April 18 2008)

Using Telugu Spell Checker in Fedora 8

2007-11-17T17:22:00.001+05:30

Spell checking in telugu language is pretty easy in Linux, you can install the 'aspell' telugu sets and start spell checking. Below are the steps to do on a Fedora 8 System.

1. Install the aspell-te package if you haven't done it already


nareshv@fallenangel $ sudo yum install aspell-te -y

nareshv@fallenangel $ rpm -qi aspell-te
Name        : aspell-te                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.01                              Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc8                         Build Date: Mon 10 Sep 2007 05:27:41 PM IST
Install Date: Mon 12 Nov 2007 06:34:46 PM IST      Build Host: hammer2.fedora.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Text             Source RPM: aspell-te-0.01-2.fc8.src.rpm
Size        : 2355665                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 25 Oct 2007 03:31:26 AM IST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://aspell.net/
Summary     : GNU Aspell Telugu Dictionary Package
Description :
GNU Aspell Telugu Dictionary Package

nareshv@fallenangel $ rpm -ql aspell-te
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/te.dat
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/te.multi
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/te.rws
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/telugu.alias
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/u-telu.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/u-telu.cset
/usr/share/doc/aspell-te-0.01
/usr/share/doc/aspell-te-0.01/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aspell-te-0.01/Copyright

After the package is installed, try creating a sample telugu document

Below image explains the sample document.

Now run the aspell command like below


[nareshv@fallenangel Desktop]$ cp telugu.txt telugu2.txt
[nareshv@fallenangel Desktop]$ aspell -l te -c telugu2.txt
[nareshv@fallenangel Desktop]$ gedit telugu2.txt
[nareshv@fallenangel Desktop]$

See the changes in the below image

Its very easy to run the aspell on any text document which is in telugu.

You can download the wordlist that is used in the latest aspell version here.

For the impatient this is the direct link (te.wl.gz)

2007-11-03T14:02:00.000+05:30

blueman rpm for Fedora 8

yesterday i was searching for a good front end software which helps in using the bluetooth easy in the gnome desktop environment. after searching in yahoo, found the software http://www.gnomefiles.com/app.php/blueman. The software is really cool and is written in python.

Using blueman after extracting it from source is pretty easy. But in order to use all the features you need to have btsco/libsbc and btsco kernel modules.

In order to maintain the software easy on RPM based systems, i'd created a spec file and created the rpm. The spec file is here


#
# Spec file written and maintained by naresh , cyan_00391 At yahoo dot co dot in
#
Summary: Bluetooth Manager for GNOME Desktop
Name: blueman
Version: 0.19
Release: 2%{?dist}
License: GPL
Group: Applications/Accessories
URL: http://blueman.tuxfamily.org/
Source: http://blueman.sf.net/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRequires: gcc
Requires: pybluez gnome-bluetooth dbus-python
Requires: bluez-utils > 3.9
##
## bluetooth-alsa-btsco, libsbc and dkms-btsco are built by me for fc8
## and are not widely available in fedora world. Not sure where to put
## these packages/spec files
##
Requires: bluetooth-alsa-btsco
Requires: libsbc
Requires: dkms-btsco
Packager: Naresh Kumar 

%description
Blueman is a GTK+ bluetooth management utility for GNOME using bluez dbus backend.
The aim is to create a full featured graphical bluetooth manager for Linux.

Features:

  * Easy to use interface
  * Storing Favourite devices
  * Send files
  * Browse files on devices
  * List all seen devices
  * View Local/Remote Device information
  * Configure local devices
  * Manage Pairing (Bonding)
  * Host/Connect to Personal Area Networks
  * Bind services to /dev/rfcomm ports, for eg. connecting via gprs
  * Connect to Bluetooth headsets and use them as ALSA audio devices.

%prep
%setup -n blueman-%{version}

%build

%install
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}

make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%files
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%exclude /usr/share/applications
%doc COPYING DEPENDENCIES README
%{_datadir}/blueman/*
%{_datadir}/blueman/icons/*
#%{_datadir}/applications/*
%{_datadir}/blueman/lib/*
%{_bindir}/*


%changelog
* Wed Nov 2 2007 Naresh  0.19.2-fc8
- Cleaned up the code a bit.

* Wed Nov 2 2007 Naresh  0.19.1-fc8
- Initial Revision

Although this says btsco and libsbc as prerequisites, you can easily build the rpm by just downloading the source files from the blueman home page download link

2006-11-23T13:36:00.000+05:30

When google search failed to fetch proper results

* My Nvidia GeForge Go 7400 is having refresh problem in my laptop.
* Searched on Google. It returned all bullshit results . Here is what i tried
http://tinyurl.com/yhokll

* No Luck.!

* I searched on Yahoo! Now . Exactly what i wanted.

http://tinyurl.com/yg6zkb

When people praise google as the best engine. It failed to search my query.

2006-04-19T12:17:00.000+05:30

Making Calendar work with Thunderbird and Outlook

Many people who uses thunderbird want to exchange calendars with Windows Outlook.

Here is the new plugin for the thunderbird.Lightning Project. This plugin allows you to manage calendars..etc

Here is a simple trick to import M$ Outlook invitations.
(1) Install the Lightning extension
(2) Restart thunderbird
(3) Ask your friends who are in Outlook, to send an invite
(4) The invite contains the following attachments
- .ics file ( the ical standard file)
- Part 1.1.1 ( something like this)
(5) If i see the 2nd type of file. Rename it to something meaningful like 'abc.ics'
(6) Thunderbird=>Calendar=>Import
(7) Now u have the tasks imported into your thunderbird !

Here are some images.