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Clean Install
Jun 27th
Well, I ended up installing a fresh copy of Fedora 9 this morning. Didn’t take long at all. I didn’t have the patients to try and figure out why my xserver wouldn’t work after my upgrade from Werewolf to Sulphur. When I got home yesterday I reinstalled my video card drivers, for my nVidia GeForce 8600 GT, but that didn’t fix the problem. Oh well, the good thing is I’m back up and running with the latest version of Fedora – so now I just have to remount my DATA partition and restore my home directory.
Unable to Connect to Xserver
Jun 26th
So last night I finally decided to upgrade my home desktop from Fedora 8: Werewolf (best name ever) to Fedora 9: Sulphur. My main reasoning was to get Banshee 1.0 installed and have a happier podcasting life. Lukily for me I have a seperate partition to store my data and I backed up my /home directory. Not all the files just the ones I thought were important, which included most of the [dot][files/folders].
Silence
Jun 24th
I am experiencing a deafening silience when it comes to the audio on my Fedora box. As of this article being published I can not hear audio playing on my computer. Such as:
- MP3s, Oggs
- YouTube, Hulu, and Flash-based player
Ironically when I do a “Soundcard Detection” it does find it, I hear the test audio. I can even hear my recording that I just created in Audacity. I am at a lotal lost.
The Linuxapade Chronicles
Jun 23rd
I’ve created a new category called “Linuxapade” – from the multilingual word “escapade“. I wanted to see if I can document my adventures with the wonderful, yet frustrating, yet rewarding world of linux. It’s a mad house over here, almost like going on a seven day adventure to the land of nowhere and you learn to build fire by your self, hunt for your food, enjoy the kill and the feast. In this case you’re actually forced to learn how an operating system works and hardware, etc. It doesn’t do it for you like Windows or MAC. There are some automated features that work out-of-the-box, but if it starts to break you have no choice, but to find a solution – no matter how many hours it’ll take you to first understand how this device is supposed to work.
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