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Pulseaudio Preferences (paprefs)

yum install paprefs

Fedora 9 x86_64: use flash-plugin with firefox.i386 ro firefox.x86_64

I tried both firefox.i386 and firefox.x86_64 with flash-plugin from Adobe. I prefer the x86_64, because I found it:

it runs faster than i386 version.
it pulls in fewer i386 packages (61 vs 78).
I had issues update firefox.i386 once in a while due to the mixed i386 and x86_64 repos.

Here are the instructions on

Installing firefox.i386 on FC9 x86_64 and adding flash-plugin to both firefox.i386 and firefox.x64_64.

However there seems to be a memory leak with the npviewer.bin that comes with one of the nspluginwrapper.

Fedora: lose my mouse with NODUSM3 SR2177CL

Can not remember if it is related to the motherboard or the graphics card which is GeForce 6150 LE. Add the following line in xorg.conf fixed it

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Generic Video Card"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Generic Video Card"
    Monitor        "SyncMaster"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
    Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"  #power saving
    Option         "Coolbits" "1"                     #enable overclocking
    Option         "HWCursor" "Off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Note: HWCursor OFF is no longer required in Fedora 10, in fact it cause problem with the cursor with compiz.

For compiz, I added the following lines:


    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"

Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

Slow Internet / DNS with Fedora

Generally disabling IPv6 should fix it.

In
my case, it did not. Later, I found out that it was a problem with my
DSL 604+ router (with DSN relay enabled that causes cache overflow).
After I disabled DNS relay on the router or add the DNS servers
manually to /etc/resolv.conf, the browser and internet connection
became very fast.

Fedora 9: pirut

It is replaced with packagekit in fc9. When I upgrade to fc9, pirut
stayed in fc8. When I removed it and reinstalled it, packagekit got
installed instead.

Fedora 9: scim not working in XFCE after upgrading

scim was working in XFCE when I upgraded from fc6 to fc7, and from fc7 to fc8. But is not working when I upgraded to fc9.

solution:

yum install imsettings-xfce

General scim setup help, check out http://runab.livejournal.com/9375.html

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