Oct 26, 2012
How To Install and Configure HPLIP on Fedora 17
It’s great to have all-in-one devices and some of the great printers that HP makes but, it is also sometimes an issue in Linux to not be able to use all of the features and functionality. With HP this is not a big issue with HPLIP. HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) is print, scan and fax drivers for Linux. While CUPS is great for getting the basics for printing there are some of the CUPS drivers... read more
Oct 25, 2012
How to install NIVIDIA drivers on Fedora 17
Recently i felt the need to upgrade the video card to an NVIDIA GT610 on my Fedora 17 system and with that thought installing the proprietary drivers might be a good idea. Lucky for me rpmfusion provides the drivers I am looking for installation. First step is to make sure your are at the latest kernel, so run $ sudo yum update kernel\* selinux-policy\* and reboot after completed. Second step is to make... read more
Oct 21, 2012
How to Install VMWare Workstation 8.0.4 on Fedora 17
Recently ran into an issue were I was receiving VMWare module compilation errors when installing VMWare Workstation 8.0.4. The error I was receiving was it couldn’t execute and find the kernel-headers which were installed but not where VMWare was looking for them. Download and install latest licensed version 8.0.4 from http://www.vmware.com/support $ chmod +x... read more
Oct 20, 2012
Plex Media Server Startup soci_error
A good friend of mine recently ran into an issue where Plex Media Server running on Fedora would not start up. After multiple times trying to start\stop it, deleted pid files, removing subsys lock files, discovered that /var was full, so it couldn’t write something during startup which was causing it not to start. Receiving an error similar to this: Starting PlexMediaServer: terminate called after... read more
Oct 16, 2012
How To Play Blu-Ray on Fedora 17
Always wanting to be able to do the same thing on Linux that I do on Windows I found myself taking the challenge of playing Blu-Ray on Linux. There are several posts on the net that explain how to achieve this on Ubuntu but not any on Fedora. One thing that was common was the mention of the VideoLan project and VLC which had created the libaacs and libbluray libraries needed for BluRay playback. All that... read more
