Tag: fedora

Ran the upgrade to Fedora 22 yesterday using the fedup utility. With the Fedora 20->21 upgrade, a –product option was added to fedup to allow the user to select whether to install the Workstation, Server or Cloud version. The latest version of fedup does away with the –product option.

A little over 4200 packages got upgraded on the computer, so the download and install took a while. I let the downloading run overnight, and rebooted to do the install while I was at work. When I came home, a new Fedora 22 login screen was waiting for me.

First thing I discovered upon logging in was that my old KDE 4 Plasma environment was no longer valid, so I had to start off completely fresh with KDE 5. 

The second thing that struck me was KDE 5’s appearance and icons are flat. Solid colours, kind of old school feeling not unlike the icons used in Google’s Material Design.

I also can’t add frequently used application icons to the KDE 5 panel. I don’t know yet if that’s just been done away with or if I have to add a new widget to the panel.

So far most of the changes I’ve noticed are cosmetic. I’ve been mostly just exploring the new KDE 5 desktop and getting things close to what I had before. Then I’ll be able to dive in a little deeper.

Getting my Epson V200 scanner to work with Fedora has, in my experience, been kind of hit and miss with each version. Managed to get it to work a few years ago with Fedora 8, and then it stopped working again for a while with subsequent upgrades.

With Fedora 18, I managed to get it to work again installing a couple of iscan-* packages, but with the upgrade to Fedora 19, only the iscan-firmware package was left, with no evidence of the other iscan package I thought I had installed.

A little bit of searching got me the packages I needed to install though.

• Install iscan-firmware and sane-backends from the Fedora repos
• Find the driver and software for your Epson unit at http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule. In my case I was looking for the Epson V200 Photo scanner software and downloaded these:
  • iscan-2.29.1-5.usb0.1.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm
  • iscan-data-1.23.0-1.noarch.rpm
  • iscan-plugin-gt-f670-2.1.2-1.x86_64.rpm
• Install in this order
  • iscan-data-1.23.0-1.noarch.rpm
  • iscan-2.29.1-5.usb0.1.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm
  • iscan-plugin-gt-f670-2.1.2-1.x86_64.rpm

The order of the last two packages (iscan and iscan-plugin-gt-f670) may not matter, but iscan-data needs to be installed before the other two. After that, I was able to scan again by running iscan at a terminal window.

There are a lot of suggestions for Fedora 16’s codename, but Beefy Miracle is perhaps the best (at least the most interesting) I’ve seen on the list.

The campaign for Beefy Miracle is in full swing.

I wonder what that will do for naming Fedora 17 and beyond…

Beefy Miracle is a <blank>, and so is <new name>

Inside the new computer is an nVidia GTX260 video card, which I think is pretty spiffy. It also means I should be able to activate all the cool Compiz eye candy.

While I was running the alpha and beta versions of Fedora 13, everything with the new computer (aside from a couple of minor USB related issues) was working quite nicely. Had the nVidia drivers installed and running. The Compiz eye candy was very pretty.

And then Fedora 13 was officially released. Updated everything, grabbed the ‘official’ nVidia drivers off rpmfusion, and then the pretty eye candy was gone!

Hmm, strange. Let’s try reinstalling the drivers. No joy. Let’s try reinstalling the Fedora. No joy.

Do all the usual troubleshooting. Why is there no GLX (explaining the lack of Compiz eye candy).

A couple of kernel updates later, and still no joy.

All I have to show are some strange things being logged to the Xorg log file and no pretty eye candy. Google is of no help either. Annoying, but there is still video, and if I XRender instead of OpenGL for compositing (in KDE), I can still get a few effects. It’s all very strange.

Continue reading “Fedora 13, nVidia, X and GLX oddity”

Wow, I’ve been messing with Fedora for 5 years now. Started off with Fedora Core, and soon Fedora 10 will be hitting the bitstreams.
My, how time flies.