Archive > Tag: Fedora 20

HowTo: How to use your jack audio card with pulseaudio in Fedora 20

I, honestly, don't know what's happening here. I dunno if you're delegating pulseaudio to jack or viseversa. Anyway, I use this method to enable my http://us.focusrite.com/usb-audio-interfaces/scarlett-18i20 in Fedora 20. I hope it helps out:

Procedure

#!/usr/bin/env bash
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -k …

HowTo: Create an interface configuration with nmcli on CentOS7 and Fedora

I ran through hell today!

I tried doing things the old way. You know; edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 in order to set it to a static IP. Well, bad idea.

I had all kinds of problems when the two interfaces where online (eth0 and eth1). For example:

  • eth0, even …

HowTo: Two different public IPs on a single server

Ok, today, I discovered I am still an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot.

Yep, I tried to add 2 public networks to one of my CloudSigma servers and one of them didn't work.

I thought everything was to blame but my configuration (as always). Well, I managed to discover …


HowTo: Wait for any process to finish on Bash

Well, here's a quick one.

Let's say you're creating a KVM/Qemu guest; using oz-install; and you're tired, 'cause it's 06:31 and you need some sleep.

You don't want to wait the 2k seconds it takes to do all the work so you want to setup a bash script …


HowTo: Build and Use Fedora 20 for/on Google Cloud

So, in my last post, I promised to post these instructions. As if I ever kept secrets from you!

Update: Please, visit my repo where you can find the updated code: https://github.com/renich/gce-images

So, here's the magic:

Initialize (last post)

This takes care of setup. Read and …


HowTo: Install Google Cloud SDK from the CLI on Fedora 20

Basically, this is a HowTo that prevents the usage of a browser in https://developers.google.com/cloud/sdk/ installation.

Why?

Easy. I wanted to build my own image; from scratch. I wanted https://fedoraproject.org/ 20 on that cloud. The problem is that I have the poorest Internet connection …


HowTo: Fedora 20 and the FOSS xorg-x11-drv-ati driver

I've been having this problem lately:

My Fedora 20 would freeze; after a while, while using the <em>xorg-x11-drv-ati</em> driver.

Another thing I noticed, was the fan of the card going up and up like crazy.

First thing I did, was install <em>lm_sensors</em>:

yum -y install lm_sensors …

HowTo: cgminer as systemd service

Ok, I have been setting up my http://cubieboard.org/ up with https://fedoraproject.org/ to be able to control my http://www.butterflylabs.com/ hardware.

Obviously, I had to compile cgminer, which is straightforward.

So, I want the CubieTruck to start https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer, automatically, as a …


HowTo: Viewing documentation on GNU & Linux

Ok, so, before I go to bed, I wanted to share a quick tip with you.

Sometimes, you wanna check a man page on the CLI. AFAIK, you have two alternatives:

# man
man rsync

# info
info rsync

These are, both, pretty convenient and useful. But, sometimes, you wanna check it …


HowTo: Adding your Fedora Client-side Certificate to Google Chrome

If you're gonna try this, you already know what the client-side cert is. To get it, just issue the following command:

# install fedora-packager
yum install fedora-packager

# get the certificates
fedora-packager-setup

Your certs are called .fedora.cert, .fedora-server-ca.cert and .fedora-upload-ca.cert.

Now, we need to convert the cert for our …