Category Archive: Computer Troubleshooting

Jun
10

Fedora 15 – HP DV6 Laptop Screen Brightness Workaround

Having started using Fedora and Gnome 3 I’ve encoutnered a number of issues with my HP DV6 Laptop.  One of the biggest issues was that the brightness controls built in to the OS didn’t actually change the brightness of the backlight, so it was stuck on the lowest setting. There are a lot of ideas …

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Jun
07

Multimedia on Fedora 15 – MP3, MP4 Support

Today I had a lot of trouble setting up support for MP3 playback on Fedora 15. I tried a lot of proposed solutions on the ‘net, without success until I stumbled upon this gem found by zbormanchino on fedoraforum.org – I’m reposting it here for the benefit of others. Using root, of course, I ran: …

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