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If you have an Nvidia graphics card, then one of the first things you'd probably do after installing Fedora is to disable nouveau driver and install the Nvidia proprietary driver. The easiest way to do this is using the packages from RPMFusion . But if you happen to be unlucky like me, you'd have KDE apps (and some others too) crashing all around the place with this proprietary Nvidia driver. Apparently, there's some compatibility problem between glibc and the Nvidia driver. Switching back to nouveau is the best way out. Here's how to uninstall the proprietary Nvidia driver from RPMFusion and get back to nouveau driver. Switch to a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3 and login as 'root' Switch to runlevel 3 (terminate X): init 3 Get a list of all nvidia packages installed: yum list installed "*nvidia*" Remove these packages. Use the following sample command: yum remove kmod-nvidia kmod-nvidia-PAE nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig xorg-x11-drv-n...

This happened last week - 16th Dec, 2011 at the Oberon Mall, Kochi. Over 150 dancers took to the floor - for a noble cause. With the Mullaperiyar issue going viral and threatening the livelihood, and more importantly the lives, of people, it's heartening to see such efforts. Kudos to the organisers! I'm supposed to travel to Kanyakumari district on official business tomorrow. Who knows what awaits me at the border! PS: The music and choreography reminds me of Step Up 3 . May be it was indeed inspired from the movie.

Fedora 16 was released almost a month back. This is the first Fedora release to have switched to the GRUB2 boot loader. I had some trouble installing Fedora 16 - the boot loader won't get installed on my MBR since there wasn't enough space to accommodate the boot image. The details of my struggles can probably be the subject of another post. Here, it must suffice to say that I had nuked my first partition, containing Windows 7, to make sufficient space (unallocated sectors) at the beginning of the HDD for grub2 boot image. After installing F16, I reinstalled Windows 7 on to the first partition on the HDD. Everything was fine, except, unsurprisingly, that it replaced grub2 boot loader with its own. Getting back grub2 to boot Fedora was a matter of doing this: Boot using Fedora 16 DVD Select 'Troubleshoot' and use the 'rescue mode' Let Anaconda autodetect existing Linux installations, and when prompted, select your F16 installation from among the multi...