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Two weeks backs I installed Fedora 11 on my Compaq Laptop. I last installed Fedora 8 in May last year when I bought my laptop and ever since I was using it. In the past one year F9 and F10 also came but I was too lazy to install them. Anyways I finally managed to installed F11 and I m glad I did.

Good things
1. My Wifi card was detected automatically. In F8 I had to install madwifi to use wifi on my laptop
2. It boots in seconds!! believe me you will get the login screen in just 20 sec
3. It looks good. I am a KDE fan and I am happy to see major change in KDE after a long time.
4. Laptop keys for sound control works in KDE
5. Package Manager works well.

Bad things
1. Laptop Keys for brightness control does not work in KDE, it works on GNOME though. I am still finding a way to enable those keys. I found an alternative to directly reduce the LCD brightness. Just issue this command as root

2. There is no progress bar in the package Manager.

I attended OSScamp today at IIT Delhi, reached late there at around 11:30 AM, during that time Kinshuk was explaining about Open Source and Un-conferences. After that all the participants gave a "One minute Fame" speeches. The first talk was given by Shanlalit on "Rapid Web Development Tools", he talked about couple of open source frameworks available for CSS, Javascript, and server side programming like CakePHP, Ruby on Rails and Jquery. Which one we use and why? and how they will help you in your day to day work life. It was a but long but interesting talk.

I left after attending this talk :( but I am looking forward to Day 2 of the camp.

Finally after almost an year of registering linuxindya.com domain name, I have launched this website.

Site Motto

• To promote Linux in India. Especially in Schools and Homes
• Generate awareness among people to use linux
• Showcase the excellent Linux softwares which can replace windows counterparts
• Reviews on Linux distros and application
• Site is targeted for Non-Geeks user, People who can't afford windows or use pirated version of windows

Welcome to my site or weblog or whatever you want to call it. I don't know why I created this site. I guess I like flaunting. I made this site hoping to write blogs and update it regularly. I don't get much time to write blog rather I would say that I am too lazy person. I do write about Open Source technologies and other things. Hope you find something useful on my site. Even if you don't just drop me a line. I would love to know more about you.

You can check the photos that I clicked randomly here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravisagar

I am also an Admin for Linux Indya, site to promote Linux and a community site for Guru Gobind Indraprastha University.

I am using Linux for so many years now but I also keep windows installed on my PC. I need windows just for one damn single thing, 5.1 sound! I was never able to enable 5.1 on fedora. I have been searching on internet, sending mails to mail groups and asking every other Linux geek but none helped. I guess today is my lucky day :)

I came across this page on the internet ALSA Multi-channel Audio mini-HOWTO by Uday Bondhugula. I followed the instruction given by him on this page. After following each and every step carefully I was able to get all my 5 speakers and Sub-woofer working!! But when I ran speaker-test -c 6 -D surround51 command I realized that my center and LFE speakers are actually swapped :( then I quickly mailed Uday asking for help and not hoping for his reply. To my surprise he replied soon (God bless you Uday) and asked me to run cat /proc/asound/card0/id command. He then asked me to make the changes in my /etc/alsa/cards/ATIIXP.conf file. Actually earlier I was struggling with /etc/alsa/cards/ICH4.conf file.

Now everything is great. I can hear sound from all my speakers on fedora 7. I am using MSI RS480-IL motherboard. Which has an on-board sound card.

If you find any difficulty enabling 5.1 on your Linux then let me know. May be I can help you :p

Happy Dolby!!