Like all ATI and Fedora users probably already knows, currently AMD’s ATI Catalyst 10.2 proprietary Linux display drivers are not working on Fedora 12. That is why I decided to write this guide for those who are fighting with ATI drivers in Fedora.

As Fedora 12 release notes says: Improvements for graphics support – Introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Better support for systems with multiple monitors. So, fortunately, the development of Fedora 12 has already been taken into account, that ATI does not hardly any development to the Linux side drivers.

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Updated 26.2.2010, Read First

Currently, the latest version of the KDE desktop in Fedora is 4.3.5. I had some problems with its stability, so I decided to try out, how will work KDE 4.4.0 the latest stable version of KDE. At first I tried to install KDE 4.4 from Rawhide repository, but it failed to install from there. Here is instructions on how to install KDE 4.4 successfully using RPMFusion and KDE Packaging Project Repositories. It may be that RPMFusion repository is redundant, but KDE Packaging Project home page says: KDE-redhat packages depend on RPMFusion repository, so it’s reasonable also enable RPMFusion repository anyway.

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Currently, the Fedora 12 updates repository does not have Firefox web browser, version 3.6. Firefox 3.6 stable and 3.6.1 unstable versions is, however, possible to install Fedora using Yum. Firefox 3.6 stable installation should works also with older Fedora Linux versions, like 11, 10, 9, 8.

Install Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Stable Version on Fedora Linux Using Remi Repository

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I noticed that the Fedora Linux with KDE desktop, has reasonably poor support for laptop touchpad adjustment. For example, the KDE > System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse options will not be able to enable vertical scrolling and touchpad tapping. So I decided to write this short guide, howto enable Touchpad vertical scrolling and tapping from command line without any GUI.

Enable Laptop Touchpad Vertical Scrolling

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This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository.

Enable Google YUM repository

Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file:
32-bit

[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

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