Friday, February 27, 2015

How to install Intel graphics drivers for Fedora?

Intel recently anounced they are providing graphics driver installer for Open Source OS. It is happy that Fedora is included in the list. So now you can easily install drivers for your Intel hardwares.

Issue

How to instal Intel Graphics Driver?

Solution

Open terminal and give the following commands.

1. Going to home directory
cd ~
2. Create a directory to save Intel Graphics Driver for Linux

mkdir intel

3. Get inside intel directory

cd intel

4. Downloading Intel signatures for Fedora

wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg-2 ; \
sudo rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg-2
5. For 32 Bit

wget https://download.01.org/gfx/fedora/18/i686/intel-linux-graphics-installer-1.0-12.1.i686.rpm
sudo yum install intel-linux-graphics-installer-1.0-12.1.i686.rpm
6. For 62 Bit

wget https://download.01.org/gfx/fedora/18/x86_64/intel-linux-graphics-installer-1.0-12.1.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install intel-linux-graphics-installer-1.0-12.1.x86_64.rpm
7. Running and installing
sudo yum update
sudo intel-linux-graphics-installer

Download Link/Source - https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

Thursday, February 12, 2015

VLC player plays audio but no video Fedora

Issue:

When I open any movies/videos it shows error message

No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

And after closing this error message box it starts to play the audio without any video.

Note: Video is working in default player in Fedora 19.

Solution: 

If this is the case you are probably missing two package libvpx.x86_64 and libvpx.x86_64. Give the below command to install the packages.

# yum --enablerepo="*" install libvpx.x86_64 libvpx-utils.x86_64

Still not able to play/install

If you still not able to play videos or install VLC then refer below article.

VLC installation