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The following practice was done in Fedora 17 Linux on an AMD-64 arch. If you are playing around VirtualBox in Ubuntu, you may find it much e...

Having figured out how to successfully build the original source package of the Bluetooth modules downloaded online (see my older post on ho...

Prelude: If you do not encounter issues like one of the following, you are free to leave now so as to avoid a waster of time reading more b...

Starting from : http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/install_Linux.html

One more, maybe last in the nasty complaining list for building GTK+-2.22.1, prerequisite for GTK+, which might be complaining the lower...

It is often asked how overriding/overwriting differs from overloading and there are many posts online to answer related questions. Here I a...

Sometime there happens to be a need for retrieving what is the compilation information, compiler version, say, of the compiler that was prev...

When porting an openGL+freeGLUT program to a laptop running with an integrated on-board graphics card ( actually, a part of the chipset, th...

While obstructed by the tricky installation of GLUT-3.7 in Linux (Fedora 13/14 in this post's case), an easy expedient is to indirectly...

1. check if the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base exists, touch an empty one of this if not. 2. add following line to it : options snd-hd...