Dell Inspiron 1420N: No Sound On Fedora 8

Posted by Pizon on April 15, 2008

Recently I decided to install Fedora 8 on my laptop. Originally the laptop came with Ubuntu but the hand holding that distro offers was starting to get in my way and it makes more sense for my job to have a Redhat-based distro on my laptop. The installation was quick and painless but the sound card did not work after applying updates. A lot of Googling turned up a lot of frustrated people. Apparently the Intel ICH8 chipset has some issues with the kernel drivers included with Fedora 8. I ended up having to break one of my cardinal rules of Linux to get sound working but the steps required to get the sound card working aren’t that involved.

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BASH Functions To Manipulate selinux Policy

Posted by Pizon on March 06, 2008

selinux is a great tool for keeping your server secure. The problem many people run into is properly configuring security policies to allow their services to run properly. Redhat-derived Linux distributions provide the audit2allow utility for easing the creation of selinux policy.

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