Technical Stuff

The default driver for the Radeon HD 4670 card in my laptop is the Xorg Radeon driver.   Radeon support is rather hit or miss thanks to ATI/AMD. I installed Fedora 17 x86_64, updated everything, installed wine (and all the associated i686 associated files.)  I then installed a Trial version of Codeweaver's crossover (crossover-11.2.1-1.i386.rpm).  After installing Steam in its own bottle (XP), and then downloading and running Borderlands 2 (actually you have to copy Borderlands2.exe over Launcher.exe to work around an annoying dotNet think) I would get weird error: Your video card does not support alpha blending with floating point render targets (D3DFMT_A16B16G16R16F), which is required to run this game. Exitting... which it turns out was due to the apparent patent restrictions on the algorithm and since Fedora is based in the US, the mesa libs are compiled without that. Still wanting to see if I could get this to work I googled around and discovered that I could just rebuild

My Fedora 17 x86_64 Firefox always defaulted to using the English (Zimbabwe) version no matter what I tried. I decided to go nuclear to fix this: cd /usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/dictionaries/ sudo  mkdir ../test sudo chmod 755 ../test sudo mv * ../test sudo mv ../test/en_US* . restart firefox. Update, newer instructions: cd /usr/lib64/xulrunner/dictionaries sudo rm -vf ./en_AG.aff ./en_AG.dic ./en_AU.aff ./en_AU.dic ./en_BS.aff ./en_BS.dic ./en_BW.aff ./en_BW.dic ./en_BZ.aff ./en_BZ.dic ./en_CA.aff ./en_CA.dic ./en_DK.aff ./en_DK.dic ./en_GB.aff ./en_GB.dic ./en_GH.aff ./en_GH.dic ./en_HK.aff ./en_HK.dic ./en_IE.aff ./en_IE.dic ./en_IN.aff ./en_IN.dic ./en_JM.aff ./en_JM.dic ./en_MW.aff ./en_MW.dic ./en_NA.aff ./en_NA.dic ./en_NG.aff ./en_NG.dic ./en_NZ.aff ./en_NZ.dic ./en_PH.aff ./en_PH.dic ./en_SG.aff ./en_SG.dic ./en_TT.aff ./en_TT.dic ./en_ZA.aff ./en_ZA.dic ./en-ZM.aff ./en-ZM.dic ./en_ZW.aff ./en_ZW.dic restart firefox