well, still no luck getting Xine or even MPlayer running.
On my desktop the darn thing still doesnt mound my home folder from my samsung hard disk ( i cant understand why it wont load it from the fstab file ?? ) does anyone have such a configuration where they have their home folder mounted on a seperate partition or HD ?? if so, does it automount upon startup ??

the release notes say it uses gnome-mount instead of fstab now, within gnome of course... could that be relevant? no idea what gnome-mount actually does yet though. a generic hal client i guess

if it's just base boot up mounting... no reason to think that fstab isn't still just fine. i guess that's a seperate thread though.

First impressions...

I installed FC5 on my Toshiba laptop today. It immediately detected the Intel video card and glxinfo reported direct rendering (hardware 3D acceleration) was enabled. All other distros I've tried failed to get this right out of the box, though hardware 3D was easy to enabled manually during SuSE setup. Unfortunately my luck ended there, as it's also the first distro I've tried on this laptop that completely failed recognizing my Atheros chipset based WiFi card. A quick google located the three madwifi RPMs I needed and they installed flawlessly, however. Oh, and SELinux was easy to disable during setup which is nice for those of us who think it a kludge.

Just add the fresrpms and dries repo (and make sure don't use livna).

I use livna and freshrpms, as per instructions here:
http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc5-tips.php

Oh BTW, suspends to disk when I close the laptop lid perfectly. Toshiba's little blue button flashes orange and everything. Had problems in the past with SuSE 9.3 and Mandrake 9.2 on this laptop attempting same. Would always crash or lock up when resuming. So this is first time I've actually got that working on this laptop, under Linux anyway.

If it keeps running this smoothly will have to upgrade my FC4 desktop PC too.

About the Xine player, i got it installed and running fine on my desktop FC5. just removed livna repos and added freshrpms and atrpms and the player installed and ran as expected.

on a 2nd note i also got Toshiba laptops FC5 to detect my wireless card using madwifi and enjoy a stable wifi connection at my uni today evening. i still can get it recorganized through the network-sys-config but the instructions given on the madwifi page worked like a charm on FC5.

Now if i can only figure out how to install the nvidia drivers.............

Xine running perfectly here as well, and I didn't have to remove livna. All i did is:

# yum install xine

and install the essential-20050412 codecs as per instructions already posted.

In fact, only time I've ever had to disable livna is to instal mplayer:

# yum -y --disablerepo=livna install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in

again, in the instructions already posted.

It's even easier to temporarily disable if you install yumex, though somewhat slower, depending on how fast you type I suppose. LOL

# yum install yumex

and while you're at it, this comes in handy:

# yum install hwbrowser

I like FC5.

It installed correctly on my Dell box which previously couldn't support a graphical display properly with FC4 (before I gave up). Correction; FC5 worked on my second install attempt. The first time around I did a full install, but I didn't reformat any of the drives. firstboot never occured, and it was messy.

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It's interesting--seems like most people here like FC5, despite also having issues. Why? Is it Firefox, or is GNOME really that much better?

Or do we all like bubbles?

I as my name suggests am entirely new to Linux, my first experience of it came with redhat9 for two weeks, than a week or so ago I installed Fedora 5. It's a very easy install, very user friendly, and with the people on this board, you'll find answers quick enough if ever you'd have a question.

Good luck friend.

It's the bubbles..

Damn bubbles.

Maybe the powers that be at Fedora took notice of all the attention Ubuntu's look got in the reviews. Anyway, I like the new logo ..and the snazzy screensaver too.


However, a gripe: No more Right Click Open Terminal! Easily fixed by adding nautilus-open-terminal, however I sincerely hope this fix is on the list whenever http://www.fedorafaq.org gets updated for fc5

well, apart from the symbol and the cool blue "bubbly" login screen, i dint notice too much difference. i think the main thing i was happy about is that Fedora still supports Kudzu, the boot-up hardware verifier. My laptops DVD drive is broken and i had to install by plugging my HD into a friends laptop ( theres 5 yrs difference btw the 2 laptops ) and then install. i then simply dumped the HD back into my laptop and in 5 mins thanks to kudzu i was cruisin in FC5. this dint work for me in Suse 10.1 even which crashed during boot-up on my laptop after following the above proceedure.

I installed FC5 over FC4 as an upgrade. This is a great feature because you don't lose everything you've setup over the past months. However there are some significant disappointments for me. MY madwifi no longer works and it is nolonger simple to upgrade to it or ndiswrapper. More importantly, one of the GREATEST things I liked about FC4 was the simplicity of installation of other software i.e. just download with Firefox and use the install option. Now there simple and convenient process no longer works (for whatever reason).

I really settled with Fedora for a while but because I need wireless, I've gone over to Ubuntu that has my Atheros card recognition bundled with it. This is a move I reluctantly made; I'm suspicious of the "warm and friendly" statements from Ubuntu.

Change the FC5 depends on what you want. I miss the convenient download and install process of FC4, I miss the relatively straight forward wireless setup process of FC4.

My two cents,
John

I tried to install FC5 but it did not work. When I did the graphical install it would lock up when the install process started. Then I tried the text install and it did not seem to be installing grub. It said it was safe to reboot but Lame-dows would start. I have FC4 on now and I am happy with. I would like to know if anyone had a similar problem?

Hp pavilion XT983
1.3 amd
128md sis agp
32mb creative sound blaster pci
256 ddr ram
40g hard disk

Can't comment on wireless (seems others have problems too) but about the download and install--for me, it works. I noticed that if you don't do a full install with reformat then a lot of the features just don't appear right.

..And I doubt these problems are possible/easy to track for the guys at fedora. Maybe if their release schedule was delayed with respect to GNOME's... but then we'd have to wait longer

natewlew: Your hardware is old enough that it should "just work". I recommend trying the boot: options listed at the bottom of the page at www.fedorafaq.org FC4 instructions will be close enough for this case. BTW, it's the most helpful site for folks like us who use fedora but don't code fedora...