Out of the box I see that Fedora needs a few programs and tweaks to work on my computer.
I have the following hardware
asus p4s533 mother board
Celeron 2.8Ghz processor
1GB SDRam
HP OfficeJet T45x1 Printer
HP P910 Monitor
CA surround sound
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To open console as root.....
in start menu find the program terminal
open it and type
su root
enter your password
---you are now logged in to terminal as root
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Sound Card
When I installed Fedora, I had no sound when I hit test. To fix this I had to move the output cable that goes to my speakers from the speaker output to the mic in jack. It worked fine after that.
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First thing I did once I got in was to change desktop to KDE instead of default Gnome for the following reasons
1) I like the ability to change permissions from the destop and have it filter down to subdirectories.
2) I like the ability to right-click and add CDrom devices to the desktop.
to do this, when Gnome opens, open the start menue (red hat in lower left corner) choose system settings ---> more settings------> desktop switcher.
it will boot into KDE if you log out and back in after choosing KDE.
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CDROM
Next I changed the fstab to optimize my CDrom's. Do this to keep your CD rom from locking closed.
In the fstab entry for each cdrom and dvdrom device, I removed the word "kudzu" and changed the word "owner" to "user".
Example:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
to do this open console as root
type vim /etc/fstab
when it opens you can move the cursor over the items you want to change and hit the insert key once to add to and twice to replace characters as you type. Hit escape when you finish typing. When you finish with changes, hit escape and type :wq! to save and exit. or q! to exit without saving
I then added the two CDROM devoces to my desktop
I right-clicked on the desktop and chose create new cdrom device from the menu.
I named it and chose the device from the drop down.
Now, when I want to eject a cd I simply right click on the icon, hit "unmount" then hit "eject"
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USER Permissions
The next step was to gime my default user more permissions for administrative purposes
In the start menue under
system settings ----> Users and groups
I double clicked on my name and then went to the group tab. I added my name to the sys group, root group and to the burning group.
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NVIDIA DRIVER
Install NVIDIA Driver for 3d support
Download I32A driver from Nvidia website
save in /home/yourname directory
open terminal
su root
password
vim /etc/inittab
-arrow down to line with init:5: and place cursor over the 5
-hit the insert key twice and type 3
-hit escape
-type :
-type wq!
-hit enter to save and exit
REBOOT NOW
--now when you reboot you will be in console mode only. This will allow you to install NVIDIA drivers
After reboot, login as root
type:
cd /home/yourname
sh ./NV* (this runs the NVIDIA setup program)
-when it completes, type the following:
now type:
vim /etc/X11/XF86Config
arrow down until you see Load "DRI"
put the cursor in from of the line and hit insert key once
type #
hit escape
arrow down until you see a line that says Driver "nv"
place the cursor over the nv and hit insert two times
type "nvidia" in quotations should look like Driver "nvidia" when you finish
hit escape
type :
Type wq!
next do the following:
vim /etc/inittab
-arrow down to line with init:3: and place cursor over the 3
-hit the insert key twice and type 5
-hit escape
-type :
-type wq!
-hit enter to save and exit
REBOOT NOW
--you will now reboot in graphical mode again
--look for the quick NVIDIA splash screen and you will know it was successful
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Printer Setup
Go to start bar and find printer settings under system settings
add your printer and follow the prompts.
Do not use the standard cups setup method (localhost:631) as it can conflict with the RH Print manager.
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Fedora UPDATES
The red ! in the bottom right side of your screen is an old Red Hat program that lets you know when you are not up to date. It doesn't work very well with Fedora but the red icon is useful to let you know there are updates available. To update use yum instead.
Open a terminal as root (you must use root or it won't work) and type the following:
updatedb
-after it completes type:
yum update (this takes a while as it finds the files on the update site and compares it to the ones on your computer
after it finishes you may choose specific programs to upgrade or upgrade the whole system. Upgrading the entire system takes a few hours so do this when you are done playing for the day. Type yum to see a list of commands.
typing:
yum upgrade (as root of course)
will upgrade all programs on your computer that were originally installed. No programs that you installed outside of the Fedora core 1 environment will update. If you want to update just a few programs, its easy to do as well.
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Programs not included in Fedora
DVD software
MP3 support
Good CD burner (it comes with XCD Roast but I prefer K3b)
To download and install these programs or any other programs you may want, I recommend using a program called apt-get
go to freshrpms.net and download the 2 files you need to run apt-get. They must be installed together for it to work. This must be done from the command line to work properly.
Here are the two files
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshr...0.1.fr.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshr...0.1.fr.i386.rpm
download both of these, put them in a directory like /home/yourname
afterwards go in to console and type
su (root password) * no ( ) just type your root password
cd /home/yourname
rpm -Uvh apt* *this will install both packages at the same time.
apt-get update *this sets up apt-get with the proper list of available software
now you can get a player for DVDs.
Mplayer and xine are good for this so just use apt-get to go get it for you and install it. To do that type:
apt-get install mplayer*
apt-get install xmms-mp3
apt-get install xine*
aptget will go get the file, install it and make it ready for use.
If you go to the Fedora menu
Mplayer should now be listed under Sound & Video as "movie Player" It will play divx, dvd, etc... you may need to change the dvd drive in it to the correct one on your system though in preferences.
Xine will be listed as xine in the menue
xmms will be listed as "audio player" just like it was when you installed Fedora but will now play MP3's as well. To play standard CD's you may need to change the preference in xmms. To do that open xmms
right click on it and choose options preferences
left click on cdaudio player and hit configure. change the play mode to digital instead of analog.
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K3B
I installed K3B using apt-get
To do this I needed to let apt-get know where to find k3b on the web. I went in to apt-get config file by typing: (as root of course)
vim /etc/apt/sources.list
arrow down to a blank spot in the fedora section. hit the insert key once and hit return to make a blank spot where the cursor is. I then pasted the following lines and saved it by typing :wq!
rpm
http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/1 i386 stable bleeding
rpm-src
http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/1 i386 stable bleeding
After I saved it, I typed:
apt-get update
apt-get install k3b
in the start menu I found k3b under sound and video.
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