Glad to hear it! Maybe I should try the noacpi thing too.

The other config things are outlined in great detail here, but the basics are as follows:

Graphics: Enable the Livna repo in yum, install nvidia kmod and the junk that goes with it
Sound card: start>administration> soundcard detection, if that fails, try searching here for the CMI 8738 and see what you get
Wireless: Google around for ndiswrapper, there is a list out there with compatible cards, see if its on that list.

Scott

Defenetily you shoud try to acpi=off in GRUB. Thank you very much for your help and suggestions scm86. I'll post again if I came across with errors or problems.

Francisco

hi! glad to see things are working. you can also disable bluetooth if don't use this service. use the same process as before 'chkconfig bluetooth off'. You might want to check out the following link on services for fedora 6 and see what services are running in the background. speed things up a bit!

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-fc6.html

1. Boot up your computer
2. When the blue screen appears (grub), hit Enter
3. Press the 'a' button, then space bar. Now type 'single' and hit the enter button
4. bash# will appear. Now type:

chkconfig bluetooth off

acpi off

5 Crt + D will reboot your system.

Thanks for your help and suggestions johnnylinux. I don't use bluetooth either, so I will definitely disable it too.

Francisco

I have the same issue... Crazy thing though. acpi=off seems to conflict with my NIC card. After that is added eth0 fails on boot up. yumupdatesd will pass by though when added. I saw a thread which suggested having to update to fix the problem. Could not do it since when I get the GUI up the network goes too so I tried VMware with a custom setup using the physical drive and was able to get it up fine with networking and updated that way with yum and it worked. took forever. After reboot it would not even boot back up. would only get "GRUB GRUB GRUB" on screen. I am using the Vista Bootloader on MBR so all I did was delete the fedora entry and add it back again to get past that. Then at startup it is stopping at 'startd'. trying to do something with the hard drives I can tell and is losing the interupts now. (the yum update caused that). This is a real issue it seems all over the forums. I thought maybe it was because I did it while in VMware with hardware at the time of update being specific to whatever VMware virtually represents as being your hardware. I just reinstalled Fedora. but now at square one it seems with the issue at hand. If you add acpi=off no network, keep it on and hang on yum or the two daemons after. I figure I would type this out for info purposes because the acpi=off seems to be the problem for me when it is solving the problem for others. Any suggestions holla at me...



Asus P4S800-SIS 900 NIC + Sound (there is a linux driver for the NIC on the site.....could that work in fedora???), P4 HT 3.0eGhz 1MB, 1.4GB RAM, 320GB IDE, ATI Radeon X1600 512MB

Hello everybody,

I need help again. How do I install ndiswrapper? I Have a D-Link DWL-G120 USB wireless card, but I don't know how to install it on Fedora Core 6. Also where do I go to find YUM?? How do I install software from discs 3 trough 5? Please help.

Francisco

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=337158

How to get your network card running.

Apparently their are some problems, with the D-Link driver and FC6, and this driver is suggested as a possible workaround Conexant,04/06/2004, 1.00.15.0, how to find it though is a different matter.

I'm just pasting this in as I think it may be informative and interesting to some...plus a problem still exists....

There is poster in Fedora Forum talking how adding linux i686 is not installing the 686 kernel......

You know he is right to a certain extent. I noticed how when I booted the install with the linux i686 it still installed the 586 kernel. What I did try out was during the install process when you setup the partitions. AFter you setup the partitions there is a check box to be able to do more stuff (excuse my words here as when I checked my email and saw this I felt compelled to answer) there is an option to add kernel options. I put the i686 in there and it worked.

This is all good and I can tell my hardware was being rocognized better but I still could not get it to work right. It was always something. If I do one thing this service would hang the system. If I add acpi=off then the ethernet and sound would not work. yum-updatesd hangs and so I disable that and it hangs on something else, namely HAL Daemon and maybe Avahi and sendmail. Crazy.... I then just went and tried Fedora 7 and I get ata1.00:exception Emask errors when Hal D tries to start. The only way I was able to get into X then was to start in single user , start the network service, and StartX. I was in then only things like adding a Zip Drive would not automatically mount (which sounds correct since stating as singler user alot of services are not started). The only problem with that really that I saw which is still a problem to me.... So I even went a step further and while at the GUI, open a termial and start the services myself.... All I can say so far is that it hung when I started the irq...... service...

Right now I'm stepping off of Fedora a bit and moving to Debian. I am a Newbie and am trying to learn...so I'm on a mission to see and learn the other versions out there too.

.................................................................................................... ..Basically my system hangs when I install Fedora.... Any suggestion other than what is around would be helpful. I think it is the video card I have an ATI X1600 card. I can't even get the the Livna updates, yum keeps saying it can't read the repomd.xml file. I tried changing "vesa" in xorg.conf to radeon and it says it can't find the driver named that.... I'm out of ideas....tried everything that was suggested on serveral sites.