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Here are some helpful Fedora Core 1 tips for trouble-shooting this distro bugs and quirks.

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This should help those looking for mp3 support in Fedora. That is unless you are using the latest XMMS. This is for the stock XMMS version ( 1.2.8 ) in Fedora.

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/xmms-mp3-1.2.8-0.lvn.2.1.i386.rpm

Here are instuctions on installing Nvidia drivers for those who might be having problems. I got these instructions from

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113254

read through the thread and look at mishmash's post.

"1. Modify the /etc/inittab file to force booting in console mode (i.e. text mode, not Xserver). You only have to change the line

id:5:initdefault:

to this

id:3:initdefault:

2. Restart the computer. It will boot in text mode.

3. Login as root.

4. Move to the directory where the NVIDIA .run file was downloaded.

5. Run the following command to set the CC variable and thus avoid the CC mismatch error.

export CC=gcc32

6. Install the NVIDIA driver by running the following command. It should install correctly.

sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

7. Move to the directory where the XF86Config file is located, i.e. the /etc/X11 directory.

8. Modify the XF86Config file by changing the line

Driver "nv"

for

Driver "nvidia"

in the "Device" section.

9. Modify the XF86Config file to remove or comment out (by adding the # at the beginning of each line) the lines

Load "GLcore" (did not found this line though...)
Load "dri"

in the "Module" section.

10. Make sure that the XF86Config file has the line

Load "glx"

in the "Module" section.

11. Modify the /etc/inittab file back to what it was, i.e. with the line

id:5:initdefault:

12. Reboot the computer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Everything should be OK after this. For newbies, just run the game TUX racer, itf the NVIDIA driver was installed correctly, the game should display "very" smoothly...

Regards,

mishmash"

Building your own RPM Nvidia drivers for those who like keeping their RPM database up to snuff.

If you want to build rpm's from srpm's for Nvidia's drivers then here is a link were you can download them from so you can install your own rpm's. I used the commands below to rebuild my own for future use just in case. Make sure you do the export bit or else you'll encounter problems.

'export CC=gcc32'
'rpmbuild --rebuild --rmspec --rmsource --target i686'

Remove the '' <- and if you want you can adjust the target platform to athlon, i586, etc to match your machine. Below is the link to the website I got my source rpm's from.

http://rebus.webz.cz


If you are having problem with your 3com nic then here is a link for that as well.

http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#3c905



Too fix the CD package manager to access the rpm's on your cd's well here is the link to get the lastest one which should be patched up and fixed

http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/redhat-config-packages


If you want or need NTFS support in Fedora and plan on sticking with the stock kernel then here is a link to the NTFS driver for Fedora Core 1 ( Yarrow ). Install this driver via the 'rpm -ivh name-of-the-rpm.rpm' command. To setup NTFS via your fstab file click on the second link and read the information provided. Make sure you create a directory in /mnt and that you also use the same name for that directory in your fstab file as well. Of course if you download and install a kernel from one the apt repositories mentioned below you should have support for NTFS via that kernel and you just need to reference the folder and setup your directory, I think.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html

Info on setting up your ntfs partition.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.10

Info on setting up permissions for your ntfs partition.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.9




Wow that's it I think ? I hope all of this helps some of you and I hope the Fedora team puts out a less buggy release next time ! I think it was really sloppy of them to not build the kerenel using gcc33 or at least they should of put up warnings for Nvidia users about the whole 'export CC=gcc32' bit to help us out on the front of their website. Don't get me wrong I like this distro and I am using it on a spare p2 400mhz pc with XFCE-4 as my primary GUI but they need to bug test this distro a little more before releasing new core's. This distro so far is faster then Mandrake 9.2 on the same machine though and Gnome is good but not as fast as XFCE-4.

P.S. You get apt-get and synaptic from here from this site. Apt-get/Synaptic along with YUM and Up2date really help out a lot in keeping this distro up to date.

http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/


 
A useful collection of tips - thanks.

Doesn't keep me from taking issue with some of your points at the end, though. Sorry...

I hope the Fedora team puts out a less buggy release next time ! I think it was really sloppy of them to not build the kerenel using gcc33
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I suppose that you understand the implications of using gcc 3.3 and know a way to solve potential problems that Red Hat's kernel engineers don't? C'mon, dude... Red Hat is one of the top organizations in the world in terms of kernel tech contributions. I trust that using 3.2 was not some kind of typo or adminstrative oversight.
or at least they should of put up warnings for Nvidia users about the whole 'export CC=gcc32' bit to help us out on the front of their website.
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Why? Nvidia will no doubt have precompiled Fedora Core RPM's out in the near future, and then it will be point-and-click easy. If you want to use a distro the week it comes out, you need to understand what you're doing. People are reluctant to buy MS stuff immediately after release - should Linux somehow be magically different?
Don't get me wrong I like this distro and I am using it on a spare p2 400mhz pc with XFCE-4 as my primary GUI but they need to bug test this distro a little more before releasing new core's.
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You haven't identified anything that's a bonafide bug, only things you don't understand or don't like. Not to say that there aren't any real bugs - I hit a nasty prelink one last week. But do understand the difference...
This distro so far is faster then Mandrake 9.2 on the same machine though and Gnome is good but not as fast as XFCE-4.
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Naturally. Pretty much the whole point of XFCE is to be lighter and faster than GNOME and KDE. No one can overturn those design principles through clever distro engineering.
 
I have no problem with them using gcc 3.22 at all. The fact is that they compiled the kernel with gcc 3.22 but then put out gcc 3.33 and made that the default system compiler. Sure they included gcc 3.22 in Fedora but they should of made it the default one since the kernel was compiled using gcc 3.22. They should of left gcc 3.33 as an option to use for advance users. This gave me a lot of problems with Nvidia's drivers and other packages that I tried to compile. Had I not been lucky enough to read MishMash's post at LinuxQuestion.org I would of given up on Fedora completely.


I am sure that for all the 1337 Linux h@xor's it's simple to chalk this up and move on but not for people who want to try Linux for the first time and who are complete noob's. Fedora is supposed to be RedHat's free distro aimed at the desktop. I know they have officially abandon the home desktop for greener pastures in the server rooms and corporate desktops but the Fedora team has not. So until the Fedora team officially renounces the home desktop as their goal I will be nit-picking issues like this with each of their releases in the future every single time.


P.S. The CD package manager was bugged ! It kept crashing everytime it asked for another CD when installing packages from the install CD's. This is why I posted a link to the newer 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 versions which fixed this problem.
 
P.S. The CD package manager was bugged ! It kept crashing everytime it asked for another CD when installing packages from the install CD's. This is why I posted a link to the newer 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 versions which fixed this problem.
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Yup I have this problem too!!! Way I got around it (I did a barebones install of fedora and then will add as my heart desires) was i popped in disc 1 and then it worked...but each time i had to switch discs it would crash....so then i would repop in disc 1 and make sure the disc that will be needed was insterted and mounted....was a bitch to do but i got a few things on there
 
I am sure that for all the 1337 Linux h@xor's it's simple to chalk this up and move on but not for people who want to try Linux for the first time and who are complete noob's. Fedora is supposed to be RedHat's free distro aimed at the desktop. I know they have officially abandon the home desktop for greener pastures in the server rooms and corporate desktops but the Fedora team has not. So until the Fedora team officially renounces the home desktop as their goal I will be nit-picking issues like this with each of their releases in the future every single time.
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Did you file a bug report? There's no good in nit-picking here unless you tell them what you think too.
 
If you knew your redhat history, you'd remember redhat 7.0, which shipped with Redhat's forked version of GCC (2.96). It couldn't compile the kernel then, and so they included GCC 2.95 for that purpose.

It worked for them once. Some people got mad, but probably not a lot, considering that they did it again.
 
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