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Installation
From first install the machine recognized the vast majority of the hardware, we had to select generic LCD as the display in order to get a resonable range of resolutions. Currently working with a comfortable 1280 x 960, but it's possible to set this higher.
Setup yum according to instructions at fedorafaq, and carried out a full system update without problems (as of today 11th March 07)
Graphical installation worked like a dream, almost all items working by default once booted. We are using NVidea Graphics, not the standard card. Things that gave us grief / aren't working are listed below.
- Microphone
Not working, major pain for us this, as Skype can't be used. Installed FC5 version of skype and this appears to work, but of course no outgoing sound. Please contact us if you are able to provide any help on this front.
- Wireless Network NIC
dkms-2.0.16-1.noarch.rpm
dkms-ipw3945-1.2.0-1.noarch.rpm
ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.i386.rpm
ipw3945-firmware-1.13-1.noarch.rpm
Simply installed these, with rpm -Uvh resolving any dependancies. This provided the wireless card listing required within the graphical network setup and we were able to configure as normal from there - sweet.
Note there are many more complex methods of doing this around on other websites, I'd advise avoiding these and trying ours, contact us if it doesn't work for you and we'll help you if we can.
- Modem
1 comment:
im new to this, and i installed fedora on other systems already im not verse on the linux and its commands either, but i have a dell inspiron 1100 ran on fedora 6 but the x server keeps failin when ready to boot to the login screen the error said its my graphical interface, if i switch the hdd to my hp it boots fine. What can i do to get it runnin on the dell?
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