Hardware Info
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
CPU: AMD 64 X2
Sony DVD RW DRU-530A
Firewire: TI TSB43AB22A 1394a
Ethernet
Fedora finds:
Marvel 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
nVidia CK804 Ethernet Controller
FC5 Runs on the latter
Asus MB manual says
Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet
nVidia nForce 4 Gigabit Ethernet
AC97 Audio: Realtek ALC850 Audio controller
Onboard SATA RAID
Harddrives: Several ATA & SATA
Graphics: nVidia Geforce 7900
Monitors: Dual a Sony & a Samsung
August 20, 2007
October 27, 2006
Downloaded all ISOs, compared hashes
Printed CDs and compared iso and printed disc hashes
Booted to CD & checked media for all discs
Hit Enter for standard graphical install
System locks up after starting graphical installation. All I get is a big X (worked fine in FC7)
Booted again and did linux text install
Ditto, same problem only this time blue screen, really, really blue
Installed Suse 10.1 with no problems :-)
November 5, 2006
Tried again, this time with noprobe option...
it worked but without hardware obviously
Went back to FC5 and did some searching. Found some problems with older fedora due to the onboard RAID
Booted to CD and tried with nodmraid option (this is still required in FC7)
IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!
Got to the network page, changed the dhcp for eth0 (Marvell) to static ip
Got to select packages screen and ended with a unhandled exception error when I tried to select Fedora Extras
Tried again & got the same problem even with dhcp
The hardware probe finds two NICs eth0 == Marvell, eth1=nvidia. FC5 uses eth1 so I tried again using eth1
Did not select Fedora Extras, got about 1/4 of the way through the install & ended with the same exception
November 18, 2006
Downloaded x86_64 ISOs, checked sha1 hashes
Printed CDs and checked md5 values
Booted to 1st disk, hit enter for graphical install and watched it die like before
used nodmraid option, got install going, then had file read exception
Started over and got the same problem. This time I hit retry lots of times and it eventually worked
Same file read problem happens every time I put in a new disc
Finally got everything installed
November 2006
Something cause problems with the xorg server. Every time I use anything multimedia the server dies. Sometimes it is able to restart & sometimes it just stays dead. My guess is gnash the freeware flash player.
I reinstalled the x86_64 version & everything works again
Solution: See Dual Monitors
Below (reinstall the nvidia.com driver)
There
is a kmod-nvidia package for FC7 on the livna repo that allows dual
monitors and solves the above problems. It also includes a
GUI to
configure the servers
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SATA Drive Problems
Neither of my sata drives mounts even after configuring fstab
The error message in the logs seems to indicate lvm problems
Searched the web and found similar issues.
Looked for a config file or other easy way to disable lvm could not find one
Went into rc.sysinit and commented out the lvm stuff in the following if statement
if [ -c /dev/mapper/control ]; then
On second install they work fine?
All this works fine in FC7. All drives are listed as sd (sda, sdb, etc) even ones that used to be hda, etc
Dual Monitors
Attached xorg.conf primarily from FC5 works fine after I remove module lines
The X display started dying again every time I play a multimedia file (12/13/06)
Found the
following in the /var/log/kdm.log file:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed
to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE)
NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE)
NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
(EE)
NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE)
NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
(EE) AIGLX: DRI
module not loaded
(EE) AIGLX: DRI module not loaded
Reinstalling the nvidia driver solved it. Must be a conflict with the nv driver & since dual monitors require the nvidia version...
Fuse
Been using some of these for awhile but, wow: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
Remember
to add your user to the fuse user group or you will get a fusermount
error
Misc Installed Programs
rar,
par2, eclipse, MyEclipseIDE, sshfs, ntfs-3g, encfs, tidy, gqview, xine,
kchmviewer. qparted, xmms, k3b, cxoffice, yakuake
Eclipse
The yum / rpm version of eclipse gives me troubles with MyEclipse so I went back to my old manual install version
Misc Problems
Solved
While trying to install either
helix, RealPlayer, or kompozer I continually get an error like:
error
while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5
I solved the
problem by doing: sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33
Apparently
there are several compat libs out there that solve distro problems
NumLock: you need to edit
/etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc and change the #Numlock=Off to Numlock=On
Cups
& Printers
The kde admin tool does not work to add printers, you get a variety of errors
Go to http://127.0.0.1:631 and use the cups web interface
December
2006
VMWARE
Installation on FC6 how to from: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=503951
1. Download and install the
VMWare Server package from VMWare.
Don't run the
configuration tool yet
2.
If you do not have the Development Tools installed do
yum
groupinstall "Development Tools"
3. Ditto for the kernel headers
yum
install kernel-devel
4.
Apply the latest VMWare patch (I get vmnet compile errors if I do not
do this)
wget http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update105.tar.gz
tar
xzf vmware-any-any-update105.tar.gz
cd vmware-any-any-update105
./runme.pl
My bet is that #4 above gets done again at every new kernel
#/etc/X11/xorg.conf for FC6 x86_64 Dual Monitors
# XFree86 4 configuration created by DrJohn
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multiple X Layout"
/ Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Sony SDM-HX73 (Digital)"
DisplaySize 340 270
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 28.0 - 65.0
VertRefresh 57.0 - 63.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Samsung 931B"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0291"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0291"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection