Bruno Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hi EricIs that Fedora 6 you are trying to install ?? Because if it is: remember it is only a first Beta so it will be buggy !Actually the same goes for Etch, also that one is still in heavy development . . . My advise would be: stick to the "stable" versions for the time being . . . it is safer Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Golden Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 (edited) Hi EricIs that Fedora 6 you are trying to install ?? Because if it is: remember it is only a first Beta so it will be buggy !Actually the same goes for Etch, also that one is still in heavy development . . . My advise would be: stick to the "stable" versions for the time being . . . it is safer BrunoAt least be aware of that Eric. Your computer will thank you. I get this mental image of your machine cowering in a corner. Edited September 18, 2006 by Frank Golden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I get this mental image of your machine cowering in a corner. You too, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hi EricIs that Fedora 6 you are trying to install ?? Because if it is: remember it is only a first Beta so it will be buggy !Actually the same goes for Etch, also that one is still in heavy development . . . My advise would be: stick to the "stable" versions for the time being . . . it is safer ;) BrunoHi Bruno, As of 14 September, Fedora Core 6 is in "continual freeze"... only critical bugs fixed. This is according to their website. But anyway, no... it's Fedora Core 5 that I'm using on this system. There may be something about this new hardware configuration that it doesn't like. I'm playing around with Etch because it's soooo much nicer than Sarge. It's very similar to Ubuntu. I'm not using any of these as my primary Linux OS (that's currently Ubuntu), so them being buggy isn't a critical problem. Actually, Etch is the only "test" release I have on my system right now. The Fedora, OpenSuSE, and Slack are all "release" versions.At least be aware of that Eric. Your computer will thank you. I get this mental image of your machine cowering in a corner. :hysterical:Maybe if this system chats with the old one and finds out what happened to it, this one will BEHAVE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloppyslacker Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Maybe if this system chats with the old one and finds out what happened to it, this one will BEHAVE! mad.gifThe old one can talk? I thought it was in a coma, at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 The old one can talk? I thought it was in a coma, at best. Nah... its memory is not what it used to be. I think it may have a touch of amnesia. However, it does work. One of these days, I'll set it up as a back-up system, so I'll always have something to access the Internet with in case this new system develops any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hi Eric . . . if it is only Fedora 5 that is giving you headaches . . . . don't worry . . . Fedora is known to give troubles. My test-system did not like Fedora 1 and 3 . . but 2 and 5 ran great . . . . for F4 it was thumbs up and thumbs down. For some people it was the other way around and F1 & 3 were the best.Back in the days when it was RedHat I never had problems running it on the same hardware. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hi Eric . . . if it is only Fedora 5 that is giving you headaches . . . . don't worry . . . Fedora is known to give troubles. My test-system did not like Fedora 1 and 3 . . but 2 and 5 ran great . . . . for F4 it was thumbs up and thumbs down. For some people it was the other way around and F1 & 3 were the best.Back in the days when it was RedHat I never had problems running it on the same hardware. BrunoI'll play around with X and see if I can get the mouse to come up. It's not a priority. I'll probably be spending more time in Debian and Slack, anyway. I have Etch on the system now. The install went well this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 I have Etch on the system now. The install went well this time. Great news Eric !! . . . . :thumbsup:And about Fedora: there is another thread running at the same time by "Steel" . . he has serious problems installing it as well . . . he is an experienced Linux user ( our Debian guru ) and is ready to give up on Fedora . . . . . click Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 About Fedora, Bruno...I found out something odd. I actually do have a mouse, but it's invisible. I killed X and reconfigured xorg.conf using Vim from the Command line while logged in as Root. After doing this, I started X from the Command line and the mouse was now visible. However, I was logged in as Root still. When I logged out and back in under my user account, the mouse was invisible again. Strange, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 OK, I'm in Fedora and my mouse is now visible. YAY! :)If anyone else experiences this problem, here's how I fixed it...Add this option to the video card section of xorg.conf: Option "HWcursor" "false" Reboot.This fixed it right up for me. It seems that FC5 is having some problems autodetecting certain types of mice in conjunction with newer Nvidia video hardware.Toodles... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Nice find Eric . . . . . Brilliant !! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Well, I can't take credit. I'm just good at searching forums. I found that fix on Fedora's forums. ;)I'm in SuSE right now... setting everything up. All's going OK. Last but not least, I'll be playing around in Slack tomorrow. It will take me a bit longer in Slack to get things the way I want them because I'm using KDE in there. That's something completely new for me. I've gotten pretty comfortable with Gnome, but that's not going to help me too much with KDE. I'm sure it's not that complicated, though.I'm off to bed now...Goodnight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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