Due to popular demand, i.e. anyweb, I'm writing this guide to help those who are having issues installing Linux on any system with the nVidia GeForce 6150 chipset (North Bridge), and the nForce 420 MP (South Bridge) chipset, in my case, the Compaq Presario V6000 laptop. In my case here, I'm installing Fedora Core 6, which is why I've posted here.
For those of you, like me, who have tried many times in the past to install a Linux distro on such a system, will have come across an issue where-by the system locks up after booting up all the system's services. This is due to the Ethernet drivers. The actual chipset its self, nVidia reports, is not at fault, but instead the drivers are.
So, how do you get around this little announace? It's actually rather simple... remove any network cables you have plugged into any NICs in your system, then boot up. Basically, what's happening is the OS is trying to obtain an IP from any DHCP servers that pick up, i.e. your router, and this for some reason causes the system to lock up.
Once you've booted up and logged in, you'll need to obtain an IP - it's also now safe to plug in your network cable, which you should do now - bring up a terminal and 'su' you to root and type "/sbin/dhclient eth0", this will get you an IP from your DHCP server/router and you should be all up and running.
At this stage, I'd suggest running over to nVidia and downloading the graphic card drivers and other drivers for your system.
I hope this helps someone out there as I was pulling my hair out over this for days.
Randall has been bugging me about this for a while so here goes,
first of all, what is beryl ?
Quote:Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace. To learn more about Beryl and its features visit our Feature Spotlight.
link to more info > [/url][url=http://www.beryl-project.org/]http://www.beryl-project.org/
how do I enable beryl in FCR6 ?
as root do this
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install beryl
ok, it's installed, now how do i see beryl in action ?
click on Applications, System tools, Beryl Manager.
How do i know it's running ?
your dekstop will take on all sorts of new cool features (see screenshots)
hello - noob question here, i just started using fedora today and was trying to install a .jar program (its a programming software). I managed to get the installer to run after extracting, but where do i install the program? In windows its in 'C:\Program Files', but i dont know where within fedora. which folder are all the installed programs kept, and will it appear in the menu under programming, or do i have to manually add it to the list?
S'up everyone. I've been installing Slax & Slackware on Systems for 3 months now.
How I got into it is through this progarm of where we get old PC's fix 'em & give to out to people for free (Use too put windows on 'em, but had to switch because of legal reasons [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] .
Names Jordan btw. I didn't help build the Slackware we install (was out of the progarm doin other things that I wont get into) but I think its pretty good, they called it Crazed Weasel.
So as like the rest of you I'm still pretty new too this o_O
Oneday I plan on buildin my own linux box... wish me luck wiht that [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_ph34r.png[/img]
Posted by: Davifflaelan - 2007-03-06, 04:50 AM - Forum: LAMP
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Hello [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif[/img] well.. um :( ... Does anyone have a sept by sept noob guide for installing this evil program on slackware [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_mad.gif[/img] I am using KDE o_O
