Hey everyone. I know there is stuff everywhere online about this but could I get some feedback on what you guys here think is the best distro for newbies? I have only had limited experience with madrake 9.0 and knoppix. Is the new Fedora core fairly straight forward an install for someone with WinXP experience or are there better ones?
Thanks for all the help and info.
Sanjuro.
One last thing. Can you install Fedora onto a WinXP machine for dual boot or Fedora first
I have a problem compiling pftpfxp-mew on Fedora core 3.
Fedora core 3 is an upgrade of my old system Fedora core 2, which I updated with yum using this guide. On Fedora core 2 I had no problem at all compiling pftpfxp-mew.
i have Fedora Core 3 and have som problems with the local disc... i cant rename files, change permissions, and im root. and how do i make shortcut and change permission with terminal?
to install the nvidia driver and get it working with the default kernels shipped with Fedora Core Release 3 do as follows (you may want to print this document or save it as a file to read while in Text mode):-
Step one: GET THE DRIVER
first of all get this nvidia driver (for i386, if you have amd or other architecture, go to www.nvidia.com and download the correct driver).
download it somewhere easy to remember like /home/anyweb
add the line 'modprobe nvidia
' so it now looks something like this
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
modprobe nvidia
save the file :wq
Step Eight: COPY FILE/CHANGE OWNERSHIP
now copy some files.. as root
Code:
cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
Step Nine REBOOT THE COMPUTER
this howto worked fine for me on a plain Fedora Core Release 3 install, with Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT (AGP) and the default kernel.
Quote:[anyweb@localhost ~]$ glxgears45844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9168.800 FPS
66613 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13322.600 FPS
56198 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11239.600 FPS
66199 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13239.800 FPS
68422 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13684.400 FPS
68244 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13648.800 FPS
68221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13644.200 FPS
66314 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13262.800 FPS
68218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13643.600 FPS
67884 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13576.800 FPS
65867 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13173.400 FPS
66753 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13350.600 FPS
68425 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13685.000 FPS
66579 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13315.800 FPS
66013 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13202.600 FPS
57304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11460.800 FPS
42549 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8509.800 FPS
51651 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10330.200 FPS
57783 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11556.600 FPS
67616 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13523.200 FPS
68449 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13689.800 FPS
65505 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13101.000 FPS
look at those numbers ^^ !!! :P
here is my working xorg.conf for you in case you are interested
