RH FC5

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:02 pm

After fresh installing Fedora core 5, i managed to figure out the instalation and addition of my PCMCIA wireless card. after a pot o coffe and some headbashing, but it was simple at the end

sooo now i'm here running Yum, the updater and dowwnloading the updates...

Now, what are the first recomended things to do after this?
What AV i need if any... lol AVG AVir personal anything?
and what do i use to run NWN under it?

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:05 pm

and MOST important!!!

how do i update my video drivers!!!!

nvidia Nforce4 420GO 32Mb for laptop

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:18 pm

i got this far with my video card

Post by **TGPO** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:19 pm

Anti-Virus for linux ... none, you dont need to worry about them anymore. I know of people who have activly tried to infect linux with those pesky windows virii, to the point where they actually helped the virus in its attempt. Never worked, very funny.

Nvidia Driver install:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia

A huge hint for any linux user, new or old, google is your best friend.

For installing NWN in linux, good news it runs native so no emulators or anything. However you will need to download some stuff to get it work and follow the instructions CAREFULLY. It blew up in my face the first time I tried.

http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

On a personal note, I see that you are running the Gnome Desktop Environment. There are other options, Gnome as far as I have found is THE most system resource hungry environment, followed closely by KDE. While there are too many different environments to list, the one I use when I want a small resource footprint is Fluxbox, its about half Gnomes footprint.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:15 am

I need to get into linux, I hate GUI's... I miss my DOS

Kyle Ironbane · Post by **Kyle Ironbane** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:54 pm

JesterOI wrote:I need to get into linux, I hate GUI's... I miss my DOS

You may not want to hear it, but my first suggestion would be to ditch Fedora and install Ubuntu.

Once you enable the additional repositories, you'll be able to install your Nvidia drivers as well as a kernel that is better suited to your hardware. I'm currently running under Ubuntu 6.06 (otherwise known as Dapper Drake). I've used quite a few different distos. Believe me, this one lives up to the hype.

Post by **TGPO** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:09 pm

Honestly its easier to get the nvidia drivers into FC5 than it is to do it in any debian based distro so far. Ubuntu Edgy holds some promise though, unfortunatly I had a bad download and made a coaster out of my last blank CD so I cant elaborate further on it. When I looked through the cd payload for it though I spotted the non-free nvidia drivers.

I'm with you in that Ubuntu is THE most noob friendly distro that I have run across, personally though I stick with Debian for my preferance. I do recommend Ubuntu to anyone who asks, and personally you have to pay me to work with FC or RH.

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:08 am

ive been trying to instal plugins in firefox... now for the noob Q... Where is the default location of the firefox folder... i cant find it and searches yield no resuts... plus i tryed accessing the root folder throug the file explorer, but it rsayd i have no access to it...

Post by **VagaStorm** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:20 am

Kromix wrote:ive been trying to instal plugins in firefox... now for the noob Q... Where is the default location of the firefox folder... i cant find it and searches yield no resuts... plus i tryed accessing the root folder throug the file explorer, but it rsayd i have no access to it...

Mine looked like /home/<username>/.mozilla for configuration

Post by **shield** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:08 am

Best thing todo to find out were packages are installed, it to use the packagment toolset. Now this probaly different with the different distros (for the record, i use SUSE).

So open a command prompt. Typing "which firefox" will show you were the excutable is located.

If you want to find out which software package it belongs to and the above test return something like "/usr/bin/firefox", the type "rpm -f /usr/bin/firefox". That will return a package name.

Now you can list all the files in that package with the command

rpm -ql <packageName>

Just replace <packageName> with the actual name return by rpm -f. This should give a good idea where it's all installed.

However when installing firefox plugins I usally install the in the .mozilla/firefox direcotry in my home directory.

You will have full access to everything in your home direcotry. I find that firefox installs plugins their automaticly.

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:12 pm

well i left my lappy at home... but trying to install macromedia. it told me to copy 2 files to the plugin folder on the firefox folder,

now i might be able to find it LOL but i spent like 3 hours yesterday browsing arround a nothing

lol i'll give it a swirl tonight

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:25 am

i got the Nvidia drivers running right... i hope...

and found out thatmacromedia is not really there for linux....

macro 7 instead of 9

Post by **shield** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:31 am

Might want to take a look at crossover office. http://www.codeweavers.com/

This allows the running of some windows applications under linux. I've used this when I need things like flash playback from within browsers. It's comerical , but is quite handy from time to time.

Kyle Ironbane · Post by **Kyle Ironbane** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:45 pm

TGPO wrote:Honestly its easier to get the nvidia drivers into FC5 than it is to do it in any debian based distro so far. Ubuntu Edgy holds some promise though, unfortunatly I had a bad download and made a coaster out of my last blank CD so I cant elaborate further on it. When I looked through the cd payload for it though I spotted the non-free nvidia drivers.

I'm with you in that Ubuntu is THE most noob friendly distro that I have run across, personally though I stick with Debian for my preferance. I do recommend Ubuntu to anyone who asks, and personally you have to pay me to work with FC or RH.

Installing nvidia drivers under Dapper was a piece of cake. No need to wait for Edgy. Actually, I may wait a long while even after Edgy is released to upgrade. Tried XGL under Dapper and it killed NWN performance. Unless there are massive performance improvements to it under Edgy, I'll stay with the stability of the Drake.

What I don't recall was whether the nvidia drivers were under the Universe or Multiverse repository. I've got pretty much all of them enabled.

Ubuntu restored my faith in Debian-based distros if not Debian itself. My one foray into Debian was a disaster. Mind you, my first distro was Slackware so I was certainly no noob.

I don't know what was worse, the pathetically organized documentation, the nonsensical install path to get a fully working desktop, or the smug superiority complex that seemed to emanate from the userbase.