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Fedora 10 Installation Guide

Written by axel

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24. Plymouth Graphical Boot

Plymouth is the new Graphical Boot of Fedora 10 which replaces the old RHGB. It requires kernel modesetting (KMS) support to work properly. KMS is currently supported on most ATI Radeon chips; anything from the Radeon 9500 and newer should work. Intel KMS support is in development, but is not yet supported. For all other graphics hardware, the text plugin is used. If you see only a scrolling bar when booting to Fedora you can try to force your Hardware into graphics mode without using KMS support. To do so reat below at the Graphical Boot Problem. However you could first try and change this theme to another one to see if it works without any changes to your grub.conf.

* Plymouth Themes

By default only the solar and text themes are installed. To add additional plymouth themes type:

su -
yum install plymouth-plugin-{fade-in,pulser,spinfinity} Now you can try any theme you want like this. Just replace pluginname with one of the following: solar, fade-in, pulser, spinfinity, text.

su -
plymouth-set-default-plugin pluginname
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd After that just reboot your computer.

* Graphical Boot Problem

While booting in Fedora 10 you might have seen a blue scrolling bar loading instead of the grub's graphical boot screen. This has happened because of the modesetting option of the kernel that Fedora 10 uses. In order to see the graphical boot you must edit grub.conf and add a vga resolution to it. Here it is how:

su -
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf Here you must add your framebuffer resolution at the end of the kernel line. Something like this:

title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=a61c8338-e373-4389-ae00-32942185f7c2 rhgb quiet vga=792
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img vga=792 stands for 1024x768 resolution with 24-bit colours. You can find the resolution you like from the table below.

Colours   640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+---------------------------------------------
256     |   769     771      773      775       796
32,768  |   784     787      790      793       797
65,536  |   785     788      791      794       798
16.8M   |   786     789      792      795       799

If the resolution you want isn't among those open a terminal and type vbetest as root. You will see a list like this:

[352] 1280x800 (256 color palette)
[353] 1280x800 (8:8:8)

Add 512 to the number you see inside brackets. For example if you have a 24bit widescreen with 1280x800 resolution add vga=865 (512+353).

25. xorg.conf is missing

Many Fedora users complain that xorg.conf is missing in Fedora 10 and cannot find it in its usual location /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make some changes on their own. Well this is not bug, this is a feature of Fedora 10. But here is how to create xorg.conf if you really need it. As root open a terminal and type:

Xorg -configure :1
This will create a default xorg.conf in /root/xorg.conf.new which you can copy to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

If you are using Radeon or Nvidia drivers from rpmfusion repository alternatively type:

su -
yum install system-config-display
system-config-display
This script will automatically create an xorg.conf in its correct location.

I hope this guide was useful for all Fedora users, old and new ones! If you think there is something that should be added on this guide just leave me a comment below! Please do not use the comment function to ask for help! If you need help, please use our forum .

26. Enable GUI root login

Fedora 10 by default doesn't allow someone to login as root through GDM. Instead you have to login as a normal user and become root through your terminal. However many users still want to login as root. Although I don't approve this here is how to do it. Don't forget that once you login as root its easier to damage your system so don't do the following unless you are sure what you are doing.

Open a terminal and type:

su -c 'gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm'Here find the following line

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quietand comment it like this

#auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

Save the file and logout. Now you can login as root.

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betsubetsu said:

	your preupgrade paragraph doesn't mention which version of preupgrade you used. As of today, Nov 26, the last official version of preupgrade for F9 is 0.9.3-3.fc9. Running preupgrade will not give you the possibility to choose F10. We have to wait till a new release of preupgrade is available.
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axel said:

	Yes, you are right betsubetsu. However preupgrade a little time ago was updated to version 1.x and Fedora 10 upgrade is available! So, there is no problem now!
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genex said:

	not sure about other people but firefox in F9 and F10 is defaulted to offline mode for me. solved this by: about :config in firefox and toolkit.networkmanager.disable browser.offline; false not sure if this problem is common enough to warrant including this in the guide
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November 27, 2008
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axel said:

	I searched google for the offline mode of Firefox and as far as I understood this is either a problem of Network Manager or a problem that occurred when upgrading Firefox from one version to another. Thanks for the heads up genex. I think I might add this somewhere in the guide.
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November 27, 2008
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sn.linux said:

	Thanks for this guide. Gracias!
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November 27, 2008
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Tomek said:

	Yes. Thank you very much for this nice guide
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November 27, 2008
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jjcf89 said:

	Azureus is another bittorent client. Tons of features and a bit bulky but I think its worth mentioning.
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November 28, 2008
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Streamreader said:

	Incredible guide! Thank you very much! I got my fglrx driver working too
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November 30, 2008
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Ray Ward said:

This is not really a request for help but an advisory for any one upgrading from F8 to F10.
I downloaded and attempted to use the install DVD to upgrade my F8 install. After a few complaints from the installer about my method of mounting partitions (I haven't been using disk labels just mount device) the updater went into upgrade without complaining. Ten minutes later wow that was fast please reboot. Ok so reboot where the hell did my home folder go. It seems there are still problems with the installed up grader. All the up grader does ruin your fstab file. As I'm waiting for the net install to complete (Yours as described here) I though Id just mention that problem.

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axel said:

	Hey Ray Ward. Thanks for the post. Well, it's not advised to update directly Fedora 8 to Fedora 10. It's best to go 8 -> 9 -> 10. I should have made this clear in the Upgrade part of the guide. When you finish with the install tell us how if everything is working fine.
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Ray Ward said:

Install completed although it did take rather a long time and so far I can report as successfull. Every thing seems to be working although I have not yet updated the Nvidia driver. I stopped Selinux as I found the constant messages about most things irritating. I havent finished browsing all your neat howto's yet but if the Selinux configuration is not there perhaps you will consider a Selinux repair/ base configure howto. I'm going to fix the "Graphical Boot Problem" now.

Regards
Ray

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Ray Ward said:

Things to look out for.
1) Nvidia drivers may not move from 8 to 10. It seems that the upgrade looks for packages in the 10 release to upgrade but if in doubt leaves the original or puts both packages in place. You may get OpenGL warnings and things like glxgears won't run, unable to switch on Beryl and games like Urban Terrror will refuse to run. I found quite a simple cure for this after googling around.
Yum list will probably show you still have F8 libs and drivers installed. Remove all the kmod packages for Nvidia and reinstall using yum install package where package is the latest Nvidia kmod package. This will install the correct drivers and libs. Make sure the xorg.conf file has Driver = "nvidia" and reboot.
2) You may find that there are a number of packages still on f8 that prevent updates. Uninstall them and reinstall from the f10 package list. I have to mention that Netpanzer 64bit is still not working correctly any body seen an F10 i386 version around?

I hope you find this of some use .

Regards
Ray

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December 02, 2008
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axel said:

	I am glad you figured everything out with your update! For Netpanzer, sorry I can't find any package for Fedora 10. Regards, axel
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M said:

	Thank you very much for the guide! I used to configure my F9 with your previous guide, and I'm glad you're continuing with advising Fedora Users ;-) Keep it up! Regards M PS. I recommend Deluge as a torrent client, it's great and user friendly and fast.
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axel said:

	Thank you jjcf89 and M. I have included Azureus and Deluge torrent clients in the guide.
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Alexey said:

	Hi Axel! Many thanks for this guide. A lot of problems gone in an hour Nevertheless, can you add an upgrade guide (after the downgrade guide), because now, it seems that Fedora team fixed problem with ati driver, but I don't know how to update libdrm and xorg packages to their previous state (e.g. state before downgrading). Thanks. Please, help!
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December 04, 2008
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asp1rin said:

	you missed "exaile" in music players and brasero in cd/dvd burners Cheers
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axel said:

	Hey Alexey, what is the fix that the Fedora team has come up to for the ATi driver? I can't find something. asp1rin I will add both programs. Thanks.
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praveen said:

	Thanks for putting together such a nice document together that works.
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Demian said:

Axel,

I'm back to Fedora after a long time using Ubuntu. Thank you for the awesome tutorial. I would like to suggest a few of additional topics you might want to cover, in case you find them helpful:

1) For laptops in general, a guide to enable the function keys (Fn) that control brightness, volume, etc. I, for one, have not figured how to get these to work in Fedora 10. Ubuntu 8.10 had them working out of the box.

2) For Thunderbird, integration with PGP using Gnu-PGP and Enigmail

3) Enabling PAE, for those with 4+ GB RAM

4) Setting up a latex environment using the TexLive packages

5) Setting up a development environment for Java: Eclipse and/or Netbeans and/or ...

Thanks for the great work!

Demian

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axel said:

	Hi Demian, I really liked your proposals! I will sure publish some guides for them. If you have any notes on those topics could you send me an e-mail with some info? I don't have 4+ GB RAM and I haven't used latex as well (although I should ) Regards, axel
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flpmorais said:

hi!
first of all, thanks for your excelent work! i used both this and fedora 9 guides to set up my system and almost everything went well smilies/cheesy.gif

anyaway, this time i had a problem.
i have an ati mobility x1400 card on a lg laptop wich worked good with f9, but with f10 after installing drivers, when I type glxgears or glxinfo or something similar, i get this error:

X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 14
Current serial number in output stream: 14

anyone had this problem or anyone knows what my problem is?

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December 27, 2008
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axel said:

	@ flpmorais, You downgraded libdrm right? Do you have a 32bit or 64bit installation? Take a look again at the ati installation part of the guide. Rebuild initrd as mentioned there and reboot. This might solve your problem. @ Alexey I have included instructions on how to undo all changes made while downgrading libdrm.
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biogrrl said:

	Great guide Axel...pretty complete and easy to read. I'm a big fan and thanks for helping me get Fedora 10 up and running flawlessly and quickly. Ubuntu has been back-seated cheers, Biogrrl
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December 31, 2008
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axel said:

	Heh, welcome to the Fedora community.
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konstantin said:

	Hi, I fixed the problem with Nvidia suspend You should check this: http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=56860
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axel said:

	Thanks for the link Konstantin! I don't have a laptop at this time to check, but suspend/resume should work out of the box at some time.
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Mike said:

	This really helped me get Sun Java going, Thanks....... The only thing I found is that with build 1.6.0_12-b04 the default directory for the firefox plugin is /usr/java not /opt. I am no expert and It could just be something with my system but if it is the default now I just wanted to let you know.
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axel said:

	Thanks for the info Mike. I will take a look and update the guide.
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mirceamic said:

In response to genex:
Firefox (and many other applications) use NetworkManager to get the state of the network connection. If you have a pppoe connection (like me) then NM doesn't know that you're online so it displays an offline message and the programs that rely on NM (including firefox) start in offline mode.
NM is good on laptops that use wireless networks.
My solution to this was to disable NM.

Thanks for the guide, it covers most of the things to be done when upgrading/installing FC10.

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axel said:

	Thanks for your comment mirceamic.
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EntityReborn said:

	I thought you may want to add this, especially for FC9/10 users who want FC8 GDM functionality again (themes, etc). leigh, Administrator of fedoraforum posted this: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=193067 I'm currently running through what he posted, get back to you in a while when its done for verification.
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EntityReborn said:

	Yeah, one small freeze when selecting System-Tools/New Login, but other than that, all good!
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axel said:

	Thanks for the info EntityReborn. A lot of people are asking about themes in GDM so I am gonna add it to this guide.
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EntityReborn said:

	No worries. One thing, there a downloadable version of this?
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axel said:

	A downloadable version of this guide you mean? Sorry, but no.
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Calvin said:

i am using a laptop with Fedora 10 install.... totally new to linux system, i tried to get my graphic resolution & wireless network to work properly. I am having an ATI mobility Radeon 9700 gfx chip on a Pentium M 725 chipset (802.11 b/g).

Not knowing where to start, i tried to install anything and everything using the guide from the "unofficial fedora FAQ" website -> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf

Not too concern about the wireless connection at the moment as the gfx resolution is getting me crazy. It keeps giving me the following:

=> No package kmod-fglrx available.
=> No package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs.i386 available.

even though i have followed the instructions to get the latest packages:

=> package livna-release-1:1-1.noarch is already installed
=> package rpmfusion-nonfree-release-11-1.noarch (which is newer than rpmfusion-nonfree-release-10-5.noarch) is already installed

and i got this when i tried to install : su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org...oarch.rpm'

=> rpmfusion-free-release >= 11 is needed by (installed) rpmfusion-nonfree-release-11-1.noarch

Thanks for taking time to help.

Calvin

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axel said:

	Hi Calvin. Try to uninstall the rpmfusion-nonfree package and then reinstall first the free and next the nonfree package. su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org...noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org...oarch.rpm'
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erick said:

	how I can change the background color?
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December 03, 2009
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Ben said:

	Thanks for posting the Plymouth info, very useful.
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December 05, 2009
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axel said:

	erick, I haven't tried it but here is a link on how to change plymouth boot splash image Ben, thanks.
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