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4. Configuring Services
You can easily select which services should run when you boot your system. To do so you can use Fedora's services configuration utility which can be found under System -> Administration -> Services.For a detailed description on all services and daemons read my Fedora Services Guide .
5. Installing video drivers
**Note: To install many of the following packages you must have the RPM Fusion Repository enabled as described here .* Installing nVidia driver
In order to have 3D support in Fedora 10 you must install the binary nvidia drivers. Just type:For GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 & 200 series cards
su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'
For GeForce FX cards
su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs'
For GeForce 4 and below
su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-libs'
Reboot and you should see the Nvidia logo in your screen.
* Installing ATi driver
In order the fglrx driver for the ATi cards you must downgrade a few packages to their Fedora 9 versions. That's what Leigh123 from fedoraforum.org says. I don't have an ATi card so I can't really tell. For anyone interested here are his instructions.1. Install driver
su -
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install akmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs.i386
Additional install instructions for 64 bit users only !
rm -f /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
ln -s /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
ldconfig
2. Install system-config-display
su -
yum install system-config-display
run system-config-display and change *nothing*, but press "ok" to create an xorg.conf.
3. Edit xorg.conf
su -
aticonfig --initial -f
su -
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then add these sections.
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
also add these options to the device section
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
4. Backup old initrd
su -
mv /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img.backup
mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` 5. Edit grub.conf
su
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
and add this "nopat" to the kernel arguments.
Optional (in case libdrm change breaks things due to relationship with KMS):
add "nomodeset" to end of kernel arguments
6. Reboot
due to the akmod, it is *absolutely necessary* to reboot after the install, otherwise the kernel module won't be compiled.
Reverse changes
In case you want to reverse the changes you 've made just type:
su -
rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-9.repo
rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora9.repo
sed -i -e 's|^exclude.*||' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora*
yum clean all
yum update libdrm
6. Installing Microsoft fonts
Fedora uses Liberation and DejaVu fonts which are installed by default and look pretty smooth and nice, plus they are open source.If you insist on using the Microsoft fonts you can download and install the msttcorefonts rpm like this.
wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora10/msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm
su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm'
I built it myself using the msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.spec from Fedora-devel mailing list which unlike msttcore-fonts-2.0-1.spec doesn't require installing the xfs server. Therefore is ideal for Fedora 8, 9 and 10. It includes Arial, Andale, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings fonts.
The procedure just in case you want to build it yourself is the following.
su -c 'yum install rpmdevtools rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir'
rpmdev-setuptree
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora10/msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.spec
rpmbuild -bb msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.spec
cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/
su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-2.noarch.rpm'
Now you can change your fonts through System -> Preferences Look and Feel -> Appearance -> Fonts
7. Configuring Nautilus
* Open each folder in the same window
Go to System -> Preferences -> Personal -> File Management and in the Behavior tab select the Always open in browser windows option.
Now you will use the File Browser to navigate through your folders.
* Open Terminal here
It's very useful to have an 'Open Terminal here' command to easily open a folder in terminal while you are browsing it in Nautilus. To do so type:su -c 'yum install nautilus-open-terminal'
log out and then log in, right click in a Nautilus window and you'll see the command 'Open In Terminal'.
* Enable Num Lock on GNOME startup
su -c 'yum install numlockx'su -c 'cp /etc/gdm/Init/Default /etc/gdm/Init/Default_backup'
su -c 'gedit /etc/gdm/Init/Default'
And add the following lines at the end of the file before the exit 0.
if [ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ]; then
/usr/bin/numlockx on
fi
Save and exit. Now restart X server and check if num lock light is on.
