Fedora 8 Installation Guide - Page 3

3. Configuring Services

For a detailed description on all services and daemons read my Fedora 8 Services Guide .

4. Installing video drivers

**Note: To install video drivers you must first install the Livna Repository as stated above.

Installing nVidia driver

$ sudo yum install kmod-nvidia

Installing ati driver

Thanks to leigh123@linux from fedoraforums.org for the details on how to install the ati driver in Fedora 8!

First you must check here whether your card is supported under Linux. All video cards below 9250 are unsupported.

1. Install fglrx driver.

You must have the Livna repository enabled to install that driver.

$ su -
(Give your root password)
# yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit
# yum update kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit
# service fglrx restart
# fglrx-config-display enable
If you install a new kernel you will have to reboot for fglrx to work

If you are using F8 x86_64 and 8.40 you will need to apply a fix to the driver


$ su -
(Give your root password)
# cd /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/
# mv fglrx_drv.so fglrx_drv.so.orig
# cat fglrx_drv.so.orig | sed "s/\xe8\x61\x2c\xfe\xff/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" > fglrx_drv.so
# diff fglrx_drv.so fglrx_drv.so.orig
# aticonfig --initialThis command should report a change ( diff fglrx_drv.so fglrx_drv.so.orig )

2. Edit xorg.conf

$ su -
(Give your root password)
# gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then add these sections. ( for driver version8.42 or higher )

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection( for driver version 8.41 or lower require these options instead )

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Don't forget to save the changes

Finally, the following options are useful in the section "Device" :

Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "off"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"

After editing don't forget to restart X ( Ctrl + Alt + Backspace )

3. Check for direct rendering.

Type these commands in a terminal

$ fglrxinfoThe output should look something like this.

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6458 (8.36.5)
And this command.

$ glxinfoThe output should look something like this

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_ context,
GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6458 (8.36.5)
If you can't get direct rendering try adding this line to the "Device" section of xorg.conf

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

5. Installing Microsoft fonts

** Note: Fedora 8 uses deja-vu and liberation fonts. Give them a try!

Alternatively you can type:

$ wget http://www.my-guides.net/downloads/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install chkfontpath
$ sudo rpm -hiv msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo /etc/init.d/xfs reload

6. Configuring Firefox

KDE Default browser

Acrobat Plugin

Flash Plugin

By default this repository will be enabled. I prefer to disable it and enable it manually each time I want to look if there is an update for Flash Plugin. To odo so type:

$ sudo yum update flash-plugin
and change enabled=1 to enabled=0. Now whenever you want to look for an update you can type:

$ sudo yum --enablerepo=adobe-linux-i386 install flash-plugin
or update by typing:

• $ sudo yum --enablerepo=adobe-linux-i386 update flash-plugin

• Open Source Gnash Plugin

Fedora 8 comes with an open source flash plugin. To install it type:

$ sudo yum install gnash gnash-pluginGnash for some reason installs its plugin into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when it needs to be in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins.

So to fix this type:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnashplugin.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/pluginslibgnashplugin.soBe careful to replace the correct Firefox version in the above command.

**Note: Thanks to nomb for that info!

Mplayer Plugin

The mplayer plugin allows you to view video files through Firefox. To install it type:

$ sudo yum install mplayerplug-in

java Plugin

mms streaming play

In the address bar type:

about:config
Right click somewhere and select NEW and then STRING. Type this in the box:

network.protocol-handler.app.mms
Click ok and in the box type the program you want to open the streaming media with, such as /usr/bin/mplayer.

Next right click again and select NEW and then BOOLEAN. Type this in the box:

network.protocol-handler.external.mms
Click ok and then type:

true

Set backspace button

about:config
and in Filter box type:

browser.backspace_action
Right click on it, select Modify and change its value from 1 to 0. Restart Firefox and the backspace will be set.

7. MP3 and Audio players

Rhythmbox/Gstreamer

Gnome users should have them already installed. If you don't have it, to install it type:

$ sudo yum install gstreamer rhythmbox
To add mp3 and other audio support type:

$ sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Amarok

$ sudo yum install amarok
Adding mp3 support:

$ sudo yum install amarok-extras-nonfree

Audacious

Audacious is another audio player similar to old winamp 2.x. To install it type:

$ sudo yum install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
If you want to use your winamp 2.x skin with audacious simply copy winamp's *.wsz skin to /usr/share/audacious/Skins/

If your tags are in a different encoding than utf8 you can force audacious to use it:

Preferences -> Playlist -> Metadata -> Fallback character encoding -> iso8859-7

If you want to add in queue mp3s when double clicked edit this file:

$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/fedora-audacious.desktop
And change Exec=audacious to Exec=audacious -e

XMMS

This audio player is no longer used, you could try audacious instead, but if you still want it type:

$ sudo yum install xmms xmms-libs xmms-mp3

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