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[m.oreilly]

greetings from Fedora Core 6!!! i had no intention of installing this distros' .iso i had burned last night...i just forgot to remove it from the drive afer an evening of beer, women and song. awaken by an early morning alarm clock, dazed, i hit the power button, and stumbled off to make coffee. upon my return, i find the fedora install screen is in progress "oh well, what the hey, let's do it!"

after fedora found my scsi raid volume, it gave the options for partitions, etc. a few "nexts" and i arrive at an attractive desktop, in full 1920x1200 res. it had a driver for the 7900gtx right off the bat!, audio drivers installed, along with network, without fanfair. this is also the first distro of linux that i ws able to set up my pop account without resorting to screaming and the nashing of teeth. i haven't tried playing any cds, etc. yet, so expect an update and (many?) questions soon

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[m.oreilly]

well, i have to say i am very impressed so far. drivers in the box, etc. very nice

[Nvyseal]

What else can you do with it?

Want to try running it as your sole OS for a month?

[m.oreilly]

that's what i was thinking...
just installed skype for linux. it went on so easily (i was expecting an hour of typing obscure strings of characters), i had to double check that it infact had been installed very different (this distro) from others i have tried.

[m.oreilly]

scaramonga, on Nov 1 2006, 12:35 PM, said:

You may want to look at THIS Mr 'M'

Its a review of Fedora 6 ....and the guy goes through setting things up

[ShadowFox]

heh I couldn't survive how ever I do like fedora for the trash bin and computer being listed on the desktop... wish my ubuntu would to that <.<

[chriso_86]

Very impressive MO!! I am glad it all worked out so well for you!! I also had a good experience with my FC6 once I got it up!! I have always liked fedora but this time they really did a nice job!!

[m.oreilly]

well, after scara gave me that link, i decided to try the "eye candy" settings...wouldn't work. i can't find a way to alter the xorg.conf file, least the “Device” and “Modules” options. any clues as to how to access these?

[brewin]

Very cool, MO! Did it install the proprietary Nvidia driver or just an open source one (nv)? You can check "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" to find out. It'll be in the Video Devices section. Just curious...

ShadowFox, on Nov 1 2006, 02:58 PM, said:

heh I couldn't survive how ever I do like fedora for the trash bin and computer being listed on the desktop... wish my ubuntu would to that <.<

Open the Configuration Editor, by running the program gconf-editor. Choose apps->nautilus->desktop. Tick the boxes next to computer_icon_visible, home_icon_visible, and trash_icon_visible.

I'm not in Ubuntu right now, but I think that'll work.

[brewin]

m.oreilly, on Nov 1 2006, 03:38 PM, said:

well, after scara gave me that link, i decided to try the "eye candy" settings...wouldn't work. i can't find a way to alter the xorg.conf file, least the “Device” and “Modules” options. any clues as to how to access these?

You need the proprietary Nvidia driver for the eye candy. Read here.

Try this after you get the driver installed. (Found at FedoraForum.org):

1. Install Nvidia driver

2. Get Xorg.conf ready:
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true

Add the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite"
EndSection

In the "Device" section, add:
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

In the "Module" section, add:
Load "extmod"

3. Logout, login again and type: desktop-effects

Enable the effects.

[m.oreilly]

got the driver. so i paste this into the terminal?

well, that doesn't make any sense to me B...there are a bunch of files, and it could be any one of them...i am unable to find anything that sounds like what you have listed

[ShadowFox]

thanks brewin I'll try it when I get home

[m.oreilly]

driver won't install. and no info on how to either...

so, does anybody know how to do it, or are these guesses? the instructions from nvidia make no sense what so ever, as their "installer" does not run, as they allude to...