[Linux-users] Fedra 7 - uggh!

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/25/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I have a need to try out Fedora 7 (see comments in another
> post), so I put up Fedora7 from  a DVD in a magazine, and applied all
> the available updates (225+).
>
> Let's get the grumbling out of the way first.
>
> <rant>
> Fedora has been at this game at least / almost as long as Ubuntu. Why
> can't they produce a usable system out of the box? Even the likes of
> Slackware can do this.
> </rant>

Fedora has been around much longer than Ubuntu.  But who's counting?

>
> Problems.
>
> 1. I can't find any way to get my usb mouse to work. The Fedora
> installer doesn't even bother to setup a mouse definition in
> xorg.conf. I've tried the same combinations that work on other distros
> (Ubuntu, Slackware, PClinuxOS, Debian), but nothing works. Googling
> didn't turn up much other than laptop suspend/resume related problems.
> Anyone have a clue?

Recent/modern versions of Xorg no longer require an InputDevice
section in xorg.conf.  If your USB mouse isn't working, perhaps its a
hardware problem?  Does the mouse work in console mode via gpm ?

>
> Here's the mouse definition I'm running with on Ubuntu
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
>         #Option         "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>     Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
>     Driver         "mouse"
>     Option         "CorePointer"
>     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>         #Option         "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection

That doesn't look right at all, that isn't a valid protocol.  I"m
surprised that works in Ubuntu. Here's what works on my Fedora 7
boxen:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

>
> 2. What's a bullet-proof way to get my nVidia card working and keep it
> working?. Some recommend using packages from  the livna repository,
> but I can't find matching sets for all the pieces matching the Fedora
> 7 kernel.
>
> FWIW, my system has an nVidia MCP51 board with AMD CPU and C51G
> [GeForce 6100] (rev a2) video card, 1G memory.

I just install the official package, and everything just works.  Livna
produces some of the most craptastic RPMs I've ever seen.


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