Fedora8hp6515
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ATI Drivers
There are a lot of people having trouble installing Linux on those ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 or any other ATI card here is the solution, first go to ATI’s site and download the driver then all we have to do is istall it in text mode and just install the drivers, for that we will first need a copy of the drivers on HDD or flash drive, once you have booted just loging as rootand then just cd into that directory and type
sh ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run
where ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run is the name of the driver file with me, it will start the install procedure just follow that and after the install just configure with
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --resolution=0,1280x800
as my resolution was 1280×800, after this we just need to make wifi work so now moving to ndiswrapper
WiFi
you need to download the source code (the .tar.gz file) from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net well from any other computer if you have net access only by WiFi, after u have the tar.gz file copy it to any folder like your home folder ( /home/<username>/ ) now simply right click on it and select extract here, now you have a directory with all the files of source code but to compile the source you will need to install some more software from the DVD for this go to Add/Remove Software in the Applications menu, enter your root password when it will open it will give you error saying something like Repository could not be updated so go to repositories in that and let the tick be there only in front of Install Media remove that tick from every other option, here select Development then tick Development Tools (remove them after compiling if you wont use them), after that go to Search tab and select All packages, there search for ‘Kernel headers’ you will find a package with name of Kernel-headers - 2.6.23.1-42 select that, click apply it will ask you for the DVD insert it and packages will be installed, now you can happily compile your ndiswrapper source
For compiling open up a Terminal from Applications >> System Tools >> Terminal type ‘ su ‘ , enter your password now type
cd /home/<user name>/<name of ndiswrapper directory>/
now when in the ndiswraper directory type
make uninstall
to remove any previous non working installs of ndiswrapper, after that type
make
here you if you see a error then you probably dont have the correct/complete source or are missing a required package, if it proceeds without a error which it will then you just need to install ndiswrapper type
make install
your work is now over you just need to install the windows driver so after the install the thing that is left is the WiFi support so here it goes first disable the bcm43xx driver
rmmod bcm43xx
then install the windows drivers
ndiswrapper -i /the location of windows driver/bcmwl5.inf
now check if driver is there or not
ndiswrapper -l
you should get a output like
bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
then type
ndiswrapper -m
to write wlan0 to ndiswrapper, then you need to start ndiswrapper type
modprobe ndiswrapper
Now you just need to enable ndiswrapper to start on boot, for that add “ndiswrapper” in /etc/modules
nano /etc/modules
to exit press Ctrl + X and save changes to original file all done enjoy
Enabling Graphical boot
For this just login as root and the password that you gave during install ( which i wont prefer but is best for this time ) and type ‘' startx '‘ at the prompt after logging in then go to /etc/ in the file browser there right click on ‘ inittab ‘ file and select open with “Text Editor” in the file there will be some thing written as
id:3:initdefault:
change that to
id:5:initdefault:
and save the file, reboot and you will be greeted by a nice Fedora Infinity Screen enjoy!!!!
3D Effects -- Compiz Fusion
Please dont enable 3D effects from System>>Preferences>>Look and Feel>>Desktop Effects it is known to cause troubles like missing top minimze and close buttons, etc if you find such type of problem Dissable 3D effects from System>>Preferences>>Look and Feel>>Desktop Effects To run 3D effects always run Applications>>System Tools>>Compiz Fusion Icon, you will see the icon appear in Top Panel, right click on that icon and in Select Window Manager select Emerald if not already selected, now you are free to change the settings to your wish and enjoy the 3D effects
WiFi Selection
There are also Some things that are to be done like making that WiFi work on boot for this go to System>>Administration>>Services now enable services NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher save.
Adding Users
Goto System>>Administration>>Users and Groups click on Add User enter the required info and you are done.
--OS 12:02, 6 February 2008 (CST)
