Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 (edited) Compiz is now working, although I will be damned if I knew what the problem was, I haven;t really changed anything.......the joys :D How did you get it working? This is my first ati card in my laptop, and um I feel like a noob..... :o Uhm, not really sure, compiz is installed by default, my current xorg.conf is like this: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection Althoug, I had to add the modules, Extensions and DRI sections manually. It's quite a basic xorg.conf compared to my fc5 xorg.conf Edited October 27, 2006 by Reiver_Fluffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Uhm, not really sure, compiz is installed by default, my current xorg.conf is like this:... Your using the radeon driver to and not the fglrx so that doesn't work for me (x1400) :) But I'm using Xen anyways so no biggy, thanks anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 I am then showing 15 peers with 7 seeds with a swarm speed of 1Mps. ... if your downloading at 1mbs that is pretty high ;) Don't forget that a swarm speed of 1 Mbps doesn't mean a download rate of 1 Mbps! From what I understand, the swam speed is the total total data transfer rate between all members of a swarm, so is obviously much much higher than each individual sees. I guess it's just an impressive number to throw around. For instance, I'm currently downloading Ubuntu 6.10 CD, and it says the swarm speed is an impressive 2.4 Mbps! Alas my personal download rate is a slightly more modest 16 kbps :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Your using the radeon driver to and not the fglrx so that doesn't work for me (x1400) :) Yup, I only have a 9550 on my box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Just installed FC6, checking it out, but too sleepy to make any great sense out of it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Is there any way to enable those wobbly window effects in KDE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Fedora is still a semi-flop! In order to get my laptop working, I must hook up via ethernet to get ndiswrapper. But this time, the default kernel is i386, and yum wishes to use i686 rpm's, as well it should. And my box won't let got of the i386 kernel! What a joke!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 Fedora is still a semi-flop!In order to get my laptop working, I must hook up via ethernet to get ndiswrapper. But this time, the default kernel is i386, and yum wishes to use i686 rpm's, as well it should. And my box won't let got of the i386 kernel! What a joke!!! Yup, there was a kernel bug in the install were you could end up with i3/586 instead of 686. Easy fix. # rpm -e kernel && yum install kernel If the ndiswarppr might have already d/l the kernel. You can check here: /var/cache/yum/core/packages/ Then just run: # rpm -Uhv --replacepkgs --replacefiles kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 Fedora is still a semi-flop!In order to get my laptop working, I must hook up via ethernet to get ndiswrapper. But this time, the default kernel is i386, and yum wishes to use i686 rpm's, as well it should. And my box won't let got of the i386 kernel! What a joke!!! Quite harsh to be honest, as jlc said the kernel issue is unfortunately a known bug, and to be honest, you wouldn't be the first person to have ony sort of issues with wireless drivers with any distribution. Most distro's "do" require some work to get them up and running "as intended", why should Fedora be branded a flop for falling into that category. By that logic "all" distro's would be flops :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 My point is one of principle. (as usual) I maintain that I should be able to get my laptop running via wireless. All I need is ndiswrapper on the disk. Mandriva is one that does this. That's right, Mandriva allows me to configure my wireless without being on-line. I am being harsh. But, I find this rather fundamental. I do not think that Mandriva is the only distro that I can get working without a net connection. Now one could complain that any wireless device using ndiswrapper should be shunned. On principle I might agree. But I already own my laptop and do not have the funds to toss it and get another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 My point is one of principle. (as usual) I maintain that I should be able to get my laptop running via wireless. All I need is ndiswrapper on the disk. Mandriva is one that does this. That's right, Mandriva allows me to configure my wireless without being on-line. I am being harsh. But, I find this rather fundamental. I do not think that Mandriva is the only distro that I can get working without a net connection. Now one could complain that any wireless device using ndiswrapper should be shunned. On principle I might agree. But I already own my laptop and do not have the funds to toss it and get another. In the same token, Fedora's point is one of principle. If its closed, you wont find it in Fedora. Simple eh? If your principle and Fedora's principle don't meet, then you simply use another distro :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 My point is one of principle. (as usual) I maintain that I should be able to get my laptop running via wireless. All I need is ndiswrapper on the disk. Mandriva is one that does this. That's right, Mandriva allows me to configure my wireless without being on-line. I am being harsh. But, I find this rather fundamental. I do not think that Mandriva is the only distro that I can get working without a net connection. Now one could complain that any wireless device using ndiswrapper should be shunned. On principle I might agree. But I already own my laptop and do not have the funds to toss it and get another. I see your point, but in the same respect is the problem really with the distro and it's principle to support open technologies, or the hardware vendor for not supporting their hardware on an open platform? After all, IMHO, one of the biggest issues with linux is hardware support and vendors co-operating with the open source community, not which distro provider chooses to ship closed source software within it's official releases as a matter of principle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common # yum install yum-utils # yumdownloader kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686 # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs \ kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Thanks! The second method worked. I guess you already knew the first would not! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Thanks! The second method worked. I guess you already knew the first would not! ;) In theory it should, replace your current kernel on the fly method :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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