landoncz
7th November 2006, 05:01 PM
This post is tells my recent experience with setting up FC6 on the Asus Z63A. If there are others with that laptop out there, this post might help you.
Install the OS via the CDs. Don't worry about the initial graphical logo being scrambled, or the anaconda pages only taking up the top left corner of the page. This happened with me, and there were no lasting effects (that is everything still installed fine).
I did not have to type in any special parameters to begin the install, I simply pressed enter. Anaconda ran fine, and I chose to install a new installation, and deleted my old FC5 partition manually.
I chose only office and productivity, as I would later download the software development packages I needed via yum to ensure I had the most up to date ones anyway.
Install completed fine. First I did a yum update as root to make sure all default packages were up to date.
Outstanding issues after the install are the wireless (Intel ipw2200) and the screen resolution. To fix these I did the following as root:
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
yum install ipw2200-firmware 855resolution --enablerepo=livna --enablerepo=freshrpms
Reboot, and whala, network and screen res were up and working automatically. There was no need to edit any xorg.conf files or network settings or anything. Note: you may want to start network manager to make it easier to connect to wireless networks. To do this go to System->Administration->Services and start both Network Manager services, make sure they are checked, and save your configuration (so it will be active next time you reboot). Also, in order to speed up boot times, you may want to disable both the onboard and wireless NICs. Network manager will automatically enable the wireless NIC once you have logged in anyways. To do this type: system-config-network as root. Edit each of your network devices and make sure they are not set to be activated on bootup and make sure that you allow other users to activate/deactivate these devices.
The desktop effects works out of the box and took almost no CPU time (unlike FC5). I strongly suggest installing and using beryl as you get to use themes and have a ton of more settings to play with. I don't think beryl has made it into a repo yet at the time of this writing, so you need to download and install the following RPMS (courtesy of Sarthan on this thread (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=135039)):
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-core-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-dbus-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-manager-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-plugins-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-settings-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/emerald-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/emerald-themes-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
Download all the rpms to a directory, su to root, cd to that directory and type rpm -i *.rpm. Once these have installed, go to System->Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions and click on the Startup Programs tab and add an entry with the command line beryl-start. Now, each time you login, beryl will start automatically.
Reply to this thread if you need any help with the Asus Z63A and I will try to share my knowledge as best I can!
Install the OS via the CDs. Don't worry about the initial graphical logo being scrambled, or the anaconda pages only taking up the top left corner of the page. This happened with me, and there were no lasting effects (that is everything still installed fine).
I did not have to type in any special parameters to begin the install, I simply pressed enter. Anaconda ran fine, and I chose to install a new installation, and deleted my old FC5 partition manually.
I chose only office and productivity, as I would later download the software development packages I needed via yum to ensure I had the most up to date ones anyway.
Install completed fine. First I did a yum update as root to make sure all default packages were up to date.
Outstanding issues after the install are the wireless (Intel ipw2200) and the screen resolution. To fix these I did the following as root:
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
yum install ipw2200-firmware 855resolution --enablerepo=livna --enablerepo=freshrpms
Reboot, and whala, network and screen res were up and working automatically. There was no need to edit any xorg.conf files or network settings or anything. Note: you may want to start network manager to make it easier to connect to wireless networks. To do this go to System->Administration->Services and start both Network Manager services, make sure they are checked, and save your configuration (so it will be active next time you reboot). Also, in order to speed up boot times, you may want to disable both the onboard and wireless NICs. Network manager will automatically enable the wireless NIC once you have logged in anyways. To do this type: system-config-network as root. Edit each of your network devices and make sure they are not set to be activated on bootup and make sure that you allow other users to activate/deactivate these devices.
The desktop effects works out of the box and took almost no CPU time (unlike FC5). I strongly suggest installing and using beryl as you get to use themes and have a ton of more settings to play with. I don't think beryl has made it into a repo yet at the time of this writing, so you need to download and install the following RPMS (courtesy of Sarthan on this thread (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=135039)):
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-core-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-dbus-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-manager-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-plugins-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/beryl-settings-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/emerald-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
http://users.skynet.be/sarthun/fedora/repo/i386/emerald-themes-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm
Download all the rpms to a directory, su to root, cd to that directory and type rpm -i *.rpm. Once these have installed, go to System->Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions and click on the Startup Programs tab and add an entry with the command line beryl-start. Now, each time you login, beryl will start automatically.
Reply to this thread if you need any help with the Asus Z63A and I will try to share my knowledge as best I can!
