Fedora 16 Installation problem

[astrotop]

Hi,

I'm sorry; I went to sleep.

I checked and the forced fallback mode is off.
I have also other features. The resolution is a bit weird, characters are big. Multitouch pad does not work.

Do you think this could be a feature of Gnome only or will it be the same with KDE ???

Otman

[nonamedotc]

I am not sure if the problem will remain with KDE. But, my first guess would be that graphics driver is the problem since there also seems to be some resolution issues.

Since you have an Nvidia card, it is possible that there is(are) some conflict(s) between your specific card and nouveau driver. You could try nvidia driver - that might become an ordeal though! There is Leigh's Nvidia driver installation guide in the forum that you can use. May be someone else could offer a better workaround!

[astrotop]

I actually looked on the web a little bit more and I found someone who had exactly the same problem and apparently doing this should work.
I cannot do it right now because I do not have any internet connection on my new laptop.

su -
yum -y update kernel
yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms gcc gcc-c++

I'll tell you if it works out.

[Drakonas]

Originally Posted by astrotop

I actually looked on the web a little bit more and I found someone who had exactly the same problem and apparently doing this should work.
I cannot do it right now because I do not have any internet connection on my new laptop.

su -
yum -y update kernel
yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms gcc gcc-c++

I'll tell you if it works out.

I don't know about the specifics to Fedora with your Mac, but if you want rid of that Fallback mode, you're probably going to have to install the Nvidia drivers.

Those instructions actually almost set you up for installing the driver. After running those commands you just posted, if you want to install the driver, try running this:

su -
yum -y update kernel* selinux-policy*
reboot

After reboot, run these:

su -
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum -y install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

But if you don't want to go to that extreme, try what you posted first.

The bonus of running my recommended command is you might be able to get 3D acceleration working.

I've run Fedora on a Mac before, but I never tried installing the Nvidia drivers on it, so do research first if you're unsure you should try. I believe it would be fine, but I could be wrong.

[astrotop]

Hi Drakonas,

Thank you very much for your answer and your patience.
I'm actually not trying to install the drivers or Fedora on my mac. I'm trying to do it on my new laptop.
At the time, I did not have any internet access on my new laptop so I was using my old mac to do my general work.

But now, I gained network access on my new laptop and I tried what you did.

This is the result.

[root@OtmanLaptop ~]# rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XiGGFE: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 00a4d52b: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
rpmfusion-free-release >= 16 is needed by (installed) rpmfusion-nonfree-release-16-3.noarch
[root@OtmanLaptop ~]#


If I remember correctly, I already installed fusion (free and non free).
So, what should I do next ???

Thanks a lot.

Otman