Send Fedora Your Hardware Profile (Read the initial post first!)

[Cyberhawk]

Originally Posted by phm

Fedora 13 is out you now ...
Why don't use 13 instead of 12 ?

I see no point. 12 works perfectly fine and I'm not in the mood for a reinstall atm. I actually
have to get some work done with my system, ya know ; )

[aviborse]

HI,

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pu...2-9d6b250006e9 ,

F-13 is not recognising my CDROM , please help me out! can't do many things .......

Thanks in advance

[kurtdriver]

Welcome, I believe that you should start a new thread in the hardware forum.
You have searched each of the forum and the web for info, yes? I'd make that my first step.

[aviborse]

thanks, i have tried to find a solution but to no result. Hence starting a new forum

[phm]

Originally Posted by aviborse

HI,

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pu...2-9d6b250006e9 ,

F-13 is not recognising my CDROM , please help me out! can't do many things .......

Thanks in advance

Yes, I Agree ...
Start a new thread about your problem.
We will help you fix it.
Sheers,

---------- Post added at 08:26 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:24 PM CDT ----------

Originally Posted by aviborse

thanks, i have tried to find a solution but to no result. Hence starting a new forum

Where is the new forumthread then ?

[FransR]

This message has nothing to do with Fedora hardware. This might have been an error. Pls remove!!

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by FransR

This message has nothing to do with Fedora hardware. This might have been an error. Pls remove!!

It was a spammer , please use the report post feature in future as this will guarantee that the scumbag is banned.

[bigTDG]

Here is my profile for current desktop and would like some feedback since I would like to learn more about linux, specifically Fedora. Here is my smolt id: pub_ea6248a1-e67f-4269-9fd7-908511b48de3

[kurtdriver]

Hi and welcome. What sort of feedback are you looking for? On your hardware?

[bigTDG]

Well, it isn't so much the hardware as much as getting everything set up for the hardware. I am trying to get the lastest and greatest open source drivers for my computer, primarily my video card and scanner. My video card is is an Nvidia GTS 250 and the scanner is an Epson perfection V500 photo.

Any help would be appreciated. And, if you have anything helpful with my hardware profile will be good. Hopefully my profile help out with the advancement of the open source, let alone Fedora.

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 04:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:53 PM ----------

A correction to my last reply, my video card is an Nvidia GTX 460, and a 250.

[DBelton]

for your nvidia card, leigh123linux has put a lot of work into keeping up a nice guide on installing the drivers for it.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

your scanner is supported by Sane if you use the backend from avasys which is here:

http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do

[bigTDG]

Good news/Bad news on the install of the nvidia drivers. The good news is that is installed fine, and thanks for the threads. The bad news is that when I started my computer for the drivers to restart only one of my two monitors were enabled. Through the nvidia x server settings I tried to enable my other monitor and could not write to the x configuration file to reflect both my monitors being enabled because I didn't high privileges to me the change. So I tried to log in as the root user and kept on getting the authentication failure even when the password was correct. Please help here.

By the way, as soon as I can I will see about the scanner driver thread I will post as to how that went.

Thanks,

bigTDG

[DBelton]

how did you try to sign in as root? using su or sudo? if you use sudo, then you enter the user's password, not root's. If you use su., then enter root's password.

If you tried to log into gnome as root, then it's a little more complicated since the developers have decided in their infinite wisdom to not allow root logon. (this can be changed and there are a few threads on here that show how)

one way to do it would be to logon as your regular user. Then open a terminal window and sign into a root login shell:

su -
(root password)

nvidia-xconfig

This should open up your nvidia settings, but do so as the root user instead of a regular user.

[bigTDG]

I have tried what you said but this the only that I got from the terminal.
[bigT@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost bigT]# nvidi-XCONFIG
bash: nvidi-XCONFIG: command not found...
[root@localhost bigT]# nvidia-xconfig

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

[root@localhost bigT]#

[DBelton]

did you install the nvidia-settings package?

su -
(root password)
yum install nvidia-settings



nvidia-settings