Success Story

[zenarcher]

I just thought I would post a Fedora 7 success story. I'm not a pro with Fedora...I've used FC6 and just downloaded and burned a Fedora 7 DVD. I'm far more familiar with SUSE, really.

Anyway, I did a clean install with Fedora 7 and everything seemed to install and work flawlessly. I added Livna to YUM and installed the Nvidia driver, which also worked just as needed, and my 19 inch LCD wide screen monitor. I used Stanton Finley's FC5 "How To" to install Java and got the Adobe Flash rpm from the Adobe site. Also, worked just great. Multimedia seems to all be working, as usual, with Amarok and the KMPlayer I also downloaded and installed to go with MPlayer. Videos play great from CNN News, which I like having. My HP multi-function printer is working fine, along with the scanner applications. In other words, I've not found anything not functioning properly. Most of Stanton Finley's guide for FC5 worked fine with Fedora 7, as well. Only thing I've been unable to locate from there are the multimedia codecs I had previously.

So far, I've only been able to add Livna to YUM, so I'm not sure if any other repositories are yet available and am watching for those..such as SourceForge.

I just wanted to say that at least with my hardware configuration, everything just works with Fedora 7.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[glennzo]

Zenarcher, get those codecs here: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/

I'll add myself to the list of people calling Fedora 7 a success. Installed it on my laptop and it works very well. Only 'problem' is sound VOLUME, not sound itself, as mp3's appear to play in all media players. I just can't hear them. Wireless, the display, applications all seem to be just fine.

[zenarcher]

Thanks much for the codecs link. I should have also said added that all the updates worked fine, even with KYum. No dependency issues, even with a lot of extra applications I added to the install.

Sorry to hear about the sound problem there. I haven't tried installing Fedora 7 on my laptop, yet. I'm running SUSE 10.2 on my laptop and two other desktop systems at this time. I always hate making changes to my laptop....it's an HP with Broadcom 4306 wireless and it seems it always takes me a week or more to get wireless working when I change anything major on it. I never seem to get that right until I drive everyone crazy trying to help me with it. Hope you get the sound working there...probably nothing major and I've had a few updates with Fedora 7 already, so maybe something will be updated which will correct it.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[glennzo]

Just a sticking point. The sound in Vista is ok but nothing to write home about so it's not something that I'm going to lose sleep over.

[zenarcher]

I'm sure happy with my installation here. Beryl is working great, as well. No problems there, either.

Cheers,
zenarcher