Help for first time Fedora user...

[joutlan]

Hi...this is my first post here, Wazoot! There goes my credibility...

I have a couple of questions:

1. Where the heck is Compiz-Fusion? It says it's installed, but I can't find the control panel? I won't let me enable desktop effects in that dialog either.

2. Do I not have something set right? Driver? My card is an Nvidia 8600gt 256 gddr3. How can check what driver is running? In Mint, I looked in restricted driver manager.

3. Can I download Virtualbox through the Package Manager? Can't find it. Do I need to update my repos, if so how? I really need to get my XP VM running.

thanks much! btw, I'm running Fedora 8 i686 version with Gnome.

[leadgolem]

In order to run desktop effect software you need direct rendering.

glxinfo | grep "direct rendering:"

The nvidia linux driver is not in the standard repositories, you can install it from the livna repo after you have that.

su
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia

You will need to restart after installing the nvidia driver.

EDIT: This is for virtualbox.
You cannot use package manager to download it, but you can use yum to install it and solve the deps.

For 32bit systems.

wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora8-1.i586.rpm
yum localinstall VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora8-1.i586.rpm

For x86_64 systems.

wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora8-1.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora8-1.x86_64.rpm

All of the above assumes you are using fedora 8.

[Dies]

1.- http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ghlight=compiz

2 & 3.- Open terminal

su -
rpm -ivh http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora8-1.i586.rpm
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia -y
shutdown -r now

Have fun.

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Edit - Damn you're fast leadgolem, but for some reason my way looks way easier.

[leadgolem]

It does look easier doesn't it?

I for one would be wondering if something was wrong using "rpm -ivh" on a 17mb rpm though. Also, doesn't virtual box have deps?

[Dies]

Originally Posted by leadgolem

It does look easier doesn't it?

I for one would be wondering if something was wrong using "rpm -ivh" on a 17mb rpm though. Also, doesn't virtual box have deps?

I'm on a fast connection, so I don't have to stare at the retrieving message very long.

As far as deps, I don't think so, but would it matter?
I thought rpm would still try to resolve, no?

[joutlan]

Wow...great....thanks for the QUICK replies. Great forum. Great distro too....best IMO.

I'll report back with any problems. Thanks again for getting me going here...

[leadgolem]

rpm will try to resolve the deps, but if you don't have them the install will just fail. rpm will not go looking in your repos for the deps.

Have fun theZoid, oh, there is a community made compiz-fusion yum repo that you may want to look at.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=159056

[Dies]

Originally Posted by leadgolem

rpm will try to resolve the deps, but if you don't have them the install will just fail. rpm will not go looking in your repos for the deps.

Oh yeah, you're right.

Good thing there's no deps for VB then.

[leadgolem]

It doesn't? Oh, cool.

[glennzo]

Wow! Been following this thread and decided to give this VirtualBox thing a try. Works great! This is awesome! Only stumbling block for me was no kernel source first time around. Installed that, deleted VirtualBox and re-installed it. Perfect. I'm typing this reply using XP in VirtualBox running under Fedora 8. Slick!

Edit: And wireless works! No configuration, it just works. Holy crap!

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Wow! Been following this thread and decided to give this VirtualBox thing a try. Works great! This is awesome! Only stumbling block for me was no kernel source first time around. Installed that, deleted VirtualBox and re-installed it. Perfect. I'm typing this reply using XP in VirtualBox running under Fedora 8. Slick!

Edit: And wireless works! No configuration, it just works. Holy crap!

Yeah, I am impressed also. I have just started using it, even made a custom icon for my launcher. I still stay with VMWare mostly just because of familiarity though. But VirtualBox is a great alternative.

[joutlan]

Originally Posted by Dies

Oh yeah, you're right.

Good thing there's no deps for VB then.

Hey guys....I get this:

Retrieving http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1...ra8-1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora8-1.i586
[root@localhost john]#

How do I install that dependency? I'll try to understand it later thanks!

PS: also got an error trying to enable direct rendering.

EDIT: Installed the dependency, but now get:

[root@localhost john]# rpm -ivh http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1...ra8-1.i586.rpm
Retrieving http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1...ra8-1.i586.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:VirtualBox ########################################### [100%]

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Compilation of the kernel module FAILED! VirtualBox will not start until this
problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the
kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources are not found.
Install them and execute

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

as root.

[root@localhost john]#


Help?

[glennzo]

Try yum install qt and then try the VirtualBox install again.

[joutlan]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Wow! Been following this thread and decided to give this VirtualBox thing a try. Works great! This is awesome! Only stumbling block for me was no kernel source first time around. Installed that, deleted VirtualBox and re-installed it. Perfect. I'm typing this reply using XP in VirtualBox running under Fedora 8. Slick!

Edit: And wireless works! No configuration, it just works. Holy crap!

LOL...yeah, I was running it under Mint on a separate desktop....sweet....makes ya dizzy, doesn't it?

[glennzo]

Hey, got the same error as you re kernel. Did yum install kernel-devel.i686 and that took care of the problem.