On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Krikket um 06:43: > > I've recently switched over my laptop from SuSE 9.0 to Fedora Core 1. So > > far I like what I see. > > > > Unfortunately for me, there are a few things that are different in the > > distributions that have me stumped. I'm hoping someone out there can lend > > me a pointer or two... > > > > 1> Assign the machine name. With SuSE, I could either change a setting > > in YaST or edit /etc/HOSTNAME to set the machine name from "localhost" to > > "serenity". (Or anything else I wanted...) This file doesn't appear to > > exist with Fedora. How do I set it? > > The hostname is to be set in /etc/sysconfig/network. When I edited that and /etc/hosts *and* /etc/sysconfig/network, it worked! Thank you! > > 2> Keyboard layout. I'm not going to bother with the SuSE method. What > > I'm trying to do is to be able to change keyboards from a US English > > keyboard layout to a Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard layout. I've discovered > > by right clicking on the bottom task bar in Gnome, I've been able to add a > > "kayboard layout" tool, and even set [Alt-Right Shift] to switch between > > the virtual keyboards. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually change the > > keyboard layout. I'm still getting letters from the English alphabet. > > Maybe you should edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n or/and ~/.i18n to add a > russian locale. I see that ru is already listed among the supported fonts. It doesn't specify if they are KOI8-R fonts, or another varient, but that's already taken care of from the install. > > 2a> Is there a way of setting up a phonetic Cyrillic keyboard? > > Don't know what that is. The standard cyrillic (Russian) keyboard has letters arranged in a certain order. The phonetic cyrillic keyboard has the same cyrillic letters, but they are organized in a way that corresponds to the English letters. > > 3> I'm trying to get the alsa drivers installed, and some of the > > instructions involve using "modinfo" and "modprobe". Fedora doesn't > > appear to have these commands... (SuSE did.) Any suggestions as to where > > to go from here? (I"m trying to get sound working on a Fujitsu Lifebook > > L-470.) I'm also getting some build errors, but I'm going to try > > redownloading the file just in case it was corrupted... I also don't have > > a way of copying and pasting the error, so that part I'll leave for now. > > Fedora has modinfo and modprobe commands. Be sure to be root when > calling modprobe. Don't leave the "-" when becoming root using "su" (-> > su -). *Nod* I did make sure I was root when trying the command. Unfortunately, that didn't do the trick, so I need to look elsewhere... Is there something I need to install to get this going? > There are ready ALSA rpms for Fedora Core 1 on freshrpms.net. Install > those packages. No need to self compile. You can add the freshrpms yum > repository to the sources list /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and easily > install and upgrade packages using up2date. Very cool. Only I haven't figured out up2date yet. I did mention that I'm new to RH/Fedora linux? 8^) Krikket
