On Sunday 30 April 2006 1:10 pm, Stuart Sears wrote: > Keith Powell wrote: > > Hello! > > welcome. > > > Although I'm very much a Fedora newbie, I have been using other > > Linux distros for some time and am OK with the "standard" > > operations. > > > > However, I have got an FC5 magazine cover disk DVD and want to > > try Fedora for the first time. I've installed it and initial > > impressions are very good. > > > > There are some things which I have not come across before, such > > as YAM, PIRUT, and PUP. I want to find out how to use these > > packages, how to add repositories to them, and which repositories > > to add. For example, I understand that I need to add livna in > > order to install an nvidia driver. (My LCD monitor is off-centre > > unless I use the nvidia driver, rather than the generic nv one.) > > ...or hit the auto-adjust button? :) > livna we can deal with immediately, seeing as you asked. They > package their yum setup as an RPM, so install it: > rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org# Indexed Packages: 2207 /livna-release-5.rpm > > The nvidia drivers are called kmod-nvidia. You will need to run a > system update first as they will not work with the FC5 release > kernel. > > be careful adding repositories. Some conflict with others. Look at > their websites first. Many of them tell you which repos they are > designed to work with. Personally I use > extras (comes already set up) > livna (see above) > kde-redhat (I'm a kde-weenie when I am not using fluxbox or > similar) oh and the gstreamer-0.10 repos too (just to try them out, > really) > > > There will be other things I will find which are new to me as > > well. Is there a manual on using Fedora which I could download > > and print out? I would rather do this than keep bombarding the > > list with basic questions. There is no document included on the > > DVD. ># Indexed Packages: 2207 > not a manual as such, no. > however there are some very good online docs. > You could print a lot of them off I suppose. > Please read the FAQs # Indexed Packages: 2207 first and search the archives (or google). > After that, on the whole, any questions tend to be welcome here. > There are a lot of folk here who will gladly answer you. > try these first: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki > http://www.fedorafaq.org/ (a little outdated now, still talks about > FC4) http://www.fedoraforum.org > > Regards > > Stuart Stuart. Thank you very much for your help. You have given me a good start to get to know Fedora. I have tried several distributions during the past 12 months, but most of them didn't last long on my hard drive. It looks as though Fedora will last! The "auto-adjust" button on my monitor works with some distros, and centres the picture. But, there are some with which it doesn't work, and Fedora is one. That's why I would like to install the nvidia driver fairly quickly. Cheers Keith
