On Jan 8, 2008 1:25 PM, Francois <frmas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On mardi 8 janvier 2008, Chris Snell wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2008 11:19 AM, Francois <frmas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I've tried to install fedora 8 on my brand new laptop Lenovo T61P, but > > > it has failed at the beginning, when loading the native X server. The > > > graphic adapter seems, (according to what I found on the internet) to > > > be an nvidia Quadro Fx 570M. > > > Is there a way to install F8 on it? Thanks. Francois > > > > Install in text mode, then use the nvidia packages from the livna repo. > > > > More specific help here: > > http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_8_on_a_ThinkPad_T61p > > (another T61p owner) > > :-) > Great, so it means, it works fine with such laptop. > I've just finished to install f8 in text mode, and it has worked fine. > The problems I have actually are : > I can't make kde to start. I've installed KDE and GNOME. I use KDE, and from > time to time Gnome. > Before F8, I use to use a file named "desktop", in /etc/sysconfig/ > This file doesn't seem to exist anymore. Is there a way to have kde to start > automagically ? This I'm not sure about. I use gnome, and once I got the Nvidia drivers loaded it worked just fine. You might want to make sure that you're set to boot into run level 5 instead of 3 in your /etc/inittab. > My second big pb is with wifi. The little led on the laptop is not on, so it > means the wifi doesn't work. > With Fedora 7 on my old laptop, it worked fine, and I got nothing to do to > make it work. Here I don't know what to do to make it work. I setted up > that new laptop the same way as the old one, same IP, same route, same dns, > etc... so it should work, but the pb is with the wifi. How do I do to > activate the wifi stuff on that laptop ? Which wireless card do you have? I'm using the Intel 4965 AGN in mine. It works just fine, as long as you let NetworkManager do its thing. > Thank you for your help. > Francois No problem. Chris
