Fedora Install, Again

Ok, i’m getting plenty of practice here. My new laptop arrived today, and yes, despite the aust web page saying otherwise, it has a thinklight, yay! Don’t know what i’m going to do with the (hefty) monitor stand it came with - but it was part of the deal.

I downloaded and installed FC9 x86_64. I never started windows.

  • The installer graphics were a bit messy, but it was functional. (borders cut off/artefacts left behind)
  • I was looking some stuff up using a terminal, and left it there - then the machine shutdown (finished installation?), but it stayed turned on and it didn’t reboot.
  • Upon a power cycle I ended up with a ‘No Operating System Found’ message. Hmm, not good. Apparently there’s some Lenovo stuff on the first partition - or there was. But I don’t think the installer finished, and grub wasn’t installed, or it was installed in the wrong place.
  • After mucking about a lot to try to recover it I gave up and ran a re-install. This time I installed no ‘install options’ (to make it a bit faster), but made note to check the grub install - onto the MBR. I lost any windows/recovery crap, but I didn’t want it (and it was already lost).
  • Success!
  • No wireless. I installed the madwifi driver for the wireless card - but haven’t tested it so far. I hope it works, using my roamabout card on this would be more of an inconvenience than on my T40.
  • I got the finger print reader going for login - thought i may as well try it.
  • Played with desktop effects, yay.
  • Installed some packages. Hmm, the icons don’t show up in the menu’s. e.g. emacs.
  • IMO the default mouse acceleration is way too fast - maybe its ok if you have ADHD and are on speed, but I can’t keep up. Setting it in prefs kinda works (but not at the login window), but then the gspot is too slow. Oh well.

I played with ADA last night.

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3 Comments

  1. ajax
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 1:42 pm | Permalink

    re mouse accel: Does your X log say you’re loading evdev or synaptics? I’ve seen a few machines where evdev ends up feeling way too sensitive, almost certainly because we’re just dumping the touchpad events straight through without any filtering.

  2. Aidan Skinner
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    Ada is pretty hot. I miss it. What graphics card’s in your thinkpad? I bailed from Ubuntu to Fedora on my z61 with an ATI X1400 which basically works, but can’t do 3d. Or video. Which is annoying.

  3. zucchi
    Posted June 25, 2008 at 5:44 am | Permalink

    ajax: no touchpad, only the g-spot (aka ‘trackpoint’) on that machine. It was an usb mouse which was too fast, the g-spot felt about right.

    aidan: some intel thing (’media accelerator x3100′ - 965?). It was enough to run ‘desktop effects’ at ok if not blinding speed, and it does video too (afaict).

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