New Install

[Krikket]

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