Fwd: Fedora 8 on laptop lenovo T61P

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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

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