Notes with regard to Fedora Core 2; for older versions, see down the page.

No NVIDIA/ATI binary drivers?

It's not really Fedora's fault1?. A new feature in the 2.6 linux kernel shrinking the stack size to 4k is enabled in Fedora's distributed kernel, so binary modules need to be changed to fit. NVidia's binary driver (version 5336 and earlier) don't work with the 4k stack size.

Options, in order from "now" to "later":

• Grab Linuxant's recompiled kernel which is the standard Fedora kernel recompiled without 4k stacks.
• Wait for a release from your graphics vendor
• Get a kernel.org kernel and compile back to 8k stacks.
• Get a Red Hat kernel, reverse the "make 4K stacks permanent patch" and rebuild it with 8k stacks

As for ATI, see RadeonNotes - the drivers work but you need to patch them for regparm and apply other Fedora fixes.

How do I stop Nautilus from opening a new window for every folder?

Where is Nautilus hiding the navigation buttons and the location bar?

How do I make Nautilus not suck? How do I make Nautilus not spatial?

• gconf-editor -> apps -> nautilus -> preferences -> always_use_browser

How do i turn off the graphical startup and make the kernel more verbose when it is booting?

• Edit /etc/sysconfig/init and change GRAPHICAL to no

How do i make the kernel more verbose before it spawns init?

• Edit /etc/grub.conf and remove the quiet option passed to the kernel

Why does Gaim not connect to the Jabber server in FedoraCore 2?

Gaim has (had?) a bug where it wouldn't fall back to IPv4 when it cannot connect to a jabber server on IPv6. This has been fixed in recent CVS versions. See the bug report

To get a recent CVS build, see http://michelinakis.gr/Dimitris/gaim/.

Why is my networking slow in FedoraCore 2?

How do I disable IPv6 in FedoraCore 2?

• You probably want to disable IPv6 in FedoraCore 2.

echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf echo "alias ipv6 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf

• See also http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg00310.html.

Why does VI not recognize my Arrow Keys?

FedoraCore 2 no longer requires vim-common to be installed when you install vim-minimal. This makes vim not work very well. Install the vim-common rpm and all should be resolved.

Why doesn't CrossoverOffice work under FedoraCore 2?

Several features enabled by default in FedoraCore break Wine and therefore CrossoverOffice. See CXOfficeNotes for details how on to fix this.

Why is named broken?

I'm getting rndc: connect failed: connection refused when i try and stop named

named in FedoraCore uses a chroot jail to run in (/var/named/chroot). The configuration files for named (/etc/named.conf, /etc/rndc.key) need to be copied into /var/named/chroot/etc so named can read them when it loads up. Forget about the ones in /etc, it's broken.
For more info see Bugzilla 124992

NTFS support?

Disabled by Red Hat for patent reasons; get pre-compiled NTFS kernel RPMS for Fedora here.

For more information about Fedora, see our FedoraProject page.

Older stuff...

NVIDIA GLX Drivers with Fedora Core 1.

• The current NVIDA GLX drivers don't compile out of the box on Fedora. They require you to "export CC=gcc32" before running the installer. This was not the case on RedHat 9. Perhaps the Installer detected the compiler correctly on RH9??

  • FC1 ships with gcc 3.3, but the kernel doesn't compile with it yet so its compiled with 3.2 This means all kernel drivers need to be compiled with gcc3.2, which is included for just this reason. -- AlastairPorter
• The drivers linked off the NVIDIA drivers webpage are older than the current driver set. The current set (as of 22/12/03) is 1.0-5328. I assume these match up with the ForceWare? 53 series for Windows.

• The only version of the NVIDIA drivers I could get to work with my GeForce 5700 were 5328. I've not nailed down the complete set of variables but I got it to work fine with the following options in the "Device" section

  Option "NvAGP" "3" Option "!ConnectedMonitor?" "DFP" Option "!UseEdidFreqs?" "on"

Note that I have a Digital Flat Panel monitor connected to the DVI port on my card. I'm going to play with TwinView etc later so will update on success/failure of doing that.

Footnotes

1? Actually, this is NVIDIA's fault for not shipping open source drivers. Everything else is secondary. -- StuartYeates

Some people are pragmatic enough to realise that open source drivers aren't going to happen immediately, and would like to make their systems useful immediately. -- CraigBox

Some people are pragmatic enough to realise that being dependant on another company for their drivers means you have to wait for them to upgrade their drivers, and if you want to make changes to the kernel, you have to be careful not to disturb the driver or it'll break. -- PerryLorier

Some people think that accelerated 3D is that important. :) Actually, the concern here, was that the computer on my TV wouldn't display X at all using the nv driver. Changing to the 'nvidia' driver made the problem go away completely. This was on FC1, and I haven't upgraded since. -- CraigBox