[PLUG] Fedora Core 6, Realtek, and mousie

[Sprockets]

Jason,

On the terminal "strangitude" you experienced...

When you su, use "su -" (with a dash) in FC6, otherwise all you have access
to is / directory structure, not links. 

Your mb reaction to FC6 sounds similar to mine. FC6 recognized neither the
built-in Intel NIC nor the Realtek sound. I had to find, download and
install the ASUS Linux drivers for both of these. 

Dan
sprockets at qwest.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:44 AM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Fedora Core 6, Realtek, and mousie

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:11:22 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:14:54 -0700
> "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
> 
> > Glad to know the keyboard is working.  Yea I'm pretty sure its just X
then.
> > Maybe  it has an "auto" line in reference to the mouse instead of the
driver
> > it should use, and I think imps/2 should work just fine.  that caused me
all
> > sorts of headaches back in the day

> It's bedtime and I give up. Tomorrow I think I'm going to install FC 6
> amd64, that I finished downloading tonight. F7 test2 was the best at
> detecting the video and even the monitor. Maybe FC 6 will do so as
> well. And after that I'll try the latest Feisty amd64.

Fedora Core 6 amd64 is installed, replacing Debian Etch. There is good
news and there is bad news.

First, I took Jason's suggestion that the swap didn't need to be on a
RAID, so I deleted that RAID in the FC6 partition editor, then told it
to reformat the ext3 RAID partition for /. FC6 has a much better
partition editor -- a GUI and even the mouse works in it. But I am
assuming that now that I have two separate swap partitions, each of 2
GB, that Linux will be using them both, so I really have 4 GB of swap?
If so, I should probably cut them back to 1 GB each. The computer has 2
GB of RAM, so 4 GB of swap is probably unnecessary.

The good news is that FC6 autodetected the nVidia GeForce 6100 and also
autodetected the Viewsonic Graphics Series G90f, listing them both by
name in the configuration tool. It set up the resolution at 1600 x 1200
too. This is exactly what the Fedora 7 test2 live/install CD did.
Nothing else I have tried has detected either one -- all they gave me
was Vesa.

There are three bad newses. First, the ethernet on the motherboard
(gigabit) was not detected. Debian Etch had no problem finding it and
setting it up, nor did the F7 test2 live/install CD, nor did the
Knoppix live CD have any problem with it. It's a Realtek, and so is the
sound. And the second bad news is that the sound doesn't work either,
although the sound also worked fine with the live CDs and with Debian
Etch. The ethernet and the sound must be related. The ethernet light on
the connector is lit up and so is the light on the switch, so the
connection is still good. And for even more strangitude, look at this
that I copied over from a terminal window:

jjj at localhost -j$ su
Password:
root at localhost jjj|# lspci
bash: lspci: command not found
root at localhost jjj|# lsmod
bash: lsmodi: command not found
root at localhost jjj|# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

WTF?

However, dmesg works. Besides the same lines about the mouse and USB
that I posted earlier, I found:

NET: Registered protocol family #

This line appeared several times, each time with a different number for
#. And that is the only line in the entire dmesg output that had anything to
do with networking.

The third bad news is that the mouse problem continues. The cursor
continues to work, but the click function dies anywhere from right
after the first click up to maybe 15 minutes. The keyboard still works.
If I Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to log out and back in again, the mouse is usually
restored but, again, just for a short while. I did determine that it is
not the USB, because I plugged in an old wired Logitech and it died the
same as the new one. 

First step is to get the ethernet working. Can't fix much without a net
connection. So now I'm off to google and check out FC to see if they
have forums and wikis and stuff.
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