Some Fedora Queries

[Cool G5]

I have fedora 8 installed on my pc. Installed it yesterday. It was running fine till yesterday, but today I am not able to shutdown or restart my system. :(
I have to press the power button once & then only fedora starts to shutdown.

Also in windows we install drivers for mobo,gfx card etc after a fresh install. Do I need to do the same thing in fedora?

[praka123]

some ACPI problems?
anyways,you open a terminal,run as root (su -) below command:
shutdown -h now

[Cool G5]

Will I have to input the command everytime to shutdown?
And wht if I have to restart. Replace "shutdown" with "restart"?

[praka123]

no man!I want to make sure that it is not any other issue related to ACPI.
make sure the command I gave works. :)
if it worked,then boot with kernel option "acpi=force" in kernel /vmlinuz blah blah line of grub.
you can press "e" to enter this and "b" to boot :)

Try and reply!

[Cool G5]

Ok. I will reply after trying it out.
And what about my second query.
Is there a need to install drivers for motherboard, graphics card etc.
Or the default generic drivers ok?

[Hitboxx]

On a side note, any specific reason not to use Fedora 9 ?

It is new by 6 months, new code, new drivers, new support etc..:P

For the drivers, don't worry about them now, only thing you have to get is the display drivers, that too, if you want 3d acceleration on the desktop. What gdfx card you got?

[Cool G5]

I don't own a broadband connection so can't download Fedora 9. Also thanks to Mehul who gave me Fedora 8. :)

I have a zebronics 7300GT AGP card. You mean to enable compiz fusion, i need the gfx drivers?

[praka123]

I am sure some of our forum members can help you get fedora 9 :) even June issue of most mags will carry either Fedora or Ubuntu :p
I recommend you to upgrade :)
these errors are all related to the core -the kernel(Acpi support,apm disabled etc makes problems for buggy bios based mobos).

[Hitboxx]

I assume it is a Nvidia card, in that case, yes you will need the display drivers. The inbuit driver called 'nv' will handle everything except 3d. So you better get the native nvidia drivers, no mammoth task though, easy as pie.

As for Fedora 9, pm me your living address, I will send you the Live CD Gnome if you're interested in trying it out.

[praka123]

well,with 2.6.25 kernel,no nvidia driver yet esp for fedora. :( (it needs some patches).

[Hitboxx]

Well lol, why not?
[hitboxx@Mothership Desktop]$ uname -a
Linux Mothership 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 04:54:47 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[hitboxx@Mothership Desktop]$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

[hitboxx@Mothership Desktop]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 8108528 34
i2c_core 28448 17 tuner,tea5767,tda8290,tda18271,tda827x,tuner_xc202 8,xc5000,tda9887,tuner_simple,mt20xx,tea5761,saa71 34,v4l2_common,ir_kbd_i2c,nvidia,i2c_i801,tveeprom

[hitboxx@Mothership Desktop]$ yum list installed | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia.x86_64 173.14.05-2.lvn9 installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64.x86_6 173.14.05-2.lvn9 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 173.14.05-1.lvn9 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 173.14.05-1.lvn9 installed

[praka123]

well,you got a modified beta driver then :D
(I tried it in 2.6.25 sometime back.I have to use a hack from nvnet forums to apply diff from latest beta to make the driver module)

wait:Does nvidia released linux driver after 169.12 ?then I was wrong :D

[Cool G5]

Your given command worked prakash :)
As per your suggestion, I am now thinking of upgrading to Fedora 9. :)

Is digit distributing Fedora 9 in their June Issue?

[kalpik]

well,you got a modified beta driver then :D
(I tried it in 2.6.25 sometime back.I have to use a hack from nvnet forums to apply diff from latest beta to make the driver module)

wait:Does nvidia released linux driver after 169.12 ?then I was wrong :D
Nvidia recently released a new driver compatible with kernel 2.6.25 and xorg server 1.5 :)