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Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer. | Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer. | ||
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== Works Out of the Box == | == Works Out of the Box == | ||
| − | * Wired | + | * Wired Networking on eth0 (e1000 driver) |
| − | * Video at 1400x1050(VESA driver) | + | * Video at 1400x1050 (VESA driver) |
* Touchpad / Mouse | * Touchpad / Mouse | ||
| − | * Think- | + | * Think-Light |
| + | * Sound (snd-hda-intel driver) | ||
| + | * Suspend to RAM under Gnome | ||
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| + | == Requires Tweaking == | ||
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| + | * Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver) | ||
| + | * 3d | ||
| + | * MP3 / MP4A Playback | ||
| + | * Suspend to Disk / Hibernate | ||
== Post Install == | == Post Install == | ||
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=== Setting Up Additional Repositories === | === Setting Up Additional Repositories === | ||
| − | In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your | + | In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine. |
; Enabling Livna's Repository | ; Enabling Livna's Repository | ||
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=== ATI Video Driver === | === ATI Video Driver === | ||
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| + | I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6. | ||
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| + | Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working. | ||
Revision as of 20:21, 6 November 2006
- Note: this page is a work in progress
Contents
Installation
Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a known bug in the Anaconda installer.
Works Out of the Box
- Wired Networking on eth0 (e1000 driver)
- Video at 1400x1050 (VESA driver)
- Touchpad / Mouse
- Think-Light
- Sound (snd-hda-intel driver)
- Suspend to RAM under Gnome
Requires Tweaking
- Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
- 3d
- MP3 / MP4A Playback
- Suspend to Disk / Hibernate
Post Install
Getting Up to Date
Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.
Replacing the Kernel
As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.
Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the Red Hat Bugzilla bug. However, the safest method is to use yum to do the kernel swap.
To swap kernels:
- Open up a terminal window are become root.
- Execute: yum remove kernel
- Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
- Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
- Fix your Grub configuration
- Reboot
On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:
# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils
After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.
Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
Setting Up Additional Repositories
In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; Livna RPMs and AT-RPMs repositories to your machine.
- Enabling Livna's Repository
- As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .
- Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
- As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
[atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms gpgcheck=1
ATI Video Driver
I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.
Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.
