[KLUG Members] Fedora 2 installation

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Well, do I have problems after upgrading RH9 to Fedora 2.
> I can't get xinit, startx, xfce, etc. to work since I do not have
> permission to use the X drivers.  Before I could give the command
> xhost +
> as 'deal', the login name, and everyone had access to  Xwindows.

Are you sure X is listening for TCP connections?  By default Fedora
seems not too;  there is some -nolisten or some such.  Broken, IMHO, but
they'd call it 'security'.

> The internet via DSL works fine, other than the absence of Xwindows.
> Should I be learning more about X.org?  The Xwindow system is apparently
> now of x.org origin.

This is true.  Since they switched to x.org I have to boot to run level
3 and startx manually;  automatically starting X just causes a video
spasm.

> The script that I used to use, invoking insmod on various modules, to wet
> up my parallel port zip drive no longer works, the specified modules no
> longer being recognized.
> 
> Apropos gives NO information.  Initially I could not use man to obtain
> manual files but that is working now for some reason.

I had this same problem.  Installing some set of packages seems to have
fixed it;  I don't know which install or upgrade did it.  The Fedora
dependency tree is WHACKED!  I can't even install the headers for
libsoup for the version of libsoup I have because it says it requires an
older version of libsoup!?  

I'm going to run screaming into the arms of SuSe this weekend.  This is
freakin' ridiculous.

> I have to use chroot /mnt/sysimage to get into the directory structure I
> know.

Yep, me too, the installer left me with a non-bootable machine.

> I don't know how to play mp3 files (no xmms with no xwindows).

Get xmms from freshrpms.net

> If I can't get these problems, primarily graphic, working, I'll have to
> try to "update" to RH9 again.
> Hopefully someone else will have tried to update RH9 to Fedora 2 as did
> Bruce Smith with Fedora 1 and can help out...
> Anxiously awaiting some suggestions,   Ralph