Did I make a mistake in starting with Fedora Core 4?
Temlakos
temlakos at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 15:57:44 UTC 2005
Dave Gutteridge wrote:
>
> Thanks for the words of encouragement, Jim.
> The main reason I switched to to Fedora was because I was already
> doing the bulk of my work with open source software. Firefox,
> Thunderbird, and OpenOffice are what I use 90% of the time on my
> computer. So even though I knew Fedora was not as "plug and play" as
> Windows, I thought it would be workable since these programs were native
> to Linux.
> I expected it not to find things like my Canon scanner and my Kenwood
> USB audio connection, as those are a bit obscure as hardware goes. But,
> happily, Fedora detected them and they work fine.
> Having a major deficiency like not being able to read data DVDs was
> unexpected. Especially as Fedora installed just fine from one of the DVD
> drives that it now won't reliably read.
> If I can get past this one obstacle, I would love to continue using
> Fedora. There's a lot I like about it. And I'm willing to learn
> UNIX/Linux commands to settle into the environment. But I don't think
> I'm being unreasonable in thinking that Fedora should at least read from
> DVD/CD-ROM drives, that I'm not being a particularly whiny user in
> wondering why there are difficulties with this basic hardware.
>
> Dave
>
Make sure you have the latest version of the kernel! The other day, a
new kernel update fixed a problem I'd had with a certain DVD title
causing a kernel panic every time I tried to load and mount it. With the
current version (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4), that problem is now solved.
Temlakos
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