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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