FC3->FC5 problems - no audio, fonts bad, vmplayer install

david walcroft david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Wed May 31 01:44:43 UTC 2006


Kam Leo wrote:
> On 5/28/06, B Wooster <bwooster47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Took a while to get my FC3 box updated to FC5, using a bootable DVD.
>>
>> Now am up, and running, still have been unable to resolve quite a few
>> issues, if anyone has pointers, let me know:
>>
>> 1) no audio.
>> Using KDE kcontrol, the sound panel says audio is enabled, but when I
>> click on Test, there is no sound.

Try using 'alsamixer' some channels might be muted

>> 2) I have installed the fonts using a RPM msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch.rpm.
>> But xterm, firefox windows look much worse than they did on FC3. I
>> guess I'll need to fiddle around with specific font settings (I
>> rebooted after installing the fonts).
>>
>> 3) Cannot configure vmware-player. Running vmware-config.pl first
>> complains that gcc 4.1.1 is installed while kernel was compiled with
>> 4.1.0.
>> I forced a yes, continue on that point, and then it got stuck on the
>> include path - I gave it
>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-i686/include/
>> but it complained:
>> The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the 
>> same
>> address space size as your running kernel.
>> No idea what to try next...
>>
>> 4) Assuming that vmware-player needs complete sources and not just
>> kernel-devel, I tried:
>> yumdownloader --source kernel, which fails with:
>> No Match for argument kernel
>> I'm running 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 - is the src not available for that?
>>
> 
> a) You do not need the kernel source.
> 
> b) You need to boot into the latest installed kernel and do a "sudo
> yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" before you run the
> vmware-any-any-update101 patch for vmware-config.pl.
> 
> c) Each time you update your kernel you have to repeat step b.
> 
>> And then there were the problems I had to manually fix - kdmrc was
>> pointing to the wrong X - in X11R6 instead of just /usr/bin.
>>
> 
> This is addressed by the vmware-any-any-update101 patch
> 
>> Other minor issues:
>>
>> 5) on boot, I get a "can't delete /var/run/cups/certs, is a directory"
>> message - any way to stop that line from appearing?
>>
>> 6) I've not yet figured out how the make X11 startup using the
>> 1280x1024 mode - I thought all I had to do was to make it appear first
>> in the list, here's what I have:
>>         SubSection "Display"
>>                 Viewport   0 0
>>                 Depth     24
>>                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
>> "800x600" "640x480" "1600x1200"
                         ^^^^^^^^^^
I suggest you delete this mode leaving 1280x1024 as the largest

>> But it ends up in a much larger display size.
>>
> 

    david




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