I will keep updating this post at anytime
This time I installed x86_64 architecture. I wasn’t planning to “do a fresh install”, I was planning to “upgraded Fedora 7 i386 to Fedora 8 x86_64.” I think I failed but not totally. I could boot into X with fglrx, however, upgrading package makes a lot of problems. Too many conflicts. I was warned with “… It is likely to not succeed. …” while upgrading. I have to say “that’s wrong!” It should say “… If you insist to upgrade it from different architecture, then the time you spend for it can do fresh install at least 10 times. …” Before I installed my laptop, I upgraded Fedora 6 i386 with Fedora 8 i386 on my private server. The result is great, I can tell that’s no problem with doing that.
Now, I will describe what I did for installing Fedora 8 x86_64. Notice that this will not be a systematic post.
I didn’t customize packages while installing. While first booting, I saw irqbalance failed. I added livna repo (It is being merged into RPM Fusion.). Installed kmod-fglrx (for ATI Mobility Radeon X1400) and other packages, removed rhgb (fancy but not practical), yum-updatesd (too annoying to me) and some others as well. After rebooted, I got 1680×1050 resolution.
Firefox and Flash
Installed Flash for Linux x86 RPM. Run mozilla-plugin-config -i (-c for reinstalling after upgrade of Flash)as current user, you need nspluginwrapper package. You should see Flash immediately, no need to restart Firefox.
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