From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([63.240.77.81]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EXV2g-0000ll-00 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:41:31 -0500 Received: from thinkpad (unknown[68.41.20.163](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2005110302403901100r5aaue>; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:40:46 +0000 Message-ID: <003b01c5e01f$fd5c2690$6901a8c0@thinkpad> From: "Al Puzzuoli" To: "Speakup List" Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:40:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: fc4, configuring without firstboot? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:41:31 -0000 Hi everyone, I'm about to perform a fresh install of FC4, and would like to do all I = can to avoid dealing with firstboot. =20 To the best of my knowledge, Firstboot accomplishes the following tasks: 1. creates a second non root user account. 2. Verifies date and time settings. 3. Detects the sound card and configures alsa. 4. configures video settings for gnome. have I missed any? =20 Dealing with 1 and 2 aren't going to be a problem, but what about 3 and = 4? I know that there used to be a command line configuration utility = for alsa called alsaconf, but that no longer seems to be the case. I've = tried installing alsa-utils as well as doing several variations of yum = searches but to no avail, so I'm beginning to believe that alsaconf is = no longer available. I have no idea how I might go about configuring the video, although I'm = not sure how much it really matters for the time being. I want to make = use of Gnopernicus and Orca and if they'll both be happy with the = default video settings, then I won't worry about changing them for now. Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Many thanks, --Al