Installing F8 on Dell D630

Office upgraded some of the engineers' laptop to Dell D630, including mine. Mine comes with 1.8ghz Santa Rosa, 1.5gb, 80gb, intel 965, and other standard stuffs

After using XP for so many years, time to try other OS. Mine came with XP, so play around with it for an hour to see the speed. After that installed Vista Business, at first when it boot up it is very slow, due to no drivers. After an update everything runs perfectly and the user experience I got is 3.4, not too bad.

Then decided to try Fedora. F7 livecd can't find the dvd drive. A quick google requires to install some drivers, as I search I found that the graphics driver and sound need to install as well.

Might as well try F8 test 3 since dev freeze. Surprisingly it booted into native res! All the drivers are already on the livecd, no need to isntall anything else from other places. The updates seems to take forever to download, maybe due to my internet or beta software. yum works well though

Tried to install compiz-fusion but the package inside wasn't working well. Finally found some instruction in fedoraforum on how to install:

Compiz-fusion 0.6.0 srpm's for F8 ( The real thing unlike the Fedora fake )

link to srpm's

http://www.4shared.com/file/2593078...f8srpmstar.html

# run these as root
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install fedora-rpmdevtools

# run these as normal user
fedora-buildrpmtree


## for each packages, do
rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm

## recommended sequence to build -
## compiz -> compiz-bcop -> compiz-fusion-plugins-main -> compiz-fusion-plugins-extras
## compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported -> libcompizconfig -> compizconfig-python ->
## ccsm -> compizconfig-backend-gconf -> compizconfig-backend-kconfig
## fusion-icon -> emerald -> emerald-themes

You will need to install the packages as you compile them to fulfill the build deps for the next package. ( use rpm with --nodeps to install )

P.S These packages are built from the spec files from the kagesenshi.repo ( compiz-fusion )

Instruction is missing a lot of of dev packages, but once that's fixed it's working. Finally got 3d desktop working!