Three Issues with Fedora 9

[marvintpa]

Hi, I'd be very grateful for help with any of the following:

1 Fedora SOMETIMES crashes when booting. Once it has booted it is well-behaved for a while but can then crash. To recover from the crash it is necessary to power off.

2 I have a NAS box: my windows machines have no problem with it but Fedora refuses to enter folders deeper than those at the top level.

3 I can't find a way to adjust the screen position so that it matches the LCD display,- there is a 0.5cm black border left.

I'm running Fedora 9 on an elderly Celeron 1.8Ghz with 186 Mb RAM using an nVidia GeForce 2 MX/MX400 graphics card. I'm using a Compaq KVM.

Thank you for any assistance you are able to give.

[Roxoff]

I'll try to help as much as I can.

1. Crashing. I've seen none of this on the systems I run (3xFedora 8, 2 Fedora 9), in fact I've not seen anything similar on Linux for many years. It could be down to problematic hardware - I recommend you run memtest over your RAM. You can do this by booting off the install CD you used when you installed the system. I have seem problems like this caused by hardware more than software in the past. If you assembled the machine yourself, you may want to whip the side off the case and check that each of the expansion cards is seated correctly too.

2. NAS access. This is probably caused by permissions system implemented by the NAS; if you can find out how it does it, you may be able to make your Linux box work with it. It could be that it's using NFS, in which case should be reasonably easy to control permissions on the Linux machine. I've no experience with NAS but I'll help if I can.

3. You're running an old video card there. May I suggest you try two solutions. Firstly, try using 'system-config-display --reconfig' on the command line as root. This will load an X-server using defaults and allow you to configure your display from scratch. If this doesn't fix it, you could try getting hold of the legacy GeForce 2 drivers pre-built from Livna; you'll have to install the repository file and install the drivers by browsing for them in yum, but it's pretty straightforward if you use a package manager tool like yumex.

[marvintpa]

Thank you for your helpful comments.

[marvintpa]

Hi: the PSU was faulty,- you were right about issue #1. Re. issue #3 I used XVIDTUNE to sort out the position of the screen information. I'm still working on the NAS issue! Thanks again!