Sudhir Khanger <sudhir(a)sudhirkhanger.com> writes:
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 02:19:55 PM lee wrote:
> Sudhir Khanger <sudhir(a)sudhirkhanger.com> writes:
> > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote:
> >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off,
> >> either. The resulting power drain would make it impossible to complete
> >> the installation on battery power.
> >
> > Because the dual graphic card support came in later Kernels than the one
> > shipped with Fedora 20.
>
> Hm, are such cards going to be supported soon? So far, I haven`t been
> able to use it at all because when I switch, there is no output to the
> screen anymore.
>
Recent Kernels do support power management to turn off dedicated graphic
cards. It being able to automagically switch graphic card for GPU load is a
long shot at the moment.
If would already help if I could switch manually.
Nouveau doesn't even work on my system. It floods my system with
messages [1]
which makes it impossible to get to the desktop. I use Nvidia binary drivers
through Bumblebee which works fine.
It`s some ATI card in this case. Perhaps the drivers would work, but
there won`t be any point when nothing is displayed ...
> More importantly, the system doesn`t boot. Any ideas how to
install
> Fedora with the setup I described so that it boots, or how to get it to
> boot?
The docs tell me it is quite possible to create RAID partition using Anaconda.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/Cre...
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/Cre...
It was possible to create them --- or least to tell the installer to do
so. Since it doesn`t boot, I don`t know what was actually done.
>Why is LVM a default "Partition scheme" (whatever that
means)? I have
>no use for lvm.
>Let`s say "I want more space" ... and "Standard Partition"
(whatever
>that is) and "Encrypt my data and set a passphrase later".
Why do you want to use RAID-1 when you say that you have no idea what LVM or
even Standard Partitions are?
I`m not saying that I have no idea what LVM is, only that I don`t have
use for it. And the installer doesn`t say what it means by "standard
partitions". I want to use raid because I don`t store data on a single
disk only.
And same goes for employing full-disk encryption. If you don't
know
what to do with passphrase, you will inevitably use your data
permanently and blame Fedora.
I`m not saying that I don`t know what to do with it. Why do I have to
enter the passphrase like 10 times? Why does the installer want to save
it, and where?
Anyway, I want to use the system. Since Fedora fails and there aren`t
any ideas about getting it to work, it seems I have to install something
else.
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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)