Chapter 4. Post-Installation Configuration

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Troubleshooting Post-Installation Configuration Problems

• Your Hardware and Kudzu

• Pointer and Keyboard Configuration

• Configuring Display Graphics

• Configuring Sound Devices

• Detecting and Configuring a Modem

• Configuring Power-Management in Fedora

• Resetting the Date and Time

• Managing PCMCIA

• Configuring and Using CD, DVD, and CD-RW Drives

• Reference

As Chapter 3, "Installing Fedora," demonstrates, installing Fedora is an easy task in most situations. The installation process includes hardware probing, in which the installer surveys your system's hardware and then configures system settings accordingly. This process ensures that when the system boots, nearly all hardware is recognized and ready to operate.

If you are a system administrator (which you are even if you use Linux on a standalone workstation), you can expect to perform some post-installation configuration of your system. This chapter starts with some general advice on troubleshooting, and then offers some insight on how Fedora is set up to track your system's hardware. You will then see how to start and use the command line or the desktop to display and diagnose the Linux kernel's output regarding several common PC hardware components. You will also see several graphical configuration clients in action.