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

• Configuring Wireless Networks

• Reference

As Chapter 3 demonstrated, installing Fedora is an extremely easy task in the majority of cases. Installation itself includes Fedora probing for existing system hardware and then automatically configuring itself accordingly. By doing this it produces a system that is almost ready to be used.

Regardless of how proficient you are with Linux, you can expect to do some extra configuration once you have logged in to your system, even if it is as basic as changing the background picture or significantly altering the way GNOME looks. In this chapter we examine some of the graphical tools you can use to enhance and change your environment. We also look at some ways you can troubleshoot any initial problems with your configuration as well looking at some other tweaks you can perform on your new installation.