Fedora Core 5 on Acer Ferrari

Fedora core 5 on Acer Ferrari 4005

Installed Fedora Core 5 on my Acer Ferrari Laptop last week. Pretty Cool, really.

Xorg configuration

Had issues with default xorg.conf generated. Has to tweak the following sections to make it work:

• Monitor
• Device
• Screen

After the tweaks, the laptop screen is all of 1680x1050.

Java configuration

I really needed Sun JDK 1.5.0_06 and Netbeans 5.0 on my laptop for my java development. This is what I did to install and configure them:

• Downloaded and installed Sun JDK 1.5.0_06 (Linux ADM64 edition) from java.sun.com into /opt. I created a symbolic link '/opt/java' to point to this jdk.
• Used alternatives to make this jdk/jre default for the systeM:
• alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/bin/java 1500 -slave /usr/lib/jvm/jre jre /opt/java/jre --slave /usr/bin/rmiregistry rmiregistry /opt/java/bin/rmiregistry
• alternatives --display java

• Downloaded and installed netbeans 5.0 from netbeans.org.

Java Environment and Netbeans were fully functional and very performant!