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Below are a list of links and scripts I have generated and tested on my systems to work to achieve a number of initial setup tasks. If you have any requests, feel free to ask via email. If there is a way for me to do it I will. Certain items I will be going purely off of the net for what should work or not (ATI kernel drivers for example), and will be denoted as untested.

System

Schotty's Initial Setup -- F14

nVIDIA Setup -- F14 F15

Nouveau Eradication -- F14

ATI Setup (not tested by me) -- F14

FedoraPlus -- Installs codecs, and more difficult apps, etc. Grab it if you never used it -- makes life ALOT easier

Leigh's Wonderful nVIDIA driver setup guide

Leigh's AMD/ATI driver setup guide -- (not tested by me)

Wine Related

Crossover Games Dependencies

Crossover Specific

Crossover can be a bit tricky to actually install. I found that if you download the appropriate rpm(s), you can use the localinstall with nogpgcheck to get it to install correctly. However there are dependencies that are missing. Alot of them. Use my file posted above "Crossover Games Dependencies". It is a shell script that should get all of them. I have used this twice, but my technique may pull in some in my initial system setup that I didn't notice. I generally install all my repos and do a yum update. So, if you do run into issues, let me know so I can update the script. Ideally I would like to see Codewavers fix this, but the interest on their side is quite low apparently.

The Fix

Please make sure that your nVIDIA or AMD graphics drivers are installed properly first. This is a dependency requirement. I am not sure the nature of getting AMD/ATI chips to work, but nVIDIA is a bit tricky and not kosher to do an improper or half baked install. Refer to my documentation on how to do this for nVIDIA located elsewhere on my blog.

Install the appropriate rpm(s):

sudo yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall ./crossover-games-demo-9.2.1-1.i386.rpm crossover-pro-9.2.0-1.i386.rpm

After installing the packages you will find a file called

/opt/cxgames/bin/cxdiag --debug

Run that and it will tell you what is missing. But please pay attention to what is actually being said in the output. Some failures are not true failures, in that it will look for a range of library versions that will fit the bill, and all previous ones will fail to the one currently installed that will satisfy. So if it is looking for libFooBar.so, and you have .so.6, all .so.1 thru .so.5 will be flagged as missing, but .so.6 will flag as passed and satisfying the dependency. Long story short -- just read what it says. When I was told about this, I fixed it relativly quickly by going one flunk by one, until the list worked out as in essence a perfect bill of health. I have created (and linked above) a list of dependencies that I had figured out and created a script that should automate it. If you use that, let me know of any that are missing.

KVM Virtualization Performance Tweaks

NOOP Kernel Parameter
Add "elevator=noop" to the end of your kernel line:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-72.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/lvm_internaldsks-LogVol00 rd_LVM_LV=lvm_internaldsks/LogVol00 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau elevator=noop
Cache Writeback
To set this up open up VirtManager -> right-click the VM to tweak -> Open -> IDE Disk -> Cache Mode -> "Writeback"
KSM
Now enabled by default since F12, and on RHEL 5

64-Bit Flash Player

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1119587&postcount=1

Fix Plymouth + nVIDIA Proprietary Drivers

Install nVIDIA drivers
Eradicate nouveau
Edit grub to only include anything nouveau in the blacklist entry & add vga=xxx or vga=ask

Plymouth Themes

Setting up all the plymouth themes in the repos

yum install plymouth-plugin-* plymouth-theme-*

List Available Themes

plymouth-set-default-theme --list

List Default Theme

plymouth-set-default-theme

Set New Theme

plymouth-set-default-theme themename

sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Cleric/Sorcerer (2nd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-11
Dexterity-16
Constitution-11
Intelligence-15
Wisdom-14
Charisma-12

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Primary Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron's vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity's domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric's Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.

Secondary Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)