haggard

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with Soundmax Integrated Audio on the motherboard and was wondering what to do to be able to get it working in Fedora Core 1.

Sorry, but I'm extremely new to linux... I have downloaded the firt thing, the alsa driver, correctly I believe. Do I download the rest of them? And once they are all downloaded, what do I do to install them? You said to install them (rpm -ivh) then run alsaconfig, do I do this in text mode or is there a command line somewhere to use? Last question-I know that you can get into text mode by pressing alt+ctrl F1, is there a way to get back into graphical mode after that?

I recently installed Fedora Core 1, kernel 2.4 on my Dell 8300 which has an ATi Radeon 9800. I had some trouble just gettin the install to work, and what I eventually had to do was just unplug the mouse and install via text mode. After I had done this, I tried to get into Fedora and it wouldn't get past the graphical loading screen and I had no mouse control. Because of some advice I received, I pressed "a" at the bootloader GRUB screen and on the next screen I typed SPACE, 3, ENTER. This allowed me to go into kudzu and configure a mouse. I then was able to enter into text mode and use the command "mouseconfig" which allowed me to choose my type of mouse. So, now I have a mouse and control of it and can even get to the graphical username and password input screen. However, after this screen, the system just locks and I can't do a thing. My system is using an ATi Radeon 9800, as I said before, and I've heard that this video card has caused problems with other Fedora users... I don't know what is causing the problem, and any help would be great.