fc4, configuring without firstboot?

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi everyone,

I'm about to perform a fresh install of FC4, and would like to do all I can to avoid dealing with firstboot.   

To the best of my knowledge, Firstboot accomplishes the following tasks:
1. creates a second non root user account.
2.  Verifies date and time settings.
3.  Detects the sound card and configures alsa.
4.  configures video settings for gnome.
have I missed any?
 

Dealing with 1 and 2 aren't going to be a problem, but what about 3 and 4?  I know that there used to be a command line configuration utility for alsa called alsaconf, but that no longer seems to be the case.  I've tried installing alsa-utils as well as doing several variations of yum searches but to no avail, so I'm beginning to believe that alsaconf is no longer available.

I have no idea how I might go about configuring the video, although I'm not sure how much it really matters for the time being.  I want to make use of Gnopernicus and Orca and if they'll both be happy with the default video settings, then I won't worry about changing them for now.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks,

--Al