My experience with upgrading from RH9 to FC1
Gerard Milmeister
gemi at bluewin.ch
Thu Nov 6 22:29:31 UTC 2003
Hi,
I just upgraded from RedHat9 to Fedora Core 1.
The upgrade itself was easy. However I didn't
meet the package selection in the installer...
Did I simply miss the option?
These are the issues I encountered:
1. I had to install the following drivers:
a) proprietary NVIDIA
c) alsa
At first it didn't work at all, then I noticed
that I must use gcc32 to compile, this wasn't
very clear from the release notes.
I had a problem with compiling the alsa driver
(schedule_work), but google groups was my friend.
BTW before trying to fix alsa, I tried sndconfig,
which detected the onboard soundcard before my
SB Live!. I would have preferred to choose the
order the soundcards are configured.
2. At first starting, the GNOME desktop was in
a mess. I moved .gnome2 out of the way.
I previously always used sawfish, but that didn't
work at all. The background was gray overlaying
the Nautilus icons. So I installed metacity.
However I prefer sawfish, because it allows better
control of window placement.
I have two screens configured with Xinerama. The first
screen is 1600x1200, the second 1280x1024. With Gnome 2.2
and Sawfish, I could place a panel at the bottom of the
second screen. This I can no longer do. I can place a
panel at the top and at the right, but not at the bottom.
(BTW I miss the rounded edges of the menu panel :-(
3. Xcursor doesn't work anymore. I don't get any shadowed
and animated cursors anymore.
4. I don't get antialiased fonts in KDE and Qt anymore.
Gnome/GTK is ok.
Otherwise FC1 is fine.
Regards
--
Gérard Milmeister
Tannenrauchstrasse 35
8038 Zürich
gemi at bluewin.ch
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