Fedora Core 2 Problems

[Wayne Steenburg]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 15:32, James Baker wrote:
> I did a fresh install of Core 2 last night.  Here are the problems so far 
> (none of which I had with Redhat 9; I skipped Core 1):
> 
> 1. Core 2 does NOT allow you to specify a mouse-type during install.  It 
> turns out that Core2 is choosing the wrong mouse during install, which 
> causes my mouse to behave extremely erratically.  I wish they would just let 
> me specify my mouse during install, like all previous versions did.
> 
> 2. cdrecord doesn't work at all.  Even the simple command
> cdrecord -scanbus
> fails.  I've never had any problems with cdrecord before, going back to 
> Redhat 7.1
> 
> 3. When I scroll up and down a terminal window that is filled with text, the 
> lower text gets wiped out.  This kind of problem should not occur once a 
> system is out of it's infancy.  I can't believe they didn't find it during 
> development.
> 
> With this many problems so early, I shudder to think what I will find once I 
> delve deeper.
> 
Running system-config-mouse and selecting your mouse *should* take care
of problems 1 and 3.