Re: experiences with an upgrade

From: Craig White (craigwhite_at_azapple.com)
Date: 11/30/04

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    To: zingale@ucolick.org, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:42:06 -0700

    On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 10:36 -0800, Mike Zingale wrote:
    > Hi, I just recently upgraded my system to FC3 from FC1. It is important
    > to note that the FC1 install was also an upgrade from Redhat 9, so some of
    > the experiences I have run into might be from that. Hopefully some of
    > this will help anyone else who always does upgrades instead of fresh
    > installs.
    >
    > Some observations:
    >
    > 1. system-config-soundcard was not installed. After the upgrade, I had no
    > sound, despite all the proper lines being in /etc/modprobe.conf
    >
    > yum install system-config-soundcard and then running that seems to have
    > fixed this.
    >
    > 2. the menus were all messed up. Under the systems menu, was an
    > Applications, Games, Internet, etc. submenu. In fact, the Games menu
    > appeared under a lot of the categories.
    >
    > I eventually tracked this down to the new Gnome looking in
    > /etc/X11/applnk and putting any directories in there in (seemingly)
    > random places in the menu. Deleting these made the menus much nicer.
    >
    > 3. evolution was not installed. Clicking on the mail icon on the Gnome
    > panel just brought up an error and then the default applications
    > dialog
    >
    > 4. even after updating udev to the latest version, the Nvidia
    > closed-source driver still has problems after reboots. Maybe this is
    > still the status of this driver, but I thought I read in the archives
    > that the new udev made things happy again.
    >
    >
    > So far, it seems a little faster than FC1 on this machine (PIII-733MHz). 

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FWIW
I also upgraded this specific machine from FC1 to FC3
1. system-config-soundcard did get installed. I do have sound
2. application menus were fine
3. evolution 2.0 was installed
4. don't know about nvidia driver
Craig
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