Upgraded from FC2 to FC3, overall pretty good so far, excepted Nvidia video card.

From: AnonymousFC3 (AnonymousFC3_at_noemail.net)
Date: 11/09/04

  • Next message: Buck Rogers: "Re: Upgraded from FC2 to FC3, overall pretty good so far, excepted Nvidia video card." 
    Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:55:18 -0800

    Hello:
      my system is:
    CPU = Athlon, with 512M RAM,
    motherboard = Asus AN78X Deluxe
    Cable modem Linksys, ethernet connection.
    Dual boot system.
    Video Card = Nvidia 5200 FX based. 

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I just upgraded my system frpm FC2 to FC3.
Overall it went well.
I used all the default options as detected by the Anaconda installer.
It took about two hours to upgrade all my packages (many).
I got a successfull completion message, and no error.
To my pleasure almost everything seems to work (ethernet internet
connection). ---
But the system reinstalled (semi-automatic) the NVIDIA graphic card,
  properly detected.
The video driver does not have 3D graphics, so OPENGL, some games do not
work properly.
Downloaded the latest Nvidia driver (1.0-6629) from he Nvidia web site.
Installation of this Nvidia driver was unsucessfull...
 But FC3 reinstalled the default driver (with its limits).
This is a pity, Mandrake and Suse have resolved this issue a while ago.
Hope this is fixed one day: Nvidia works well but Linux Installs are almost
always painfull, a shame.
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Other issues:
Synaptic: I needed to create a few directories manually for Synaptic to
work.
Synaptic detected a few broken packages (qtparted, Xine), I removed
them: I should reinstall them with appropriate RPM's later.
---
Downloaded and installed Firefox 1.0, also released today: went smoothly,
works fine.
---
"updatedb" still does not work, (this problem appeared with FC2 kernel
2.6.???).
    Problem is still the same: sloc database stop growing at 12 kbytes.
    Unless I am mistaking this is a kernel issue. (a bit annoying).
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Conclusion:
    I have not tested everything yet, but overall the upgrade went well.
    A pity the popular Nvidia video driver is not better supported.
    Time: It took about 2 hrs to upgrade all my (many) packages.
---
 This was a first assessment, I probably will be more specific in a week or
so.
 Enjoy.
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