Re: experiences with an upgrade

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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
What does the error say?  What does "rpm -q evolution" output?

Thanks

> 
> 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).
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Zingale
> UCO/Lick Observatory
> UCSC
> Santa Cruz, CA 95064
> 
> phone:  (831) 459-2277
> fax:    (831) 459-5265
> e-mail: zingale@xxxxxxxxxxx
> web:    http://www.ucolick.org/~zingale
> 
> ``Don't worry head, the computer will do our thinking now''  -- Homer
> 


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