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 >
