On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:13, Bart Garst wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:50, Craig White wrote:
> > Initial reports on new install of Fedora Core 2
> > 
> > Cons
> > ----
> > depression because no apt/yum repositories for the 'extras'
> > (non-supplied goodies such as mplayer/xmms-mp3/etc)...yet.
> > No discernible way to play a dvd.
> > Boots to run-level 5 (perhaps because I chose workstation install
> > class).
> > Recognized the wireless card, simple enough to add the encryption key &
> > connect but had to manually tell it to activate at bootup - bad for
> > newbies.
> > 
> > Pros
> > ----
> > Kernel 2.6.5
> > Very new hardware - eCube with Intel 865 chipset. Recognized all
> > hardware...no futzing (exception was wireless Prism card per above).
> > New OO - nice
> > Has separate emergency boot cd
> > 
> > 
> > Goofy
> > -----
> > Lots of CD/DVD rippers and writers but because of the licensing
> > issues...cannot play DVD's or mp3's upon install
> > 
> > 
> > Craig
> 
> My experience has not been so nice (so far).
> I did an upgrade from CD today (again, on a copied partition so I
> wouldn't loose anything).
> 
> Major problems:
> NVidia driver compiles but will not run (driver from nvidia 5336), had
> to use the nv driver.
> Apt doesn't work - missing rpm shared libraries.
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probably wrong version of apt - see
<http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO>

also - nvidia problem is apparently known - I think Axel Thimms has an
early roll for nvidia - while people wait for nvidia to fix things for
the new kernel - you probably want to add atrpms to the sources.
Evidently up2date supports apt now too.
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> 
> Other problems:
> There was another warning message that popped up when gnome started. I
> don't have the time to track down those kind of problems.
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> I've been using redhat since I started w/ linux. I hate to abandon it
> now but doing a fresh install with each new version is getting old. Not
> to mention learning new apps because my favorites are no longer
> supported.
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Reports on fedora-list seem to give a pretty good approval rating for
upgrade from earlier - only problem seems to be KDE (again) - probably
have to nuke each users KDE settings
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> I think I'm going to give them some time and see if the video driver and
> apt issues get resolved.
> 
> I'm still bummed...
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hang in there - I think most of these things are easily solved.

Craig

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