On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:22 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Just thought I would post that I successfully upgraded my FC7 to FC8 via 
> YUM, and it went pretty smoothly. I first manually downloaded the 
> fedora-release* packages from an FC8 repo mirror, and installed them via 
> "rpm -Uvh fedora*".  Then I did a "yum clean all" followed by "yum 
> upgrade". After downloading and installing 1.1GB of new packages, I am 
> now up and running FC8.
> 
> So far I have noticed that for some reason my main fonts have 
> changed...definitely larger point size. I checked my theme config and it 
> was set to "custom" for some reason. I set it to the "Fedora" theme and 
> it had no effect. I was previously using the nvidia drivers from the 
> livna repo (which seem to work better for dual head), so that could have 
> something to do with it. I no longer see the nvidia logo when X starts 
> up, so I think I'm no longer using it, but dual head still works fine.
> 
> Another thing I noticed is that I no longer have an issue with booting 
> while my Logitech Webcam is plugged in. With FC7 it would for some 
> reason set the webcam as my primary sound device (it has a mic 
> built-in), and so my normal sound would not work unless I booted with 
> the webcam unplugged. I could then plug it in later and all would work 
> fine.  This issue seems to be fixed now, not sure if new kernel did it, 
> or if its the new sound drivers.
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dude - forgive me because I am such a slacker. I should have pointed you
toward this...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq?highlight=%28upgrade%29%7C%
28yum%29

There is some real valuable info here

Craig

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