[ILUG] Fedora woes

[David Wilkins]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:58:30PM +0100, David wrote:
[...]
> Anyway I said OK lets reinstall 3 and go from there. Much to my disgust 
> although 3 installed sort of OK it wasnt quite right as it wasnt 
> allowing me to open system tools from Gnome and when I opened a CD to 
> install MADWIFI I had to roll the mouse pointer over the CD window to 
> make the icons appear and then subsequent Windows wouldnt display 
> correctly so all in all a bit of a mess.  I had no trouble with the FC3 
> install in the past two or three installs.  Out of curiousity I 
> installed FC2 which went on 100%.  The difference in the installs I 
> noted was the monitor setup on 2 was prior to installation whereas in 3 
> the display setup is after the install.  My monitor an AST Vision7L is 
> not recognised on the initial probe on either FC 2 or 3 but is listed in 
> the display setup part of the install on both.  So my question on this 
> would be what would be different between 2 and 3 to cause this problem 
> is it to do with Gnome or the monitor.  As I say Ive had no trouble 
> installing 3 in the past on the same setup.
> 

I seem to remember that the switch from XFree86 to X.org took place
between FC2 and FC3 (or perhaps between FC1 and FC2 - I never installed
FC2 but went from FC1 to FC3).  I seem to remember other changes coming
in with FC3 (or possibly earlier with FC2) related to automatic detection
and mounting of USB devices and optical devices (with such things being
mounted on /media, rather than on /mnt as before).

(As I remember, the switch from 2.4 kernels to 2.6 kernels took place
between FC1 and FC2.)

Also I seem to remember various things didn't work with the FC3 release
(particularly with regard to the automounting of devices), which were
fixed in kernels released in updates.

This non-expert would have thought that it would have been less trouble
to do a clean install of FC5 and then go after whatever extra
RPMs etc. that you would need.  (But then I tend to go for clean
installs anyway, especially as practically all of the stuff I
make use of comes with Core, rather than Extras and third-party
repositories.)

David Wilkins