[ILUG] Installed FC9

[Kae Verens]

my own experience so far with FC9

upgrading an existing FC8 system running on a HPG6000 (AMD64).

needed to use the 386 version instead of 64 because the wireless in the 
G6000 only works on 386 CPUs so far (using a patched version of madwifi)

Video card is NVidia GeForce 7000M. doesn't work with the 
Fedora-supplied driver so I needed to use the 173.08 (beta) driver from 
NVidia. that driver does not yet do GLX. also, the ABI is not yet set 
properly so I need to startx like this:
startx -- -ignoreABI

I would /prefer/ to use KDE, but it won't work because the 
taskbar/kicker/whatchamacallit requires GLX and that's not working, so 
I'm using Gnome.

Firefox3 keeps crashing, so I'm using Firefox2. besides, i hate the look 
of the new bookmarks thing - it's /cluttered/

using a custom kernel because of the wifi and nvidia thing. Livna 
provides a madwifi RPM, but I'm not sure that there's an RPM solution 
for the video card.

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