Brutal Ben
30th April 2004, 11:43 PM
Here's an overview of how my installation and user experience went.
The good:
* up2date worked!! A first for me, I used apt/synaptic with FC1 since up2date rarely worked for me in the past.
* The new look --The gnome login screen looked slick
* ACPI worked--My laptop is a Dell CPI-R 400. To have ACPI working is a good thing.
The bad:
* yenta_socket still doesn't load at boot--This seems to be a cronic problem with FC2 and seems to plague Dell laptops. Loading it manually and restarting PCMCIA services fixes it temporarily.
* video manager--something nasty is happening here, and based on reading other posts is an acute problem
* dma issues with CD-ROMS--this problem chokes the installation near boot. entering LINUX IDE=NODMA gets rid of the problem. DMA causes problems with CD-ROMs in general and I recommend disabling DMA for them.
* some gnome panel applets not aligned properly-- purely cosmetic, but I notice it. I keep my task bar at 24 pixals and some icons don't center themselves, not to mention the icons aren' t all at a standard size.
* keyboard shorcuts doesn't take my custom keys. I would like to press my suspend key and have it work, but I can't do it with this utility, bummer.
* no ACPI configuration tool. I have no way to configure ACPI on this system, or even check the status really out side of cat /proc/acpi. A handy system utilitiy is in order :-)
* no crystal or plastik icon sets for gnome--These should be optional , but there
* noncritical 'invalid context system_u....' selinux errors when using rpm-- thank god I don't use SELinux
thats about it for my experiences. Overall most of the problems are just inconvienences, and I'm impressed with how far everything is over FC1. I would recommend FC2 over any other distro to my friends.
The good:
* up2date worked!! A first for me, I used apt/synaptic with FC1 since up2date rarely worked for me in the past.
* The new look --The gnome login screen looked slick
* ACPI worked--My laptop is a Dell CPI-R 400. To have ACPI working is a good thing.
The bad:
* yenta_socket still doesn't load at boot--This seems to be a cronic problem with FC2 and seems to plague Dell laptops. Loading it manually and restarting PCMCIA services fixes it temporarily.
* video manager--something nasty is happening here, and based on reading other posts is an acute problem
* dma issues with CD-ROMS--this problem chokes the installation near boot. entering LINUX IDE=NODMA gets rid of the problem. DMA causes problems with CD-ROMs in general and I recommend disabling DMA for them.
* some gnome panel applets not aligned properly-- purely cosmetic, but I notice it. I keep my task bar at 24 pixals and some icons don't center themselves, not to mention the icons aren' t all at a standard size.
* keyboard shorcuts doesn't take my custom keys. I would like to press my suspend key and have it work, but I can't do it with this utility, bummer.
* no ACPI configuration tool. I have no way to configure ACPI on this system, or even check the status really out side of cat /proc/acpi. A handy system utilitiy is in order :-)
* no crystal or plastik icon sets for gnome--These should be optional , but there
* noncritical 'invalid context system_u....' selinux errors when using rpm-- thank god I don't use SELinux
thats about it for my experiences. Overall most of the problems are just inconvienences, and I'm impressed with how far everything is over FC1. I would recommend FC2 over any other distro to my friends.
