Re: Preupgrade

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:02 -0500, Jim wrote: preupgrade from FC11 to FC12 worked for me with a few caveats. 1) I was using the nv driver in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in FC11. I needed to switch to the nouveau driver for FC12. 2) They changed the alsa controls in FC12. I had scripts that knew the names of some of the old alsa controls. I rather like what they did with the alsa controls in FC12. 3) I got frustrated with mplayer in FC12. mplayer insists upon changing the volume. mplayer didn't do that in FC11, at least I don't think it did. I couldn't figure out how to stop mplayer from doing this. There were notes about using a '-volume -1' option. The '-volume -1' option didn't work for me. mplayer insists upon putting a black band around full screen stuff. When I want full screen, I want the video image blown up. I don't want the black bands. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the black bands. I finally switched from mplayer to vlc. 4) Minor annoyances in FC12. I keep getting a selinux error regarding gdb doing a write. I found a bugzilla bug for this so I am ignoring it. There is a new program, at least new to me, automatic bug reporting tool. It appears to want to automate bug reporting. What annoys me is it complains gpodder is crashing. I don't think gpodder is crashing; gpodder seems to work for me. Maybe gpodder is crashing and I don't know it. I am using xscreensaver. Somehow screensaver got added to my Startup Applications. Outside of not knowing I had to switch from the nv driver to the nouveau driver, I thought the preupgrade went rather smooth. There was a note about dual booting in the preupgrade notes. I didn't have to modify my /boot/grub/grub.conf file to boot Windows. Because of the preupgrade notes, I expected I'd have to. As always, I do a tar backup of all my disks before doing preupgrade. I suggest anyone doing an upgrade, of any kind, do a full backup. My PC is a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, 1 meg ram. My /boot is on my / partition, not on its own separate partition. There were notes about making sure the /boot directory had enough space. As my mileage varied a little, your mileage can vary too. -Rick