My experience with upgrading from RH9 to FC1

[Gerard Milmeister]

Hi,

I just upgraded from RedHat9 to Fedora Core 1.
The upgrade itself was easy. However I didn't
meet the package selection in the installer...
Did I simply miss the option?
These are the issues I encountered:
1. I had to install the following drivers:
a) proprietary NVIDIA
b) bcm4400 for the network card
c) alsa
At first it didn't work at all, then I noticed
that I must use gcc32 to compile, this wasn't
very clear from the release notes.
I had a problem with compiling the alsa driver
(schedule_work), but google groups was my friend.
BTW before trying to fix alsa, I tried sndconfig,
which detected the onboard soundcard before my
SB Live!. I would have preferred to choose the
order the soundcards are configured.
2. At first starting, the GNOME desktop was in
a mess. I moved .gnome2 out of the way.
I previously always used sawfish, but that didn't
work at all. The background was gray overlaying
the Nautilus icons. So I installed metacity.
However I prefer sawfish, because it allows better
control of window placement.
I have two screens configured with Xinerama. The first
screen is 1600x1200, the second 1280x01024. With Gnome 2.2
and Sawfish, I could place a panel at the bottom of the
second screen. This I can no longer do. I can place a
panel at the top and at the right, but not at the bottom.
(BTW I miss the rounded edges of the menu panel :-(

Well that's all for now. Otherwise FC1 is fine.
Thanks

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Post by Gerard Milmeister
a) proprietary NVIDIA
b) bcm4400 for the network card

^^^^^^^

forget that and use _tg3_ driver.

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Post by Xose Vazquez Perez

Post by Gerard Milmeister
a) proprietary NVIDIA
b) bcm4400 for the network card

^^^^^^^
forget that and use _tg3_ driver.

it's _b44_ driver, tg3 is for others bcm NICs. Sorry.

[Gerard Milmeister]

Post by Xose Vazquez Perez

Post by Xose Vazquez Perez

Post by Gerard Milmeister
a) proprietary NVIDIA
b) bcm4400 for the network card

^^^^^^^
forget that and use _tg3_ driver.

it's _b44_ driver, tg3 is for others bcm NICs. Sorry.

Thanks, that works.

[Charles R. Anderson]

Post by Xose Vazquez Perez

Post by Xose Vazquez Perez
forget that and use _tg3_ driver.

it's _b44_ driver, tg3 is for others bcm NICs. Sorry.

But don't use tg3 for BCM 57xx cards. It drops packets under load,
where bcm5700 driver does not. Can we get bcm5700.o (which is GPL)
integrated?

http://www.broadcom.com/support/downloaddrivers.php

We've been happily using 7.0.0 on a couple Dell 2650's without
problems, and Snort is much happier.

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Post by Charles R. Anderson
But don't use tg3 for BCM 57xx cards. It drops packets under load,
where bcm5700 driver does not.

which is tg3 release ?

Post by Charles R. Anderson
Can we get bcm5700.o (which is GPL) integrated?

NOOOO, please. bcm5700 code is shit. Yes, it works but it's shit.

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Post by Charles R. Anderson
But don't use tg3 for BCM 57xx cards. It drops packets under load,
where bcm5700 driver does not.

which is tg3 release ?

Post by Charles R. Anderson
Can we get bcm5700.o (which is GPL) integrated?

NOOOO, please. bcm5700 code is shit. Yes, it works but it's shit.