This is a follow-up to my earlier bit about my experiences. I finally got time yesterday to touch my computer again, and I finished the install of 7.3.
First thing that I noticed when I booted was that 7.3 once again (finally) detected I had a USB mouse; perhaps it couldn't detect it before because it installed USB support on the same boot? Regardless, it now works properly, though it took a couple of reboots; shades of Microsoft! Next up was the video card, a GF2 MX 200. I installed via RPM from sources per the instructions on NVIDIA's website; the drivers themselves installed flawlessly, but I had to manually massage the XFConfig and XFConfig-4 files in order to get X to start; if anyone is interested, contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note! Different Email; that's a home address, vice this one) and I'll send a copy of my config files to help you figure it out. Note, even though I have an Athlon XP, I used the i386 option instead. Compile was VERY quick, no fuss, no muss. Finally, started X; VERY smooth video drivers and X. My hats off to all concerned, it seems much more responsive, and much cleaner than 7.2; maybe that's just me, but that's what how it felt. BTW, I'm using Sawfish. For the first time, I fired up Tux Racer (cute game! My kids are already hooked in one evening) in full screen mode to test the drivers; they are quite stable, and work well. Chromium, however, refused to run, and I'm not quite sure why. The HD barf is NOT the FAT32 partition; it's the swap partition. I can't see WHY it gives the errors it does, but at any rate I can still run properly, and it appears that it's using the swap; I'm not sure I need it though with 512MB. I guess that's it; everything feels "tighter" in 7.3 vice 7.2, a few things seem a tad odd, Chromium isn't working on my box, I'm still getting a bizarre HD error during boot, and I've noticed that a VERY few services don't want to work (at least with their old configs, wu_ftpd being the most prominent). So, my upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 is, overall, a success; now, if we can just get Nvidia to release their drivers as GPL so Redhat can include them in the releases.... Bill Ward > -----Original Message----- > From: Ward William E DLDN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:11 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: My experience with upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3 > > > Last night I upgraded my 7.2 box to 7.3, and here are some > of MY findings: > > On my box (Soyo A7V Dragon+ with an Athlon XP 1700+, 512MB > RAM in two sticks, a GF2 MX200 video card, and a LOT of drives > (none using the Promise RAID controller, but one using it as > an Ultra drive), the install went very smoothly, though much > slower than I anticipated. I chose to UPGRADE vice clean > install, so that MAY have been part of the problem. > > Booting into Linux for the first time after install, I got > a RAFT of garbage about one of the partitions on the drive; > I'm assuming it's hda1 (a FAT-32 partition which is part of > the dual boot between RH7.3 and WinXP Pro). I haven't checked > the boot logs to double check (I ran out of time last night; > I'll check tonight) that it's not one of the NTFS partitions > though, but I only automount the FAT32 partition. > > It detected (properly?) all of the attached drives; a 40GB > drive and a 13GB drive on IDE0, a 24x10x48 CDRW and a 48X CD > on IDE1, and a 60GB drive on IDE2. It properly detected and > mounted all Linux partitions, properly detected IDE-SCSI for > the CDRW allowing the drive to be used for writing without > me having to configure it manually (a first!) and then started > up system devices; second major problem showed up here. > > It removed my existing USB ports, removed my Logitech Mouseman > Wheel Optical USB, and (for some ungodly reason) said it detected > a new video card (the GF2 MX200). Ok, took me a moment to > realize, but the USB and mouse issue is MY fault; I shut down, > went into BIOS and reenabled them (there is a bug in the BIOS > on the Dragon and Dragon+ which disables USB everytime you > go into BIOS; you need to explicitly reenable it before leaving > BIOS, and I forgot). That fixed, I rebooted the machine (going > into WinXP for a moment, since I had the installer re-do the > GRUB bootloader, I wanted to verify that WinXP worked), rebooted > again into RH and away I went again; same huge problem with > whatever partition it was choking on, but otherwise, pretty > normal; it redetected the USBs and added them (though it didn't > detect the USB mouse; more on that in a moment). > > At the prompt, login as root, then ran setup to check my > configuration; > No mouse listed, so explicitly set it. Regardless, the optical > sensor never turns on the mouse; the mouse is NOT working. I'm > unsure whether a reboot would correct that, but it shouldn't > be needed; > the mouse hasn't changed. I'm also unsure whether it's the USB driver > or not that is the issue. I'll try moving it over to the PS2 port > to see if it then works properly. > > Next, check the X-configurator, so I can go into X.... and > here's where > things went from being strange to bizarre. > > The (previous) working GF2 drivers were gone, with >NO< new video > drivers replacing them; uh-oh, no drivers mean no X. I can > understand why the drivers may not be on the install disk, but > why did the install delete the drivers already on the box? > > By that point, it was after 11, so I quit for the night; so, > first impression, the installer is slower (and it took ALL THREE > disks; 6.2 only needed the first for most setups; my how RH > has bloated!), but seems to work well; something in the > system doesn't like my HD; I'll have to verify that it's hda1 > it's choking over; the USB mouse is no longer working; and the > video setup during the installer ate my video driver. > > None of these are huge, of course (except maybe the USB mouse) > since I can get the driver from Nvidia, but.... > > I'll let folks know the rest of the story on the upgrade after > I finish configuring the system in a few days (can't get back > to it today) > > Bill Ward > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
