Fedora3 oddities, the good and the bad and the ugly

Some links

• FedoraNews #16 (did they stop ?)
• an FAQ
• tips
• multimedia
• videolan
• cool new udev stuff (include a fedora specific udev page)
• Dave Kristol's summary

Some notes:

  - i've got this bad disk I/O problem again, but as long as a CD is
    inserted, it's somewhat within bounds (but still erratic).

    Someone else with the same hardware (i blame it on hda=disk and hdb=cd)
    doesn't seem to have this problem. Could it be a master/slave mis
    config?

    The solution was to turn off that new HAL deamon:
	/etc/init.d/haldaemon  stop
    or more permanent via 
	chkconfig haldaemon off

    The magicdev-type problem still remains, but this is the biggest slowdown
    in the speed. If you turn off automounting etc. for the CD, the speed is
    back up to peak.

-   if you want to share accounts, best is to make a new account, change the UID
    to match that of the old account, and have the correct order in the /etc/passwd
    file as not to upset X (it seems to look at the ownership by name for who can own
    the console).

-   Did not try much, but ACPI doesn't seem to suspend the machine properly.
    By adding   "acpi=off"  to the grub boot, i now have APM instead of ACPI, and
    that seems to work a lot better.

See also bugzilla for a trail of this problem.

the obvious

1. X windows based installation went flawless again, though at the end it comes in 800x600 and you need to manually set it to 1600x1200 resolution.
2. I didn't let do a grub install, but in my other (rh9) boot copied over the files from /boot and changed the grub file there. The side-effect of this was that the first boot failed because fsck would fail because the new / in fc3 has features the 'old' fsck doesn't know about.... So, you have to edit /etc/fstab in single user boot and reboot.

the good

1. moongroup.

the bad

1. still no mp3 support

the ugly

1. huh, no more pine? (mutt is still supported)

no mplayer? 
no xine?      - see http://rpm.livna.org/  for a list of removed and why

URLs to visit:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/mega-merge.php
Atrpms 
Dagrpms 
Newrpms 
Freshrpms

some other i8200 user:  www.isrec.isb-sib.ch/~agrosdid/fedora_dell.html