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Although I upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10, I did the upgrade to see = how stable it would be as I normally preach full installs. In my case,=20 no problems that I associate from the upgrade, and the nvidia driver=20 works fine. While I had originally had CentOS, I had to manually install = the nvidia drivers. After installing F9 from scratch, I then installed=20 nvdia from livna, and the ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" Was installed automatically. My upgrade to F10 was a network upgrade. But, after experience with upgrades going back to Digital Unix and=20 Ultrix, full installs are preferable. And, I had 2 bad experiences with=20 upgrades on RHEL on 2 different IA64 systems, the first in Toronto by IT = people, and the second at HP where we were very careful to do it right,=20 because we had the prior experience. When I upgraded 6 systems at work,=20 I did a full install. On 12/14/2008 01:15 PM, Stephen Adler wrote: > Well, I was about to get divorced from Feroda and perhaps start an=20 > affair with ubuntu... Long story short, my desktop setup just seemed to= =20 > get buggier and buggier, with application not running right, windows=20 > freezing up bla bla bla... > > So I decided to do the dirty and reinstall fedora 10 from scratch. They= =20 > way I got to fedora 10 in the first place was through an upgrade from=20 > fedora 8. What a difference... > > It comes down to this basic principle which I should follow from now=20 > on.... Never upgrade, always install. The only think that I can think o= f=20 > is that there was too much crud from fedora 8 laying about after the=20 > upgrad to fedora 10 that things didn't quite work. It's not so much tha= t=20 > old fc8 rpms were laying about, but fc8 settings and configurations wer= e=20 > left in place instead of running the new fc10 settings. Anyway, a fresh= =20 > install of fc10 fixed all that. > > And to boot, I was able to get compiz fully working which is the real=20 > cat's meow... If anyone needs assitance on this, here's the URL... > > =20 > http://miltonpaiva.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/compiz-fusion-gnome-fedora-= 10-x86_64/ > > Also not, for those using nivida drivers, you need to add the line > > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" > > in the "Files" section in your xorg.conf > > I guess I won't divorce fedora yet... but it was a rough patch there...= =2E > =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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