Fedora core 2 is now available

[Belwarrior]

For those who had been looking forward to the Fedora Core 2 release.. I havent been able to get hold of the release notes yet.. so i have no idea of what has changed

here's the link http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...re/2/i386/iso/

[TransformX]

Installed it and then got back to FC1.
Reason: installing nVIDIA (graphic) driver caused a system freeze (seems like xorg isn't where XF86 is)

[TnT]

From Slashdot
It seems Fedora Core doesn't like to boot alongside Windows 2K or XP. According to a bug first reported in February on Fedora's bugzilla site it has a tendency to chew up partition maps making it impossible to dual boot into Windows. No one seems to know quite what is causing the problem and a lot of people are ending up with unbootable machines.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by TransformX
Installed it and then got back to FC1.
Reason: installing nVIDIA (graphic) driver caused a system freeze (seems like xorg isn't where XF86 is)

X.org is (for now) practically identical to XFree86 4.4. There's probably just some subtle differences which nVidia aren't taking account of yet.

[tutkija]

i went back from my parhelia to good old g400max and found it superior on crt

this on fedora 2 with shuttle sn85g4 and amd64.

[leech]

So how does the Parhelia driver run under X.org? As of now, whether I am under 2.6.x (I've tried 2.6.5 and 2.6.6) and under the 2.4.x (2.4.25) XFree86 4.3 (debian unstable's newest packages) will crash. It's 100% stable until I try to log out. Then it just blanks the screen. I actually think that it's not X crashing, but GDM that does, because even if I don't log in through GDM and I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del from the console, it hangs on GDM shutting down. Any ideas?

I'm currently running GDM version 2.4.4.7-3 from unstable. It's quite irritating. This happens with Triple-Head Independant and stretched, as well as single-head mode.

Leech

[tutkija]

parhelia does not work on X.org,, because i am now running amd64 system . on 32-bit system it works. Mayby tft gives better quality on parhelia, i just sold my 17" tft in order to by 19" tft

[jib]

i just sold my 17" tft in order to by 19" tft

I did the same thing and regret it. Visually the only difference between a good 17" and a good 19" is the "dot pitch" or what you would call that on a LCD. Native resolution is still the same.

If I could send back my 19 I would .. and save up for a 1600x1200 lcd or maybe .. oled hehe.

[Wombat]

I just upgraded to FC2 on my Linux box. It's running a G400.

Things are finally running well. However, when I tell mplayer to "full screen" it sets up in the wrong location, a few inches to the right and a couple down. Anybody seen this before?

[Ribbit]

I've had various fullscreen problems with MPlayer over the years. It's just impossible to be compatible with all the window managers out there.

I currently have no problems (on my desktop) as long as I don't move the window before fullscreening. On my laptop it occasionally does something strange, which is normally solved by quitting and re-running it. Desktop runs Metacity on a Radeon R200, laptop runs Openbox on a Neomagic. Both running X.org.

[Wombat]

Okay, it works with KDE. Odd.

Yeah, definitely liking KDE over the new Gnome.

Now, if I could just get the damn machine to recognize that this is a WHEEL mouse....

[Slougi]

Originally posted by Wombat
I just upgraded to FC2 on my Linux box. It's running a G400.

Things are finally running well. However, when I tell mplayer to "full screen" it sets up in the wrong location, a few inches to the right and a couple down. Anybody seen this before?

I see the same thing on Gentoo running GNOME 2.6, must be a mplayer - gnome issue.