[Mageia-discuss] Upgrade from Mageia1 using urpmi: success story ; )

Thu May 24 09:03:31 CEST 2012

I used the mgaapplet-upgrade-helped to upgrade, which, from my
+understanding, is fairly close to just using urpmi and here are a
+couple more notes:
+
+fglrx:
+0) I have a dual monitor setup with a smaller monitor to the right of
+a large monitor.
+1) I'm not sure if I was using an install of the binary driver from
+AMD's site or the fglrx package, but it booted straight to a frozen
+system
+2) None of the kernel-mode options would let me boot into a graphical interface
+3) xdriver=radeon let me get to a non-responsive system, which would
+respond to ssh
+4) After using another system to ssh in, enable non-free and install
+radeon-firmware.  X still failed to start, but it seemed to be because
+of a bad Xorg.conf setting: bad screens
+5) I tried different XFdrake options, but they all told me that I
+didn't have any valid screens and that I should try to change the
+settings.
+6) Using the proprietary driver allowed X to start.
+7) I had to use the Catalyst control center to setup my monitors properly.
+
+firefox:
+1) The language in Firefox was set to English / Hong Kong and not
+United States for some reason.  I'm pretty sure it was set to United
+States in Mageia 1.
+
+KDE panel:
+1) Some of the logins for my computer have screwed up panels: both
+task mangers, no task managers and one had only the Application
+Launcher Menu
+2) I have the new MCC icon in the panel, but the menus have the old icon
+
+--Jeff
+