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Originally posted by dhamsaic
Maggie - Use the binaries from http://www.nvidia.com when you upgrade instead of going with what RedHat ships. Well. If you play 3D games, anyway. I don't believe RedHat ships the NVIDIA drivers - actually, I'm positive of it.
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No, they don't. Which is why I'm running binaries from nvidia.com already, you see. If RH7.2 breaks nVidia, it could be a big PITA to straighten things out, and I need this machine to *work* for job searching. The nVidia board was a surplus gift from a friend, but I've gotten accustomed to the high-res display and accelleration performance. I run Descent II a lot and the FlightGear sim a little bit. There was also some rumbling about Bad Craziness in the newer nVidia binaries...haven't looked into that lately to see if it was resolved.
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As for dist-upgrades, you shouldn't have any problem unless you're like me and muck with all sorts of things to make your system run *exactly* how you want it to. I am stupid and do this. Therefore, once I have an install in place, I cannot ever do a dist-upgrade, because it will break things...
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Well, I've diddlled just enough things to make me cautious about just slamming in a new dist-upgrade...and the display driver and the Equinox board are the biggest targets for that sort of thing. There's prolly a bunch of stuff on RH7.2 that will be in the nice-to-have category...in fact I already installed the StarOffice5.2 that came with the CDs because I needed it to typeset the ham radio club newsletter that I'm now editing.
I just need to clear out a little headspace, energy and time to be prepared to repair any goofy little shit that breaks when I do the upgrade. For Kasumi (my machine's name) to be down is a headache for me *and* Gwen, because Kasumi is the household gateway.
When I was working and had the extra time, resources and wideband net access , I used to run the latest Moz flavor-of-the-month and religiously sent in the Talkbacks. I don't feel like I have the slack for that at the moment. I did do the Bugzilla votes though...my good netizenship deed for the week. I do want Mozilla to get better than it is, but I use it because it *is* better than the other browsers already, except of course for the spots where's it's currently broken. I scoot around those for now, and it's not like they're not already well-known issues.