Last night at hacking society I upgraded my laptop to the shiny new fedora core 2 release. The update itself went fine. It used all 4 of the binary cd's (I have a ton of stuff installed on my laptop, I suspect I did a everything install last time I installed it). The little splashscreen was pretty boring, there was only one, so not much to watch while it upgraded.

After the upgrade completed I rebooted and found my first issue. It had upgraded to the new kernel and removed all my old custom kernels. I compile my own kernels so I can add in software suspend2 for my laptop. Luckily, I have all my old kernels as rpms on the laptop. So, I booted single user and re-installed my custom kernel and booted from that.

Next issue was the firmware wasn't loading for my wireless card. Had to modify the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent file to make sure and look in /sys instead of /sysfs. I should submit that as a bug to the script. Got that working and back on the net.

KDE fired right up, but anoyingly still has the inability to remap the windows key. I spent probibly several hours playing with keyboard layouts and xmodmap, and pretty much nothing I did worked. The Windows key is mapped to pop up the KDE menu, and thats what it will do. I used to have it mapped to allow me to use the windows key and the arrows to switch desktops, but not anymore. Finally gave up and started trying to get myself to use control-alt-arrows instead. ;(

For some reason the font I was using in xemacs looked like junk under the new release. Spent a while looking at fonts. Finally settled for lucida-typewriter for now. Still not great, but will do.

Everything else worked fine from the upgrade. Very smooth. Probibly one of the easier ones I have ever done. Good work fedora folks.