20 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Clean install of FC14, regain Radeon X1600 support (!)

TweetSo I was complaining the other day about losing support for the Radeon X1600 when I upgraded my work laptop from FC12 to FC14. I was on the verge of ordering a new laptop (ThinkPad W510 with quadcore i7 and 1GB Quadro looks niiiice…) when I figured it was worth at least giving a true [...]

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08 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Upgrading FC12 to FC14, lose support for Radeon X1600

TweetI’d been running FC12 for quite a while and I noticed the past few weeks have been devoid of yum updates (except for Google Chrome). I figured FC15 is on the horizon; now’s a good time to upgrade to FC14. I followed the basic procedure laid out here and went 12 -> 13 no problem. [...]

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20 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Upgraded to Fedora Core 12

TweetI upgraded my work laptop from FC11 to FC12 yesterday using the “preupgrade” tool. It was pretty simple, though it took a lot longer than I expected. There was some funkiness with my screen going crazy after the upgrade – my external monitor and the laptop’s LCD both did this crazy wavy-line thing. I tried [...]

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