Playing with Fedora

Since I had a nice experience with putting Fedora 10 on the two old HP laptops, I decided to bite the bullet and replace Mandriva on my desktop with Fedora. I migrated all my important files over to my WD external drive and let the live install take over. Having the external drive available makes life much easier.

One of the issues that cropped in Mandriva was a keyboard-locking problem when using GIMP to add text to an image. It would work fine for awhile then freeze the keyboard, which started becoming a problem as I do a lot of graphics work for my web clients. So far, I haven’t seen this become an issue in Fedora but I haven’t really pushed that particular envelope yet.

Another issue in both distros has been a problem with the refresh rate for my HPw1907 monitor. Though both recognized the resolution once the nvidia was installed, there has been an issue withthe screen yellowing when resource use rises. I just let the system complete a series of updates so I’m hoping that the XOrg update that was included may have fixed the yellow screen problem.

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