Issues encountered since upgrading to Fedora Core 2.

Aaron Hughes hughesac at clarkson.edu
Thu Jun 3 18:45:42 UTC 2004


Edward Croft wrote:
> Okay, so I have been running for a while on Core 2 now. I do like it,
> however, I have noted a few idiosyncrasies. I have read about the Nvidia
> issues, and the dual boot issues. I have tried the sfdisk routine to no
> avail, changed from Auto to LBA as someone else suggested, still no go,
> so no XP on my home system. (Work is strictly Core2.) I did notice
> something weird with Evolution though. Even though the settings state
> that .htm files are to be opened with htmlview in Gnome settings, Evo
> wants to use mplayer. If I click on a link in an email rather than just
> opening another instance of Mozilla, it prompts for a profile stating
> that the default profile is all ready in use. 
> I will have to wait for the Nvidia and just use the nv driver. At some
> point, I hope a solution to the dual boot will come, my son wants to
> play his games. It is more the issues with Evo. It is more a nuisance,
> but still seems buggy to me. I thought Evo used the Gnome settings for
> attachments? Is there any other place the settings are stored?
> TIA,
> Ed.

I had a similar problem when opening mozilla in Gnome.  If I had the 
mozilla web browser open and then clicked on the mozilla-mail icon on my 
panel it would pop up the profile prompt and I couldn't get it to work 
but I'm using KDE now and don't have that problem anymore.





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