FC5 gotchas

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 21:28 -0400, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> I've just completed (I think) my first fresh installation of Fedora
> Core 5 and made some discoveries that you might want to note.
> 
> The xorg project has reorganized things and screwed up xterm a bit.
> 
> 1)  The system-wide default initialization files are now in
> /usr/share/X11/app-defaults, instead of /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.
> However, the xterm man page still refers to the old wrong location.
> 
> 2)  As delivered, xterm can no longer display colors - only black & white.
> However, an updated version fixes this.
> 
> The xterm man page says:
>   If your display supports color, use this
> 	*customization: -color
>   in your .Xdefaults file to automatically turn on color in xterm and
>   similar applications.
> 
> This seems inaccurate; the updated version displays color without it,
> as xterm always has.
> 
> 3)  Double-clicking to select a word works stupidly - a word is
> defined to be a contiguous string of alphanumerics, so you cannot
> easily select a filename that includes a dot, or a complete URL.
> I finally tracked down the cause of this degradation.  A crucial line
> in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm has been commented out, thusly:
> 
> ! Here is a pattern that is useful for double-clicking on a URL:
> !*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37-38:48,43-47:48,58:48,61:48,63-64:48,126:48
> 
> If the charClass line is uncommented, double-clicking works properly
> again.  This cryptic line defines certain other punctuation marks to
> be equivalent to alphanumerics so that, in particular, a full URL
> will be selected, but excluding the <> brackets that may enclose it.
> Filenames containing punctuation marks can be easily selected.
> 
> Why someone chose to comment out this crucial definition in FC5 is
> unfathomable.  
> I hope this little diatribe will save others the frustration of
> searching for this single ! that is so unfortunately added.
> 
> 
> The installer has lost the ability to configure my ancient Riva128
> video card so a graphical install wasn't possible and I had to revert
> to a text install.  Afterward, system-config-display was also unable to
> configure it.  I was able to get the X server started only by retrieving
> an old xorg.conf from the backup.
> 
> For some incomprehensible reason, sound will no longer work unless I
> forcibly load the appropriate sound module.  I've had to put this line
> into /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
>   modprobe snd-sbawe
> 
> This module should load automatically.  It used to.
> This line in /etc/modprobe.conf should be sufficient:
>   alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe
> 
> 
> I understand that Fedora Core is the bleeding edge, but I would have
> hoped for progress *without* quite so much regression.
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I think you have at least 4 bugzilla entries to be made there since
reporting it here it is likely that this will not make it to the
maintainer of the packages but bugzilla is designed for that.

Craig