fc5t2, wireless, & gdm(?)

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

i did a fc5t2 cdrom upgrade on a laptop fc4 machine (latest fc4 updates,
and latest 2200 firmware).

graphical boot comes up hosed (i get a couple messages saying x
configuration is bad and then it locks up). i boot non-graphical, login
line-mode, and do a startx and then everything is fine.

i had gigabit eth0 and 802.11 eth1 on fc4. the upgrade seemed to want to
force wireless to eth0. this left the network configuration information
somewhat inconsistent (it sort of claimed that both eth0 & eth1 were
wireless). kwifmanager could access the wireless ... but couldn't
activate. i finally deleted both eth0, eth1 and the respective hardware;
re-added them (even adding gigabit first, it became eth1 and wireless
then became eth0). then enet & wireless were fine.

btw, is there anyway in the network start interface to specify that ssid
is hidden (other than doing it with iwconfig command).

also, this is sony vaio laptop and something has gone amiss in some part
of acpi(?) ... i'm getting a couple errors a second about not being able
to read this or that value ... creating large syslog files ... to the
point that i turn syslogd off as a work around.

i had similar problem early in fc4 time-frame ... but then it cleared
after some period and some number of updates (at some point i checked to
see if it was still a problem and somehow it had gone away). i don't
really know if it is a problem in fc5t2 or because i did an upgrade
installation instead of a fresh install.