<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Novick</b> <<a href="mailto:dknovick@yahoo.com">dknovick@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm using Fedora Core so I:<br><br>* Set aside some time when I know nothing is going to record<br>* yum install kernel<br>* reboot (where it complains about being about to run X, and dumps me into a<br>shell<br>* uname -r (to make sure the newest kernel is actually loaded
<br>* yum install kernel-devel<br>* compile the nvidia drivers (or you can install them from Axel's repos)<br>* startx (cross fingers)<br>* yum install (anything else kernel dependent like alsa, lirc, ivtv)<br>* if ivtv is a major upgrade (like from
0.4 to 0.6), I'll shutdown wait a<br>couple of minutes and turn the machine back on (cross fingers)<br>* I then check to make sure I can still watch live tv with all my tuners on<br>Mythtv<br>* Update Myth (or anything else)
</blockquote><div><br>I'm using FC5 these days and Smart Pacakge Manager. With atrpms it can't be more simple. When installing new kernel I first wait for all the kernel modules to come out like ivtv, alsa, nvidia. Then I install all of them together with kernel and reboot. Most of the time it all just works, but if it doesn't the old stuff is still there. I ususally keep one old version of everything installed just in case upgrade doesn't go smoothly. With latest ivtv there is even no need to remove some of the modules that conflict with HD3000. I usually upgrade other packages (including mythtv) in a separate batch.
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