I tried installing Fedora Core 6 on my laptop the day before the official release of the distribution (Thanks BitTorrent). It didn't work so well. X would not load, complaining about DRI support for Screen0. I tried to install the kmod-nvidia driver from livna, but it complained that I had the wrong kernel installed. Apparently, I had a i586 kernel when I needed a i686 kernel.

This really seemed whacked.

I decided to put FC5 back on for the time being.

Fast forward to a week later. FC6 has been out for a few days and this kernel issue I had has turned up as a common problem for which a couple workarounds have been published.

So, tonight I tried again. Using the workarounds, I got X working and I got the NVidia driver working. FC6 is nice! I'm not sure exactly what the X.org guys have done with the display code, but everything looks better than FC5. Text is crisper.

I have run into one annoying problem: I can't use all the features of my ALPS/Synaptics trackpad. It's only recognized as a generic pointing device. So, I can't do horizontal or vertical scrolling or tapping in the corner for middle-click. For now, I'll get by with my optical scroll mouse, but it's annoying nonetheless.