Dealing with various issues during upgrade (Score 2, Informative)

I didn't have such a great experience upgrading.

My video card didn't work, sound didn't work, and, apparently, I use stale software with has been deprecated.

Either way, here's a review of my adventures:

http://thomer.com/howtos/hardy_heron.html

Here's a summary of the woes described on that web page:

1) to get nvidia to work for a GeForce 8600 GTS (and in my case TwinView, for two displays), you need to download a beta driver straight from nvidia,

2) to get sound to work you need to run a completely undocumented /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset,

3) Firefox 3 (beta) is cool and all, but it does not support various plugins so I downgraded to firefox-2, and

4) xmms, which is ugly but worked just fine, has been deprecated and its replacement, audacious segfaults and freezes.

5) I got annoyed by trackerd hosing my disk and my CPU, so I removed it.

Hope this helps.