Why reinstall?

My Hauppauge Nova-T PCI TV tuner was autodetected properly when I first put it in, but udev has broken since and now I cant even get a /dev/dvb/ directory.

My ATI Radeon X600SE used to work fine, but now hardware DRI acceleration is stukkend. A rebuild should help this.

Linux is currently taking >3mins to boot, something's definitely wrong there.

Occasionally boots up with no keyboard support.

Suspend to disk doesnt work. Not that I'm hoping a reinstall will fix, but you never know.

I installed too much crap before. And didnt make any appropriately timed backups to roll back to.

And I figure I've practiced enough now. Time for a mildly serious build. Hence starting this blog.