Re: Plasma - any hope for my laptop?

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Glenn Holmer wrote:

>> KDE does not run on my laptop.

> What does it mean "does not run"? Won't start at all, stays on console?
> Comes up with a black screen? Your machine explodes? That could mean
> almost anything.

I'm writing this on the laptop that caused all my problems -
a ThinkPad 61 with nVidia G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] GPU
now running Fedora-23beta KDE.

I tried 4 ways of upgrading to F23beta
first Fedup and 2 other upgrades I found: the recommended method in
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade> and
<http://www.unixmen.com/fedora-23-beta-is-out-upgrade-to-fedora-23-from-fedora-22/>.
These all bombed out fairly early, IIRC hanging in all cases.

Finally I downloaded Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-23_Beta-1.iso
and wrote it to a USB stick with liveusb-creator (choosing dd-mode).
This ran well, and I installed F23beta on a spare partition,
leaving F22 as a boot option.

The one serious problem with F23beta is that it sometimes freezes,
refusing to accept any input.
I have found no way of waking it except pressing the power button
for 10 seconds and re-starting the system.

A minor fault is that flashes of graphic patterns appear quite often.
Also there is some distortion of some web-pages,
making it impossible in some cases to enter required input.

However, on the whole F23beta runs better than F22 on this laptop.






-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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