Rex Dieter wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I have a ThinkPad T61, with Nvidia G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] GPU. >> I like to run Fedora KDE, but my experience with successive Fedora's >> has not been happy. >> The laptop just about worked with Fedora-21. >> It is more or less unusable with Fedora-22, >> and completely useless with Fedora-23 beta. > > It is unfortunate that device driver quality varies so much... I've even > experienced that a couple of times for me usually-stable intel-based > laptops too for past releases. Thanks very much for your response. I should modify my critical remarks above. The versions of F23beta I was referring to were obtained by upgrading from F22 (in two different ways). I'm now running F23beta KDE installed on a spare partition from a USB stick created from Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-23_Beta-1.iso. This works much better on my ThinkPad T61 with nvidia GPU, in fact better than F22 on this laptop. (Both F22 and F23beta work almost perfectly on a ThinkPad T510 with intel GPU.) > In your particular case, it could be possible to get driver > devs/maintainers to look at it closer, if they provided with good/detailed > bug reports. I shall try to give this later. > Looking over, > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-nouveau/bugs > > I don't see any f23/kde specific ones filed yet. I'd encourage anyone > interested in this working better to do so. I see there is are several f23 bugs listed now. I'm trying "sudo xrandr --auto" now, as suggested in one report. > Found at least on f22-related bug, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239284 > that implies the situation there for f23 was a little better. My experience with F22 is very similar to that described here. The main problem with F23beta on my T61 is that about once an hour I have a total freeze, which I can only end by powering off. A lesser problem is that some web-pages are distorted, eg the page helen/backuppc I go to for administering BackupPC on my server has lost the top of the page with Firefox and Chrome, including the text-box necessary to fill-in as a first step. Interestingly, the full page is visible with Konqueror. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
