On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OK, I just upgrated to fedora 10. I've already filed some bug reports, but > here's some feedback. > > 1) FC9 preupgrade didn't work. It left the /var off of the cache location. > I had to fix it manually and reboot. > 2) nv driver is broken with my card. Bug filed on that, so I won't go into > too much further detail, except to say it doesn't detect ANY video ram. > 3) One thing I would really, really like - and I'm half tempted to just > write it myself - is a tool to take the stock fedora kernel and build a new > one - with the options that *I* want. Building a new kernel is a pain in > the kiester, and the lack of a good tool to do so (I'm not aware of one and > a quick search on freshmeat doesn't turn one up) is kind of... surprising, > considering that the kernel has been around for so many years. Is it that > much of a black art? > 4) KMS seems cool, but it doesn't work on my card, so it falls back to a > lame progress bar on the bottom of the screen. Can we be a little more > informative than that? It didn't even tell me I could press escape, I had > to figure that out on my own. > > Other than that fact that I can't get X to working properly either with the > proprietary or free drivers, seems pretty cool. However, *that* is a > showstopper. > > --Russell Sorry for all the problems dude. Thanks for taking the time to report on them. Wish I could help you myself, but these problems sound out of my league. BTW, if you do make that tool, hope you do it in Python. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
