To fix one of my problems, I found a driver for SiS 671/771 graphic card to X.org greater than 7.3 at here: - http://estebanordano.com.ar/sis-m671m672-driver-for-xorg-xserver-7-5-on-debian-sidux/ Compiled and work on F12. It needs a fix on make 'man', fix or comment it on Makefile. But only 2D resources is working, no 3D, so no compiz, but the resolution and performance is good. The updates on F12 fixed the v4l problems on a Sonix webcam and on Digital TV receivers, only needed to add the firmware files on /lib/firmware. There is a RPM for Mandriva that contains some firmware files at here: - http://rpmlinux.org/dvb-firmware-pack A howto for Digital TV configuration: - http://dougsland.livejournal.com/103169.html Need to configure the channels from the frequency table to each country. On Brazil is like this: - http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ISDB-T_Frequency_Table Install 'dvb-apps' and pass the file that contains the frequency table to 'scandvb' application and redirect the output to a file, this output is the channels frequencies that VLC player understand. No need anymore to manually install the v4l-dvb from git. The RPM from F12 works great. The ACPI only works on the kernel 2.6.32-git* series on a ASUStek board, not on older and newer with the same configuration. On newer kernels I need to disable local APIC on boot with 'nolapic', so loose hibernation and brightness control, I am sniffing the cause. But for a while I am using 2.6.32-git14 and it works great. I compiled and installed a Ethernet driver for Realtek 8111/8168B from the Realtek homepage and blacklist the default driver module, only need to add some 'include' definitions on the source that was changed on newer kernels. I only need to configure some soft-modems now based on ALSA ;) Thank you. Regards. Linux rules. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Allann Jones <allanjos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > F12 fixes all the problems on a ACER notebook that I have including > keyboard that I had problems on F10 (US International with ABNT2 > layout). > > But on a notebook with SiS chipsets (671/771) I still using F11 > because the xorg version on F12 has break some graphic drivers that > depends on the old xorg architecture (maybe the major problems are > with shared vga static variables defined on xf86resources.h that was > removed). I got the SiS driver from Debian and build for F11 and need > to compile the latest stable kernel to put ACPI (hibernate and suspend > capabilities) correctly. > > I still using F11 on a machine with NVidia graphic cards but I will > try to upgrade. F11 fixes many problems found on F8 on that machine > including the video resolution. On machines with Intel graphic cards > F12 is great. > > Gnome 2.28 is great. Many Nautilus bugs are fixed on display of > directories in tree mode. I think that Gnome cut some old great > resources to reorganize them and put each one again in a consistent > and simpler mode in the correct time. > > F12 has some problems on v4l that F11 does not have. On F12 sometimes > is necessary to download manually and build the latest v4l-dvb for > some webcams to work correctly, I think the problem is on libv4l. > > I think that F12 can be better if upgrade the kernel to the latest > release to use the new ACPI functionalities, running on a greater > number of portable computers and having a functional hibernate and > suspend capabilities, and without the need to disable ACPI on > installer (that on F12 is better but the 2.6.32 or later kernels is > great). Some variables was changed with this new kernel, but this was > already ignored with xorg package. > > Read the release notes to check if your architecture was marked as > obsolete on F12 or not. -- _______________________________ Allann J. O. Silva "I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it." (from I. Asimov, 1994) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
