On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 26 October 2013 18:31, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/26/13 13:16, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>> I could be wrong, but I am inclined to be believe these situations seem to
>> occur after kernel updates.
>>
> Well, I just joined this list a few days ago, and will be leaving. I'd
> joined, because we have three folks at work on fedora, and one, I'd updated
> Mon? Tues? and rebooted... and that was all she wrote. No X, at all. After
> fighting for a day and a half, with his ATI FirePro (xinit would open a
> window, with no text/font at all, a black screen otherwise), we gave up on
> that, and replaced it with an older NVidia card from '04, and after trying a
> number of different drivers, none of which worked, I finally got the 304
> legacy one, and *that* was broken - I had to run depmod myself, manually,
> because until I did, modprobe couldn't find it - and the absolute best I
> could do was start it from init 3 with startx, and *that* came up... but
> runlevel 5 refused anything but a black screen.
>
> So he needed a Linux box, and it took me 1.25 hrs to pxeboot him to a CentOS
> 6, which came up *perfectly*, no video issues at all. After three days of
> fighting bleeding edge fc19.
>
> *shrug*
>
> See y'all around.
Sorry to hear that, I don't think it's the general experience (I've
tended to find hardware support is good these days). FWIW I'd say
CentOS is a better bet for an office environment anyway if someone
just needs a box, less frequent churn. Feel free to come back if you
ever do find yourself fighting with a Fedora system again.
If you're still here, here's my 2 cents: It takes a little while for one with the right experience / knowledge to get to your questions. There are a phenomenally fantastic group of people working on Fedora; they /we just need time to get to your questions. Any number of reasons could keep one from getting to your questions: family, vacations, work... Give us time?
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