On Sep 7, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Bat Phil <batphil64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would share what I have found: > > Hardware setup: > > AMD Semperon 300+ (old) > 64MB AGP graphics card > 1GB DDR400 RAM > 160GB HD configured as follows..... > 500MB boot partition > 10GB swap partition > 142GB root partition > 250GB HD configured at home partition > > > I have tried the following installs, in order: > > Gnome desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes at login and will not work > Mate desktop (64 bit) - works fine > Cinnamon desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes as soon as I run an application > LXDE desktop (32 and 64 bit) - works fine but some warnings flashed when updating via YUM (something about unknown metadata) I suggest either starting in multi-user.target (runlevel 3) or get to a shell with control-alt-f2 at the login screen. Then yum upgrade. This will get you a much newer kernel which includes many new things related to video, and it'll also get you an updated gnome-shell. The desktop shouldn't crash. So if it still does after upgrading, then look for or file bugs. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
