On 11/30/24 8:31 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I've been using a Framework 16 laptop that was originally installed with
F40 and updated to F41 (XFCE Spin), without any issues. I just ran into
a hillarious installation issue, posting it here in order to feed the
search engines.
I just received a second Framework 16, so I fed the F41 XFCE spin image
to it. After booting it the keyboard responsiveness was horrible. Typed
text took 5-10 seconds to be echoed back in the terminal, or in Anaconda.
I thought I had a hardware issue, I even took it apart again, and
reseated the keyboard connector, no dice. Still lagging. But when I
booted to a grub prompt, the keyboard was perfectly normal.
I booted back into the live image. Eventually I had a Eureka moment: I
have to keep the mouse moving, constantly, in order for I/O processing
to occur. I can type ahead, then touch the touchpad, and all the
buffered input got echoed back immediately. Some further experimentation
I determined that not only keyboard input, but also some display
refreshing gets stuck until I manually move the mouse.
The kernel that's shipping with the F41 live images is a dud. I ran the
Anaconda installer (constantly twiddling the touchpad to keep everything
moving), then rebooted (the problem remained), then dnf-update-d. After
rebooting into the latest kernel, 6.11.10, everything was working fine.
The XFCE image shouldn't have a different kernel than the workstation
image, but can you try the workstation image to see if it has the same
problem for you?
I've used the workstation live image on multiple systems with no
problems and obviously there have been many people using it to install.
The Framework website even has specific instructions for installing
Fedora 41, so clearly it's been tested.
I would suspect it's something specific to your system. I'm sure that
there have been many people using the XFCE live image as well, but I've
never seen any mention of an issue like this.
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