I have an Asus laptop that suffers from the flicker bug - in fact, I filed the original that 1218688 duplicates. Feel free to email me directly or send me a tweet (@znmeb) when there's something to test. On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi folks! > > We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787 > > it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the > affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also does > not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a > black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad > bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a Macbook > Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce on > other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to. > > It would be very helpful to get some more data here. If anyone has a > hybrid graphics laptop and can spare some space (or perhaps attach an > external drive) for a test F22 install, can you please try installing > F22 Workstation TC3 and creating a user: > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_TC3/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora- > Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-TC3.iso > > then boot the installed system, and see if GDM appears correctly? > Thanks. > > Note there is a different bug which causes GDM-on-Wayland to flicker on > some hardware: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218688 > > that's something different, and is a bit further along in the > diagnosis/fix process, so we probably don't need further reports of > that one (though once a fix arrives, it'd be good to have folks test > it). > > If you find you seem to be affected by the bug, please add your details > to the report. If you test and find you're *not* affected by the bug - > you see GDM properly - please reply to one of the mailing lists, so we > can get some idea of the proportions of affected vs. non-affected > testers. Thanks a lot for your help, folks! > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- OSJourno: Robust Power Tools for Digital Journalists http://www.znmeb.mobi/stories/osjourno-robust-power-tools-for-digital-journalists Remember, if you're traveling to Bactria, Hump Day is Tuesday and Thursday. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
