On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 11:17 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi All, > > As the Dell Latitude D630 is one of the more common devices that smolt > reports being used by Fedora I thought I'd mention my upgrade > experience and issues for F-12. > > Probably the two usual things that people query are grahics and wifi. > The model I have has the Intel IWL-4965AGN device which as expected > works fine. > > I'm having a few issues with the nouveau driver with plymouth in that > it doesn't work at all but if I remove all the options from the kernel > boot line it gets to X and apart from some initial corruption as GDM > comes up its OK from there. I have no idea how to debug this. Try adding the parameter 'nomodeset' instead of removing any parameters. What happens then? > Probably the most annoying is the breakage of sound. This seems to > have every other kernel/alsa/pulseaudio update and was an issue on and > off right through F-11 as well so its not exactly surprising but also > disappointing that one of the most common devices running Fedora has > sound broken on a semi regular basis. Again some pointers in debugging > this so it can be fixed by F-12 final would be great. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bug_info_kernel_sound > The only other very minor issue I see is that the icon spacing on the > gnome panels is massive! This is currently being 'enthusiastically' discussed on fedora-desktop-list. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
