>> 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? It has certainly improved it. I wasn't in front of the machine as it booted this morning so I'll need to check out plymouth this evening but the responsiveness of the display is improved and I don't get duplicate mouse pointers now. The performance seems reduced compared to F-11 though :-( >> 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. :) Thanks for the pointer. I noticed its also been tweaked in todays rawhide. I've also noticed of late that yum performance has gone through the floor too. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
