On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 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. I never finished that. Its currently necking one core of a 2.5 ghz penryn and using nearly a gig of RAM. It literally now takes hours to update my Fit-PC (500mhz geode with 256Mb RAM). Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
