On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 13:31 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> 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). > > Geode GX2/500 has basically zero cache (either L1 or L2), and 256MB is > really the bare minimum for the install/upgrade process. You'll be > swapping to disk a lot during the upgrade while the depsolving goes on, > and yeah, it'll take quite a while. Yea, but my Dell with a Centrino penryn processor with 6 meg of cache and 4 gig of RAM was horrific and earlier in F-12 it wasn't that bad even on the Geode. I couldn't use my Dell for over 20 mins while doing a single days worth of the current rawhide pushes. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
