Re: Is It Worth Installing F9 Alpha?

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:15:13 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:24:58 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > 
> >> My impression is that there may not be that many testers of Fedora 9. Or
> >> at least, fewer people seem to be posting about Fedora 9 bugs.
> > 
> > Well, based on my own experience with F9 Alpha and Rawhide, I suspect that
> > X and a couple of other things don't boot/run at all anymore for many
> > testers.
> 
> Good news. Do you want some good news? I have some good news.
> 
> I have something good to say, and here is is.
> 
> Are you ready for this good news?
> 
> ^-alt-F3 now gets from X to a virtual console.
> 
> Isn't that good news? That _is_ good news.

That only works if the video driver manages to reset the video mode. With
the X breakage, it didn't. Several users reported they had to "type in the
dark" in the virtual console in order to reboot. I needed to reboot to
run-level 3 to get to see the virtual console.

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