On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > <insert witty comment that I'm up far too early to generate myself here> > > Fedora 12 "Constantine" Alpha release is available! What's next for the > free operating system that shows off the best new technology of > tomorrow? You can see the future now at: > <snip> > We need your help to make Fedora 12 the best release yet, so please take > a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure > the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, > please report it - every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the > experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make > Fedora a rock-solid distribution. > I tried out the F12 Alpha Live USB on two systems, an IBM thinkpad and a Dell Precision desktop (both with ATI). On the thinkpad, the graphics was a bit garbled. The f11 smolt profile for that system is here: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_2c5ae01e-2458-4117-8e8d-1156d68c3815 On the Dell, the graphics looked OK, but the system hung in a manner consistent with what I've seen with graphics driver bugs. (unresponsive keyboard and mouse... had to power cycle). The graphics chip for this system was: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B64 [FireGL V3100 (PCIE)] (rev 80) After power cycling, the Live USB wouldn't boot ... instead, I got this message: mknod: `/dev/mapper/control': File exists mount: you must specify the filesystem type Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck! bash: no job control in this shell bash-4.0# I should mention that I did a yum update before the crash. Incidentally, I noticed there were a lot of updates and I didn't see any delta rpms although I might have missed that. The only other problem I noticed in my limited testing before the crash was that NetworkManager pptp vpn didn't work for me. I'm pretty sure I had it configured identically to f11 where it does work. David -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
