On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:29 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > unsurprisingly, the fedora moblin remix does not play well with my >> > laptop with the radeon xpress 200m video. i get a login dialog, >> > but with a fairly large rectangular box plopped on top of it, at >> > which point trying to log in as the live user just eventually >> > brings me back to the login dialog. i can't get any further than >> > that. >> >> I think it's being done by the moblin project, so one of their >> mailing lists, I expect. >> >> I believe the appropriate action at this point is to debug your >> xpress 200m. With fire, and possibly a big stick with rusty nails in >> it. > > chances are good that's true. what's curious, however, is that > *some* distros (debian, suse) work just fine with that video chip. > fedora, though ... nothing but grief. go figure. > >> (seriously - what date remix did you try? it'll presumably be using >> the same X packages as every other spin/mix, so if you got one from >> yesterday you might have been bitten by the X server horkage, I >> guess.) > > i downloaded it maybe three days ago: > > http://fedora.roving-it.com/FedoraMoblin12-Beta2-LiveCD.iso > > and the fedora moblin page itself: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin > > suggests issues should be posted here or to the fedora-devel list. is > there an even newer spin i can test? Not at the moment but I hope to get a new one out for tomorrow to test that will have all the X fixes in. Watch this space! Peter -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
