Adam, On 2010-09-28 08:23, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 09:32 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: >> Philip Rhoades wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> >>> On 2010-09-22 17:58, Adam Williamson wrote: >>>> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: >>>>> People, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I find it boots OK with qemu and from a USB stick and, in fact, seems to >>>>> install OK to a HD but when running the resulting install, I find it is >>>>> deadly slow and unusable (I am using F13 on the same machine - a Gateway >>>>> LT30 netbook - with no problems). >>>> Like OtherAdam, I can't reproduce; I did all that validation testing >>>> from an installed copy of the live image (I installed it to a USB stick, >>>> in fact, on a Dell Inspiron 6400, so it's not exactly a fast >>>> environment, but it ran fine). >>>> >> >>> >>> Using top I found it is Xorg - taking up nearly 100% of CPU time . . >>> >> >> Phil, I realise you've already entered a bug for this, but I noticed >> that your machine >> >> http://support.gateway.com/s/notebook/2009/gateway/lt/lt30/LT30sp2.shtml >> >> uses the Intel GMA500 chipset, with a quite modern screen geometry of >> 1366 x 768. So? >> >> A recent post on the laptop list from another user with a GMA500 >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/laptop/2010-September/000926.html >> >> is reporting 'slow performance' with F13 as well, suspected due to the >> drivers. >> >> I wonder whether F14 is running ok on other GMA500 machines, or >> whether the chipset is causing problems? > > Nice catch, Ron. This applies to Phillip and also the people from that > thread: > > GMA 500 has no native driver in Fedora, for long and boring reasons. A > reasonably well working driver is available in the RPM Fusion > repository; note that the 3D and video playback acceleration functions > in this driver are enabled by a non-free X library which is installed by > default (if software freedom is an issue for you, you may choose to > forcibly remove the xpsb-glx package; this will mean you now have a > fully F/OSS driver, but you will lose 3D and video playback > acceleration). There is no legal issue with using this driver in any > jurisdiction of which I'm aware. > > Instructions for installing the driver can be found at > http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/08/10/intel-gma500-poulsbo-on-fedora-11-repository-with-working-3d-compiz-support/ - though that post's name references F11, the repository should provide working packages for F12 and F13 too (and soon for F14). I run F13 on my own Poulsbo-based system. > > This driver should provide reasonable performance, definitely better > than the default, which is to use the utterly unoptimised 'vesa' driver. I am having trouble installing this driver but in any case I don't think that is what the problem is - I have been running F13 quite happily for some time without having to use any extra drivers (it is a bit slower than say PCLinuxOS2010 but still quite usable). Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
