Adam, On 2010-09-29 01:06, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:02 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: >> Philip Rhoades wrote: >>> Ron wrote, >>>> Back to F14 beta RC3, the topic of your original post, you are >>>> experiencing very slow operations with F14. Adam's post suggests that >>>> F14 needs a new driver for your chipset (he says 'soon for F14'). My own >>>> feeling is that until a GMA500-specific driver is employed, in view of >>>> the historic problems described in Adam's blog Xorg might be a bit >>>> unstable with that chipset. >>> >>> >>> I don't know about that but I don't understand why F14 can't behave at >>> least as well as F13 with the 1024x768 res. >>> >> >> That's a fair point. I wonder if F14 contains a different (newer) >> version of 'Xorg', maybe. Anyway, Adam said he'd update the GMA500 >> driver to F14 - he'll have to test it anyway, and so it should be both >> available, and loadable. > > vesa is a very slow driver. It's possible F14 is putting more strain on > the driver in some way. What desktop are you running, Philip? XFCE > It's fairly common for newer resolutions like 1366x768 not to show up > when using vesa, although this can be fixed by the vesa developers if > you file a bug report (it's not a high priority though). I will check the new beta release and see what happens first. > xorg-x11-drv-psb should be available for F14 now. Did you make sure to > follow the instructions to enable the RPM Fusion repositories, including > the non-free repository, before running 'yum install xorg-x11-drv-psb'? I did that all correctly as far as I can tell (for both F13 and F14). > You're not running the x86-64 Fedora, are you? (I only build the driver > for ix86 at present, up till now only 32-bit systems have had GMA 500 > graphics). I do have F12 x86_64 on my desktop but this testing is on my netbook. > I think PCLOS probably has the psb driver out of the box, there would be > no legal or technical restriction on them doing this, and a Mandriva > package of the driver is available which they would likely source from. OK. Will test the new Beta later and report back . . Regards, 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
