One more question: I've installed the usual TTF fonts as follows: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf cp /foo/*.ttf . ttmkfdir mkfontdir chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/ttf I can see the fonts in the apps. But Netscape 7.1, when rendering say Arial in small font sizes, looks horrible, like not anti-aliased at all. Mozilla doesn't have this problem though. Any ideas? HaJo On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:54, HaJo Schatz wrote: > Hi List, > > Long story, short question: Should I fall back to FC1 instead of using > FC2? I am somewhat very concerned about the release quality of FC2. > Here's what happened: > > I just upgraded a laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens E2010) from RH9 to FC2. After > that, I couldn't log on to Gnome, after username/password, X just hung > without any error message, neither in the logs. Never mind, I did a > fresh install instead & immediately after updated all the packages. Then > the surprises really started: > > - Service PCMCIA doesn't load the yento-sockets module. This is known @ > bugzilla, one has to patch the pcmcia script by hand. Through this bug, > the PCMCIA subsystem is non-functional! > - Kernel 2.6.6-1.435 gives a "failed to bind key 255 to value..." every > time you log in at a console, whereas kernel -358 doesn't. This appeared > at bugzilla but was closed as "magically disappeared" > - Hotplug calls the script ide, which in turn calls /sbin/ide_info. > /sbin/ide_info simply doesn't exist! Had to copy it in from a FC1 > install. Through this bug, you can't mount CF-Cards in a PCMCIA adapter. > Just found out that bugzilla also knows about this -- since FC2 test3! > - USB updfstab doesn't work. Devices get detected in the kernel, hotplug > @ updfstab gets executed, but /mnt & fstab entries are not created. > Trying to debug, I realized that the issue is somehow timing-related. > When I do some sleep at the "right" points in the updfstab scripts, > things work sometimes. Can't resolve the issue though and have to live > without using my Flash-Stick & Camera reliably. > - Kernel -435 sometimes segfaults when plugging USB devices in/out, > whereas -358 seems reliable here. > - My console-beep (emitted through the sound card) disappeared ever > since FC2. I don't seem to be able to find a pointer on how to trace > this... > > This is the result after a few hours of FC2 experience and I really > start wondering about what level of testing this release experienced > before being released into the public -- even IMHO obvious things like > the PCMCIA subsystem doesn't work! Seems to me that FC1 was by far the > more reliable system. > > My question now is whether I should give up on FC2 (I'm really tempted) > and go back to FC1 or hang in there. > - Will I experience more of these surprises with FC2? > - How fast will issues be attented to through updates? The PCMCIA issue > is known, so is the ide_info issue (since FC2 test3), but still no fix > today. > - Is this what we have to expect from a "community distro" in the long > run? As with RH9 the last consumer-distro is discontinued, my logical > conclusion would then be to leave RH behind and move on to another > packager, say Suse? > > A bit disappointed, > HaJo -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
