Re: Advice on fc6-test2-dvd-x86_64

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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi folks,

On account of continue problem on FC5_64 I'm prepared erasing it.

Have you tried "fc6-test2-dvd-x86_64". Any comment? I'm prepared to
test it instead of reinstalling FC5_64. Advice would be appreciated.

I have not had any major problems with FC5 on X86_64. (I have two AMD64 systems and they run very well.)

If you are having problems on FC5, do NOT go to FC6t2. You will be very unhappy.

Currently I am seeing the following with FC6t2 on my laptop.

- xorg.conf does not get set up correctly. It is missing almost all of the extensions and options. It does not have the correct resolution. The control panel does not allow me to change the monitor type. (Does not even start the dialog from the display app.) It also starts up in 16 bit color and transparencies do not work. (Like the Fedora logo at the start of Gnome.)

- yum update does not allow me to update all of what I need due to missing libraries needed by evolution and other apps. (Which makes it difficult to update Gnome, due to dependancies.)

- The xen kernel gives me all sorts of frequency scaling errors with powernow-k8. (Lots of illegal values and the frequency says locked in place at whereever it was at last.)

- The Xen kernel-devel has/had a mucked up kernel build directory. Broke building of any additional kernel modules. (I tried with MadWifi and the latest nVIDIA driver. Neither worked with the xen kernel.)

- The nVIDIA closed source driver builds and gives a correct resolution, but none of the window decorations function.

I am sure there are more.

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