Hi; I have a friend staying with me for a couple of weeks. He is moving here from another city and waiting for his new house purchase to close and for his furniture with his computer to arrive. A perfect captive audience to sell Linux and Fedora to. My Fedora Core 6 i386 doesn't work. "Np problem" says I to my friend, "I am on one of the most friendly and helpful mailing lists in the world. You won't find anything like it for help on Windows." I send off a post describing my problem. No reply. I try to show him the new compiz. It doesn't work. I send a post describing my problem. No reply I dig around and find that my video card using r128 driver doesn't work. I send a post asking when it might be fixed. No reply. I go to my backed up FC5 /etc/X11/xorg.conf and copy some of the elements to my FC6 xorg.conf. I am not sure this will work, so I send a post to this list asking if I will break anything. No reply. I search Red Hat bugzilla for Fedora. I find a bug that is similar to mine and add appropriate comments. No reply I run into other problems that may be window manager related. I send off a post. No reply. "Well" I say to my friend "in the meantime, lets get some other things working." I try to set up Gnomeradio. It doesn't work. I send a post to the Gnome mailing list, wait a few days, then post the same problem to the Fedora mailing list. No reply. Sessions manager doesn't work. Several other applications are wonky. I send off a list of wonky applications. No reply. This morning my friend says that he is going out to look for a new Mac computer. No reply from me. I have googled and searched and found all kinds of stories and comments about the failure/disagreement over AIGLX on r128 type video cards. Most of the comments seem outdated. Can someone tell me: Is this being fixed? Is there a workaround? Do I need a new video card? Have I in someway in the past offended everybody on this list? If I prepare a list of things-no-longer-working correctly, can someone tell which ones are video card related? I understand this is an all volunteer list. I have tried to give advice when I could. I understand that FC6 is cutting edge and could have bugs. I have been through the growing pains for FC3, FC4 and FC5. Luckily, I have some work that has to be done I M$ Excel for today. But I would like to show my friend more than half a Linux system. -- Regards Bill
