I have had two problems from the first with FC6 on admittedly old Dell (circa 2000) hardware. 1. Even though the shutdown command shutdown the hardware in FCn n<6 and today in Ubuntu, it refuses to shut down in FC6. That is all the commands you would expect are executed in shutdown, I can hear the tel tale click but the computer power is not shut off. acpi on or off makes no difference. 2. It took me 2 weeks to get sound working but it was not easy. In the boot messages the sound card was recognized but upon booting lspci, lshal, hwconf and the /proc/asound showed no trace of a sound card. Needless to say the lines related to the sound card in /etc/modprobe.conf were ignored and no /dev/audio was not created. The only way I could get sound to work was to do an explicit modprobe in the rc.local file and a lot of fooling around with system-config-soundcard, alsamixer and volume control. Needless to say sound worked with FCn n<6. Now I would be glad to hear an explanation for all this but it seems clear that FC6 does not work on my hardware for these two features. A bugzilla did no good. I am not optimistic that future Fedoras will improve. -- ======================================================================= "The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
