Paul Smith wrote:
On 6/9/07, Jeffrey Ross <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm sorely disappointedly in this release, not sure where it went
wrong
>> but...
>>
>> I'm going back to FC6, at least it was stable. Fedora 7 locks up the
>> machine constantly. Longest run time I've had with Fedora 7 was
roughly
>> 23 hrs, shortest was about 15 minutes.
>>
>> FC6 ran for weeks on end and only got restarted because I
downloaded a
>> new kernel it *NEVER* locked up the machine.
>>
>> Besides F7 locking the system up, I've had GNOME loose the desktop
>> (Panels?) where I had all the windows but the menu bars
disappeared. Or
>> I've had the menu freeze on GNOME where the application menu drops
down
>> and then freezes, all the other windows that are up already
continue to
>> work fine.
>>
>> I do plan on going back to Fedora 7, maybe wait a month or two
maybe the
>> kernel issues will be straightened out.
>
> Yes, Jeff, F7 kernel is in fact buggy. However, you can install the
> last FC6 kernel on F7 and it works. Here, I am running F7 with a FC6
> kernel.
How do I install the kernel from FC6 on the F7 machine?
I am not sure, as I did not install it; I did a yum install of F7 and
the FC6 kernel was already installed. However, you can get the rpms of
FC6 kernel in the updates repositories of FC6.
Paul
I haven't gone back yet to FC6 since I haven't had the time yet, however
I did find a development kernel on Red Hat's web site in davej's (?)
directory that I loaded 27 hrs ago (2.6.21-1.3224) and I've had my
longest uptime yet with Fedora 7. I see that kernel 2.6.21-1.3226 is
now available for download along with a bunch of Gnome updates.
Next question is I can't get a video player working, I loaded mplayer
from the livna archives and when I run it I get the following error:
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 512 x 384 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 512x384 => 512x384 Planar YV12
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0
0
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0
0
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0
(goes until I stop the playback)
I then get the audio but no video
I tried adding to the Device section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
Option "VideoRam" "65536"
Option "CacheLines" "1980"
But that made no difference.
The video card is an Intel video card built into the motherboard. lspci
reports the following:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
suggestions?
Thanks, Jeff
