On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 01:21 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > In my experience so far, Fedora-11 is easily the worst, > or at least the most difficult to install, of all Fedoras. > > Admittedly I have only tried installing it on one machine, > a Thinkpad T23 with 1GB RAM. > But I have tried installing in 6 ways, and all have failed. > > In 4 of the 6 cases, the problem seems to lie in the video driver. > The video card in this machine is an S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR card. > > The main symptom is that the system runs impossibly slowly, > with keyboard input taking up to a minute to take effect. > > I should say that Fedora-10 runs perfectly on this machine, > as does Windows XP. > Also, when I access the machine remotely (through ssh) > it seems to be running normally. > > My two other failures were with NFS installation > (as far as I could see, the directory could not be mounted) > and local install. > On the later, I thought that it was sufficient > for the DVD ISO file to be present on a local partition. > But it seems that local installation > now requires the ISO file to be dis-assembled? > > I guess the two questions I would be grateful for an answer to are: > > 1. Could I use the video driver from F-10 ? > > 2. Can one substitute a more basic driver for the one chosen > during the installation? > > > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin > > -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY Fedora Project - Bugzapper, Tester, User, etc.. miketc302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
