Why I'm not giving up yet - Was: I give up on Fedora 7 going back to FC6

[Jeffrey Ross]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> 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