hello fedora & intel driver + suspend question

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

Dear list,

I've been running linux for a few years but had never specificallty tried
Fedora until quite recently. My wife's iBook started to behave like never
before, constantly crashing a throwing her the black screen of death, so I
suggested we'd wipe OS X from there and install Fedora. After a weekend of
tweaking (the long time partly due to my inexperience with rpm and redhat
based distros), she is very pleased.

If there are any devs readubg this list, I would just like to say thank you
for keeping the ppc-branch alive. It's much needed, and I guess will be all
the more over the coming years. Please don't kill it off!


Now, being very pleased with Fedora myself I thought I'd install it on my
notebook (it's a fujitsu-siemens lifebook p7010, for the record). That went
quite well except for the fact that my laptop would give me a black screen
after resuming from suspend, at least while running compiz. The problem
reminded me very much of this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/133118,
that we tried to solve a while back. A small patch was written as a result
of the bug hunting (but due to Ubuntus weird update policy it's not included
in Gutsy yet for some reason), and suspend/resume has been working fine ever
since for me using the updated driver that can be obtained on that launchpad
page.

Does anybody know if those patches are included in the fedora 8 package
(which would mean that I'm seeing some other problem in Fedora), or if there
are plans to update the intel driver with those patches? I'm mostly asking
because I'm still pretty lost in the Fedora world, not yet sure where to
find things or how to rebuild packages with patches. If anyone could help me
with any such update I'd appreciate it.

If not, I'll definitely get back to Fedora sometime before 9 is released to
help bug testing. There are some really nice things about this distro, one
of which being its involvement in upstream. To me it looks like open source
at its best, and with up-to-date packages at that. I love it when a distro
ships bug fix releases without a fuzz!

Alright, this was just saying hello :-)

Best regards,
Khashayar
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