Fedora-11 rant

[Timothy Murphy]

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?




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Timothy Murphy  
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