How to turn a functioning laptop into something useless

[Michael Francis]

Hello my question is what is it on f10 that you need? and why not use f9?

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Bob Arendt <rda at rincon.com> wrote:

> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
>> That turns out to be really simple.  Just "upgrade" a working F8
>> installation to F10 and that solves that right away.
>>
>> The laptop in question is a rather old Acer TravelMate 230 with
>> "Intel Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz" and Intel
>> 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE graphics.  Works with F8 quite nicely
>> (save some non-critical quibbles).
>>
>>  < ... snip ...>
>
>>
>> Add to that X server immediately crashing like this:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474540
>> and we are in a full "fun" mode.
>>
>> I did not see yet an upgrade in such bad shape and I did not touch
>> yet, for obvious reasons, suspend and hibernate.  Those were broken
>> by F8 too but eventually I got them going and on F8 kernel did not
>> require any extra options save a / file system location.
>>
>> I am afraid that a disk on this laptop is too small to allow for
>> "parallel" installations of F8 and F10.  The box will be needed
>> pretty soon for work purposes so if I will not find rather quickly
>> how to get it going with F10 I will have to revert it to the
>> previous state.  Big sigh but yes, I have this option.
>>
>>   Michal
>>
>>
> I feel your pain.  I've got a Dell Inspiron 1100 with the
> same graphics chip.  There's some partial Xorg success:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469292
> but the performance figures aren't up to snuff with F9.
>
> In the future, I'd heartily endorse using 2 or 4G USB stick with
> a "Live" version to evaluate it first. The live image is about 700M,
> and you have lots of space for updates or additional packages.
> Fortunately my problems are isolated to a F10 thumbdrive, while
> I still have F9 on the main disk.
>
> -Bob
>
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