F10 on Homebuilt Box - Absolutely Brutal...!!!!

[Mads Kiilerich]

Oh. Please provide constructive feedback and help getting the problem 
solved.

Christopher A. Williams wrote, On 11/16/2008 03:25 PM:
> Installation was a nightmare (as witnessed by a friend who also
> frequents this list). The main thing that was wrong was video. Simply
> put, it just doesn't work

Point taken. Looks like 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465634 (which also suggests 
boot parameter "xdriver=vesa" as temporary workaround)

Let's hope it gets fixed.

> 2) Running the autologin loads a session, which immediately goes to a
> blanked out white screen after trying to load 2 "untitled" windows (not
> sure what these are), but just makes the desktop unusable. You must
> switch to runlevel 3, login as root, load X, and then install.
>   

So this is with vesa? It looks like a separate problem. But I don't 
understand exactly how you get it. And what you call "must" is a 
workaround that worked for you? I suggest you file this issue in bugzilla.

> 3) Prior to installing, the hard disk MUST BE MANUALLY PARTITIONED with
> fdisk such that ALL partitions are removed. If partitions exist on the
> drive, the installer fails when trying to re-partition the drive. 

That is not what other testers see. How did you see the failure? Any 
exact messages? How did you reach your conclusion?

> 4) Something in the installation process takes a REALLY LONG TIME to
> finish (I mean 20 minutes or more). I later found out that it has
> something to do with kernel install / updates.
>   
...
> First, run all of the rawhide patches. ANOTHER PROBLEM - the kernel
> update alone took over 20 minutes to complete. Why??? It only seemed to
> move forward after I put selinux into permissive mode - at which point
> several hal oriented messages came through. I think this is also why the
> last part of the install took 20 minutes (looking like it was dead at
> the time). 
>   

That is not what other testers see.

Could you try to run something like
mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-109.fc10.i686.img 
2.6.27.5-109.fc10.i686
and see if that takes 20 minutes - and which part of it that takes time?

> * Flash works kind of - there's no sound.
>   

64 bit machine or Flash 9? 
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10preview/en_US/What_is_the_Latest_on_the_Desktop.html#sn-Web_browsers

> * Speaking of sound, the sound tests work, but I don't actually GET any
> sound to play until a few seconds after something tries to play. Thus,
> the login sound never gets heard, neither does the logoff sound, etc.
>   

File a bug.

/Mads
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