When will Fedora work again?
Jos Vos
jos at xos.nl
Sun Mar 8 17:01:07 UTC 2009
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 12:33:26PM -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> Things went south a week after install, when the Intel hardware / dbus and pam
> updates came out. Many bugs have been filed, by myself and others. Most
> go unanswered, and the focus seems to be on bypassing rather than fixing
> issues. All F10 code updates so far have not addressed these problems.
>
> Many generations of Intel graphics hardware (both old and new) are affected.
> A check of Bugzilla, both Fedora and Xorg since the fall shows it's not a pretty
> picture for any Linux distributions with current X on Intel.
>
> It seems strange (and sad) that so soon into the life of a release major
> regressions can happen... followed by a deafening science. There seems to be
> very little urgency (or developer time/focus) on fixing this in F10. Rawhide
> may be important... but only if existing releases can actually be used in real life.
FWIW:
Not sure if this bug I reported is related:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473101
Personally, I'm not specifically interested in running Fedora on that
HW (I only check every Fedora release of the problem is still there ;-)),
but I *am* interested in running RHEL6 on it (like I use RHEL4 and
RHEL5 on it now), so I'm pretty scared about the future...
And this maybe is an "old" chipset, in some people's opinion, but it
is HW that is sold *today*. Specific HW like this POS HW or industrial
stuff does often use older chipsets.
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