When will Fedora work again?

[Bob Arendt]

Leon Stringer wrote:
> Robert Arendt wrote:
>> Leon Stringer wrote:
>>> Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>>>> Leon Stringer wrote:
>>>>> F10 didn't work on my hardware. It looks like F11 won't either. In fact
>>>>> F9 only worked when I turned RHGB off.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is, what now?
>>>>>
>>>> I had a quick look at the bugzilla,
>>>> it was initially reported against F10(rawhide).
>>>> Are you still using Rawhide, or did you stick with F10?
>>> No, in fact I stuck with F9 since F10 never worked. I've seen some posts
>>> from people with similar hardware getting the same issue on F11
>>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484276). So I haven't
>>> retested but will if you think there's any progress on this...
>>>
>> No, the issue still exists as of last weekend.  I've got the same
>> intel chipset and have been reporting since F10-alpha here:
>>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469292
>> I'm updating against rawhide now, and I'll give it another try tonight.
>>
> 
> Doesn't sound encouraging but I'd be interested in your results.
> 
Still broken with tonight's rawhide (no cursor, slow, distorted
glxgears, thinks there's 4G videoram, "possible circular locking
dependency detected" dump in /var/log/messages).  Today's config:

kernel-2.6.29-0.207.rc7.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.0-9.fc11.i586
package xorg-x11-drv-i810 is not installed
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.0.99.4-1.fc11.i586
libdrm-2.4.5-0.fc11.i586
mesa-libGL-7.3-10.fc11.i586
mesa-libGLU-7.3-10.fc11.i586
mesa-dri-drivers-7.3-10.fc11.i586

The Xserver comes up, but 2D performance is extremely slow.  I use
the putimage100 test from x11perf as a quick benchmark of 2D performance
(x11perf -putimage100) and glxgears for 3D.  The glxgears image is very
distorted (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=333612), but
this week the throughput nears F9 performance:

                      F9         Rawhide
   2D putimage100    1300/sec    232/sec
   3D glxgears        257 fps    212 fps

More details logged at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469292#c55

Cheers?
-Bob Arendt