Potential blockers for FC12

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 07:52 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 15:56 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I've been struggling with a few issues related to xorg and intel
> > graphics lately and would welcome discussion wrt these being serious
> > enough to consider blockers for FC12.
> > 
> > - Suspend / resume stopped working for me recently. Works from runlevel
> > 3, but not from within Xorg
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526757
> 
> I wouldn't really consider that serious enough. suspend is always pretty
> flaky and we've never held releases for suspend problems until now.

Suspend/resume is currently working perfectly on my Eee netbook. Having
it not work perfectly in F12 would be a definite regression.

> > - Evolution has a tendency to hang after a suspend / resume cycle and
> > take the whole machine down with it when it does so
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492686
> 
> see above, but hanging the whole system is icky. If this isn't limited
> to your hardware it's worth considering.
> 
> > - Machine freezes from time to time. Possibly related to intel graphics
> > xorg driver again. Filed upstream bug here:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23969
> 
> ditto with #2, depends how hardware-dependent it is.

Since we're talking about Intel video here, I think it has to be taken
pretty seriously. There are already problems with Intel on F11 with
OpenGL apps freezing the whole X session, and Intel is supposed to be
one of the fully supported chipsets. 

poc