persev
21st September 2007, 05:54 PM
After finding out that one can install Synaptic in Fedora I decided to give it another go. Install seemed to go smoothly, I chose to leave my /home partition unchanged but upon reboot and initial set up it seemed that all my data was overwritten but upon further inspection I discovered that Fedora chose not to use my /home partition and instead set up a home partition in the root partition, actually I can even find my 69gig home partition! Perhaps it is a problem with the original existing partition using the Reiser file system, I don't know as I am just a linux user and not a coder. There were no warnings about file system types and if that is the issue then there should be in the install.
Next problem I discovered was that there are no wireless tools in the default "Office and Productivity" install, what the fudge!? My pcmcia wireless card uses an Atheros chip set which shouldn't be a problem, even Ubuntu includes some types of gui wireless tools and even gives a popup offering to install "Restricted drivers". Could it be that Fedora no longer supports PCMCIA? The "Network" only lists eth0 the ethernet device.
More issues, Fedora didn't detect the LCD for this Thinkpad T-23 made in 2000, perhaps it's to new and I should try to find some older hardware to test on. So I find the display tool and set up the screen properly, LCD instead of CRT and 1024x768 instead of 800x600, easy enough but this should have been detected and set up properly on install as Fedora7 is the only distro out of about a hundred I have tested that has failed at this.
Now for my final test, I open a terminal and type glxgears...damn no direct rendering for the Savage video! Well to be fair Fedora is not the only recent distro to have problems with Savage video cards, this appears to be an issue with Xorg since the 7.1.2 release. I no a fix for it under Debian based distros but I'm not sure it will work for Fedora, and I don't plan on finding out because of the other issues.
I do like the fact that SE is installed by default though.
Maybe Fedora8 will be better.
Next problem I discovered was that there are no wireless tools in the default "Office and Productivity" install, what the fudge!? My pcmcia wireless card uses an Atheros chip set which shouldn't be a problem, even Ubuntu includes some types of gui wireless tools and even gives a popup offering to install "Restricted drivers". Could it be that Fedora no longer supports PCMCIA? The "Network" only lists eth0 the ethernet device.
More issues, Fedora didn't detect the LCD for this Thinkpad T-23 made in 2000, perhaps it's to new and I should try to find some older hardware to test on. So I find the display tool and set up the screen properly, LCD instead of CRT and 1024x768 instead of 800x600, easy enough but this should have been detected and set up properly on install as Fedora7 is the only distro out of about a hundred I have tested that has failed at this.
Now for my final test, I open a terminal and type glxgears...damn no direct rendering for the Savage video! Well to be fair Fedora is not the only recent distro to have problems with Savage video cards, this appears to be an issue with Xorg since the 7.1.2 release. I no a fix for it under Debian based distros but I'm not sure it will work for Fedora, and I don't plan on finding out because of the other issues.
I do like the fact that SE is installed by default though.
Maybe Fedora8 will be better.
