F18-TC3: drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware

2012-12-22 Thread mwesten
I happen to have a monitor which doesn't support EDID and needs this, so I gave it a try on F18-TC3 as it should be enabled now. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857511 Dave Jones 2012-09-14 13:30:49 EDT committed to f18/master Unfortunately, I'm not having any luck with it. [

Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

2012-11-20 Thread mwesten
On 11/20/2012 06:45 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: The standard ways of getting rid of the nouveau driver (up to Fed 17) do not seem to work anymore in Fed 18: add 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (and/or add 'blacklist nouveau' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.c

F17 Gallium 0.4 on NV34 and Mesa 8.1-devel

2012-06-19 Thread mwesten
With NV3x adapters experiencing 3D screen corruption in F16/F17, and the abysmal gnome-shell performance of nvidia's 173.14.35 driver, I attempted a yum upgrade to rawhide for a look at Mesa-8.1, which I understand has a new driver. Unfortunately, that installation won't start up. So, I've b

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-14 Thread mwesten
On 04/14/2012 04:29 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: So I tried again. I use grub's setup to put the bootloader on sdb and point it at sdb1. I updated BIOS settings to use sdb. Again anaconda labeled sdb partitons storage and sda partitions install. It had sda marked for the bootloader. It offered me

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-13 Thread mwesten
On 04/12/2012 10:51 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, mwesten wrote: On 04/12/2012 07:12 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: No selinux message, but Still no go. I took some pictures of the "Details" message, but the three are >60KB a piece after processing, >2MB befor

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-12 Thread mwesten
On 04/12/2012 07:12 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: No selinux message, but Still no go. I took some pictures of the "Details" message, but the three are >60KB a piece after processing, >2MB before. Should I send them to the list? I put them on http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/new16-[123].pn

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-12 Thread mwesten
On 04/12/2012 11:52 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, mwesten wrote: On 04/11/2012 08:52 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: Here is the final grub stanza: title Install Fedora16 from iso 11 15:34 root (hd0,2) kernel /isolinux16/vmlinuz

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-11 Thread mwesten
On 04/11/2012 08:52 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: Here is the final grub stanza: title Install Fedora16 from iso 11 15:34 root (hd0,2) kernel /isolinux16/vmlinuz repo=hd:LABEL=/home1:/iso16 acpi=off processor.nocst=1 maxcpus=1 selinux=0 initrd /isolinu

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-04-10 Thread mwesten
On 04/10/2012 01:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > I'm pretty sure there must be a less strange and rarely-used way of > doing it that would be usa

Re: F17 vs. Pentium 4

2012-03-29 Thread mwesten
On 03/29/2012 11:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:34 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Felix Miata wrote: If you want NX for your existing motherboard you'd probably have to find a Prescott 478, which may never have existed, and even if it does, might no

Re: curious: yum-presto prevents from updating in F17 by yum?

2012-03-29 Thread mwesten
On 03/29/2012 12:21 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, somebody has seen this too: "yum update" fails: --- snip - Traceback (most recent call last): File "/bin/yum", line 29, in yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) Fil

Re: A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

2012-03-01 Thread mwesten
On 03/01/2012 04:31 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 13:01 -0500, mwesten wrote: I set this up on the Alpha release and the results are below. I'm assuming there's something wrong with that top entry, but I don't know how to fix it. Events: 50K cycles 55.9

Re: A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

2012-03-01 Thread mwesten
On 02/23/2012 09:54 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: In the non-steady-state, though, the current implementation is known to be incredibly memcpy-heavy. Fixes coming soon, beta should be much better I hope. If you want to collect some data about where CPU time is being spent, 'perf record' against the

Re: A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

2012-02-23 Thread mwesten
On 02/23/2012 09:54 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 08:44 -0500, mwesten wrote: Fedora-17-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop.iso (RC2) on USB 2.13GHz AthlonXP 2600+ / RV200 (Radeon 7500) / 1280x1024 Fallback mode is fine, but once the shell starts, it's a battle just to get System Mo

Re: A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

2012-02-23 Thread mwesten
On 02/23/2012 02:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:54 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: For comparison: 3,2GHz Pentium 4 (HT Disabled) / Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV370 / 1680x1050 Fine. System Monitor CPU at 19%. That's still way higher than I'd like, but it's at least an r300g bug

Re: A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

2012-02-23 Thread mwesten
On 02/22/2012 02:42 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: I am afraid that I am not qualified to sensibly discuss underlying mechanisms. I can only report what I see. In this thread mwes...@verizon.net wrote "the processor gets pegged at 100% continuously and it's not usable". I am not sure what was t

Re: A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

2012-02-21 Thread mwesten
On 02/21/2012 05:14 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: At https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering I am reading "The standard Gnome 3 experience is now available on all hardware". Is this a plan, a wish or this is supposed

Re: GNOME shell broken after suspend and resume for driver r300_dri

2011-05-15 Thread mwesten
On 05/05/2011 03:42 AM, Christoph Frieben wrote: > Can anybody report success for the suspend and resume cycle triggered > from within the GNOME shell when the graphics card is based on some > R300/R400 variant? In my case, the shell is still broken after resume. > The video device is some ATI Rade

Gnome shell corruption

2011-04-09 Thread mwesten
>> I happen to have an RV200, which I tried with F15BetaRC1, and while >> it was generally unusable for many reasons, the fonts were not corrupted >> as they are with RV250/280. So, I think that may support the idea of >> there just being a bug in the R200 implementation. >Yes, this was at time w

Re: Re: Gnome shell corruption

2011-04-09 Thread mwesten
Apr 8, 2011 12:03:05 PM, test@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: >The reason this is a fallacy is that you haven't established that the >level of OpenGL support is the *only* difference between the >configurations in question, and it certainly isn't. There are all sorts >of others. As Ajax says, it's

Re: No shutdown/restart/standby after hibernate

2010-10-26 Thread mwesten
On 10/26/2010 10:01 AM, James Laska wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 21:37 -0400, mwesten wrote: > >> On 10/25/2010 08:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 20:39 -0400, mwesten wrote: >>> >>> >>>>

Re: No shutdown/restart/standby after hibernate

2010-10-25 Thread mwesten
On 10/25/2010 08:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 20:39 -0400, mwesten wrote: > >>>> Had another thought about this. There's a forum poster reporting similar >>>> issue: >>>> >>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/show

Re: No shutdown/restart/standby after hibernate

2010-10-25 Thread mwesten
/ > />/ > Had another thought about this. There's a forum poster reporting similar />/ > issue: />/ > />/ > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=253221 />/ > />/ > (is that you, Steven?) and it made me think of this bug jlaska reported: />/ />/ Nah - not me... Interestingly