On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 October 2013 18:31, mark <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > > On 10/26/13 13:16, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> > > >> I could be wrong, but I am inclined to be believe these situations seem > to > >> occur after kernel updates. > >> > > Well, I just joined this list a few days ago, and will be leaving. I'd > > joined, because we have three folks at work on fedora, and one, I'd > updated > > Mon? Tues? and rebooted... and that was all she wrote. No X, at all. > After > > fighting for a day and a half, with his ATI FirePro (xinit would open a > > window, with no text/font at all, a black screen otherwise), we gave up > on > > that, and replaced it with an older NVidia card from '04, and after > trying a > > number of different drivers, none of which worked, I finally got the 304 > > legacy one, and *that* was broken - I had to run depmod myself, manually, > > because until I did, modprobe couldn't find it - and the absolute best I > > could do was start it from init 3 with startx, and *that* came up... but > > runlevel 5 refused anything but a black screen. > > > > So he needed a Linux box, and it took me 1.25 hrs to pxeboot him to a > CentOS > > 6, which came up *perfectly*, no video issues at all. After three days of > > fighting bleeding edge fc19. > > > > *shrug* > > > > See y'all around. > > Sorry to hear that, I don't think it's the general experience (I've > tended to find hardware support is good these days). FWIW I'd say > CentOS is a better bet for an office environment anyway if someone > just needs a box, less frequent churn. Feel free to come back if you > ever do find yourself fighting with a Fedora system again. > > If you're still here, here's my 2 cents: It takes a little while for one with the right experience / knowledge to get to your questions. There are a phenomenally fantastic group of people working on Fedora; they /we just need time to get to your questions. Any number of reasons could keep one from getting to your questions: family, vacations, work... Give us time?
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