On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 05:12:19PM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
On 06/15/2015 04:19 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
>Hi Ryan,
>
>Looks good to me :)
>Regards,
>Sumit Bhardwaj
>On Monday 15 June 2015 11:37 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>>On 06/15/2015 03:00 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
>>>Hi Ryan,
>>>
>>>Thanks for the great suggestions. The pleasure is all mine, Fedora has
>>>brought so many positive changes in my world of computing, If I can do
>>>anything for the project, it's an honor and a privilege.
>>>
>>>I have tried to incorporate your suggestions in the article and
>>>resubmitted it for review. Please have a look and let me know if any
>>>further refinement would be good.
>>>
>>>Thanks again.
>>>Regards,
>>>Sumit Bhardwaj
>>>On Monday 15 June 2015 09:14 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>>>>Hi Sumit!
>>>>
>>>>First up, thanks for submitting your first post to the Fedora
>>>>Magazine. I have done a quick review of your post, and here are a
>>>>few ideas / suggestions from me. (other editors, feel free to pitch
>>>>in ideas too)
>>>>
>>>>First up, i'd probably be a bit more direct and informative with the
>>>>title, instead of "Fedora 22 Intel Graphics Woes : Here's some
>>>>help"
>>>>maybe something like "Solution for graphics issues on some Intel
>>>>graphics chipsets in Fedora 22" (just a suggestion, feel free to
>>>>change and or edit too :) )
>>>>
>>>>Secondly, i'd probably remove the majority of the first paragraph
>>>>and lead with the issue itself (your third paragraph) -- most people
>>>>get to the magazine via third party links, so starting with the info
>>>>they came for always works well. I'm thinking something like:
>>>>"""
>>>>Fedora 22 was [link to release annonce on fedora mag]released
>>>>recently[/link], and if you are using a Pre-Sandybridge era
>>>>Intel-based graphics chipset (For example, Intel 4 series
>>>>motherboards with G41 chipset and GMA X4500 graphics), chances are
>>>>that you might be facing graphics issues like shown in below
>>>>screenshot on Fedora 22.
>>>>[screenshot]
>>>>"""
>>>>
>>>>Then after the screenshot, have your brief description of the
>>>>problem, covering the points that fedora switched to a new accel
>>>>method that doesnt work so well with older chipsets.
>>>>
>>>>Then put the solution. I found the bug for this issue
>>>>(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226743) which might be
>>>>worth mentioning. And there updated kernels (kernel-4.0.5-300.fc22
>>>>and kernel-4.0.5-200.fc21) that fix this issue is already in
>>>>updates-testing, so it is probably a better solution to recommend
>>>>that people install the new package with the fix from updates
>>>>testing, or wait for the package to hit the proper repos (rather
>>>>than editing a config file that they may forget about and cause them
>>>>issues in the future.)
>>>>
>>>>cheers,
>>>>ryanlerch
>>>>
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>>Just did a quick edit, and added a quick howto on getting the packages
>>from updates-testing (in case the reader doesnt know how to), and added
>>some emphasis on the note that the workaround is a temp solution.
>>
>>Does that look ok to you? feel free to revert if you don't agree :)
>>
>>cheers,
>>ryanlerch
>
Looks good!
Can one of the other editors have a quick sanity check of the post this
morning (Monday morning USA time), and publish if it is ok sometime this
morning?
I made a few more tweaks and will publish it.
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