On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:29 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
unsurprisingly, the fedora moblin remix does not play well with my laptop with the radeon xpress 200m video. i get a login dialog, but with a fairly large rectangular box plopped on top of it, at which point trying to log in as the live user just eventually brings me back to the login dialog. i can't get any further than that.
I think it's being done by the moblin project, so one of their mailing lists, I expect.
I believe the appropriate action at this point is to debug your xpress 200m. With fire, and possibly a big stick with rusty nails in it.
chances are good that's true. what's curious, however, is that *some* distros (debian, suse) work just fine with that video chip. fedora, though ... nothing but grief. go figure.
(seriously - what date remix did you try? it'll presumably be using the same X packages as every other spin/mix, so if you got one from yesterday you might have been bitten by the X server horkage, I guess.)
i downloaded it maybe three days ago:
http://fedora.roving-it.com/FedoraMoblin12-Beta2-LiveCD.iso
and the fedora moblin page itself:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin
suggests issues should be posted here or to the fedora-devel list. is there an even newer spin i can test?
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