Fedora 22 Workstation Beta Release Candidate 1

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

Downloaded Workstation Beta Release Candidate 1. Booted on ASUS X550ZE which hit
this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209347

prompting to manually start the Gnome X Session as a temporarily workaround. The
issue seems affecting AMD based system. Hopefully the fix will come on the final
release should the issue be not resolved on time for the beta release. In that
case, the risk will trigger a possible problem for AMD system users who still
represent a fair amount of percentage.

After manually starting the session, here is some report:

Touchpad as reported on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208625

which is detected as Elantech

$ dmesg | grep elantech
[    3.045658] psmouse serio4: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with
firmware version 0x381f17)
[    3.058693] psmouse serio4: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result
0x10, 0x14, 0x0e.
[liveuser at localhost ~]$ xinput | grep -i touchpad
⎜   ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad                	id=15	[slave  pointer
 (2)]

but unable to use due to conflict. Settings -> Mouse & Touchpad shows that
touchpad is on along will possible functionality but no cursor motion, nor tap.
Similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110011
with workaround. It would be nice to address that problem as the touchpad from
the laptop seems newer. It seems a kernel bug which needs to update its
Elantech support.



The hotkey case is odd as seen on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206862

The system recognizes it but somehow got conflicted with another devices. I
don't know how the process exactly work but the log show there problem of
assigning file for that device.


Some applications like Libre Office will crash X sesion meaning the bug is
possibly related to the driver (xorg-x11-drv-ati). On my installed Fedora 22,
these applications will run fine on Wayland.

Speaking of Gnome on Wayland, multimedia application like Cheese and Totem and
also Gnome-battery-bench will segment fault when trying to start it. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206809
Known issues on that session are Drag and Drop and the inability to copy and
paste from Wayland application (Gedit) to XWayland application (Firefox).

On both sessions, there is a lag of plugins in and out the laptop power outlet.
Without a proper battery power management and optimization, this laptop lasts
about two hours.

Those are covering the status of Workstation 22 Beta Release Candidate 1.

Luya
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