Xfce spin Beta RC3 validation pass

[Ron Leach]

Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> 
> On 2010-09-22 17:58, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> People,
>>>
>>>
>>> I find it boots OK with qemu and from a USB stick and, in fact, seems to
>>> install OK to a HD but when running the resulting install, I find it is
>>> deadly slow and unusable (I am using F13 on the same machine - a Gateway
>>> LT30 netbook - with no problems).
>> Like OtherAdam, I can't reproduce; I did all that validation testing
>> from an installed copy of the live image (I installed it to a USB stick,
>> in fact, on a Dell Inspiron 6400, so it's not exactly a fast
>> environment, but it ran fine).
>>

> 
> Using top I found it is Xorg - taking up nearly 100% of CPU time . .
> 

Phil, I realise you've already entered a bug for this, but I noticed 
that your machine

http://support.gateway.com/s/notebook/2009/gateway/lt/lt30/LT30sp2.shtml

uses the Intel GMA500 chipset, with a quite modern screen geometry of 
1366 x 768.  So?

A recent post on the laptop list from another user with a GMA500

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/laptop/2010-September/000926.html

is reporting 'slow performance' with F13 as well, suspected due to the 
drivers.

I wonder whether F14 is running ok on other GMA500 machines, or 
whether the chipset is causing problems?

regards, Ron