Fedora Moblin remix

Josephine Tannhäuser josephine.tannhauser at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 6 07:20:38 UTC 2009


Hi all,

Moblin is afaik Intel processors only. Would this work because of the
fedora fundament on other processors like a via with 733mhz, too?

2009/11/6, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Guido Grazioli
> <guido.grazioli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/11/5 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> For those interested there's a new test LiveCD of Fedora Moblin remix
>>> [1] for those that are interesting in playing. It would be nice to
>>> have some feedback on good or bad issues with it. There's been almost
>>> 1300 downloads since I announced the last one but I've had no feedback
>>> what so ever and while I'd like to assume that's because its perfect I
>>> doubt that is the case.
>>>
>>
>> * I booted it for the first time some minutes ago on an Asus eeepc 900
>> (no atom, just a celeron). I actually never installed "vanilla" moblin
>> because in their site atom is a requirement.
>>
>> * Boot is somewhat slow but it could depend on my crappy usb key, or
>> because netbooks are crap themselves; after
>> gdm login, the graphics go unexpectedly *FAST* and *SMOOTH* !
>
> Cool, I need to look closer at the boot to see what can improved. I'm
> been too busy for my own good of late so haven't had a chance to look
> closely at this bit.
>
>> * Just before graphical boot screen, for some seconds i can see:
>> --
>> render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
>> page table error
>>  PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
>> [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x0000010, masking
>> render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
>> page table error
>>  PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
>> --
>> however, everything seems to run just right after that.
>
> Is it recorded in dmesg. It might be worth reporting a bug with all
> the details.
>
>> * Where's wifi configuration? isn't there a graphical tool
>> to configure it? asking my gf to get it up on a shell is a no-no.
>
> It should be in the top right corner of the top panel. Just to the
> left of the volume control. From memory the eeePC 900 has an atheros
> card so it should work OK.
>
>> * I mounted a touchscreen in my eeepc, and moblin gui looks
>> much more friendly to that interface. However i couldnt install
>> the manufacturer software (eGalax), because i think
>> an autoloaded module interferes with it (generic-usb?).
>> On F11 nothing get autoloaded and touchscreen works fine.
>> I need some more testing to figure this out.
>
> Do they have an open driver? Maybe its supported in F-12 and I just
> need to make sure the right package is included to support it.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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