new hardware, more problems

Frederic Muller fred at cm17.com
Tue Jan 24 10:36:31 UTC 2012


On 01/24/2012 06:16 PM, Greg wrote:
> On 24/01/2012 5:11 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and
>> rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. I have
>> therefore upgraded my hardware (more CPUs, more RAM) and have hit a
>> lot of new annoying to critical bugs with rawhide. Not sure what was
>> the culprit I tried F16 and experienced the same plague (missing
>> icons, ACPI making the machine hang, screensaver locks-up, etc,).
>>
>> So I'd like to know whether it's better to run F16 or rawhide/F17 to
>> report and try to address those bugs?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Fred
> did you try Disabling ACPI ?

I had to (BIOS disabling) as I couldn't let me machine go to sleep. But 
I also have quite a few other problems like missing icons on newly 
installed apps (I filled a bug for F16) or  missing icons in the 
notification area, all those which never occurred on my old hardware.

Fred


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