Pending Post Review: Fedora 22 Intel Graphics Woes : Here's some help

[Ryan Lerch]

On 06/15/2015 03:00 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Thanks for the great suggestions. The pleasure is all mine, Fedora has 
> brought so many positive changes in my world of computing, If I can do 
> anything for the project, it's an honor and a privilege.
>
> I have tried to incorporate your suggestions in the article and 
> resubmitted it for review. Please have a look and let me know if any 
> further refinement would be good.
>
> Thanks again.
> Regards,
> Sumit Bhardwaj
> On Monday 15 June 2015 09:14 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>> Hi Sumit!
>>
>> First up, thanks for submitting your first post to the Fedora 
>> Magazine. I have done a quick review of your post, and here are a few 
>> ideas / suggestions from me. (other editors, feel free to pitch in 
>> ideas too)
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>> First up, i'd probably be a bit more direct and informative with the 
>> title, instead of  "Fedora 22 Intel Graphics Woes : Here's some help"
>> maybe something like "Solution for graphics issues on some Intel 
>> graphics chipsets in Fedora 22" (just a suggestion, feel free to 
>> change and or edit too :) )
>>
>> Secondly, i'd probably remove the majority of the first paragraph and 
>> lead with the issue itself (your third paragraph) -- most people get 
>> to the magazine via third party links, so starting with the info they 
>> came for always works well. I'm thinking something like:
>> """
>> Fedora 22 was [link to release annonce on fedora mag]released 
>> recently[/link], and if you are using a Pre-Sandybridge era 
>> Intel-based graphics chipset (For example, Intel 4 series 
>> motherboards with G41 chipset and GMA X4500 graphics), chances are 
>> that you might be facing graphics issues like shown in below 
>> screenshot on Fedora 22.
>> [screenshot]
>> """
>>
>> Then after the screenshot, have your brief description of the 
>> problem, covering the points that fedora switched to a new accel 
>> method that doesnt work so well with older chipsets.
>>
>> Then put the solution. I found the bug for this issue 
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226743) which might be 
>> worth mentioning. And there updated kernels (kernel-4.0.5-300.fc22 
>> and kernel-4.0.5-200.fc21) that fix this issue is already in 
>> updates-testing, so it is probably a better solution to recommend 
>> that people install the new package with the fix from updates 
>> testing, or wait for the package to hit the proper repos (rather than 
>> editing a config file that they may forget about and cause them 
>> issues in the future.)
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>> cheers,
>> ryanlerch
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Just did a quick edit, and added a quick howto on getting the packages 
from updates-testing (in case the reader doesnt know how to), and added 
some emphasis on the note that the workaround is a temp solution.

Does that look ok to you? feel free to revert if you don't agree :)

cheers,
ryanlerch
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