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

[Ryan Lerch]

On 06/15/2015 04:19 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Looks good to me :)
> Regards,
> Sumit Bhardwaj
> On Monday 15 June 2015 11:37 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>> 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)
>>>>
>>>> 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.)
>>>>
>>>> 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
>
Looks good!

Can one of the other editors have a quick sanity check of the post this 
morning (Monday morning USA time), and publish if it is ok sometime this 
morning?

cheers,
ryanlerch
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