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

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 05:12:19PM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>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?

I made a few more tweaks and will publish it.

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