Pending Post Review: Fedora 22 Intel Graphics Woes

Tue Jun 16 13:20:21 UTC 2015

Thanks Ryan :) Yes, absolutely, more posts are on there way for sure!

Looks like I also earned a badge, yay! :)

Thanks.

Regards,
Sumit Bhardwaj

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> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:43:12 -0400
> From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: Pending Post Review: Fedora 22 Intel Graphics Woes :
> 	Here's some	help
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> 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.
>