Fedora 12 beta issues

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 28/10/09 12:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:56 -0600, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>
>> 2. Dailymotion videos are terribly slow -- look like a slideshow (2fps?)
>> Whole system slows down to a crawl when playing video (HTML5 tag, not 
>> flash), even typing in terminal feels like '97 over ssh.
>>
>>
>> top - 08:52:18 up  9:29,  4 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.20, 0.24
>> Tasks: 188 total,   2 running, 186 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu0  : 55.3%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 43.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
>> 0.0%st
>> Cpu1  :  2.7%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
>> 0.0%st
>> Cpu2  : 33.0%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 66.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
>> 0.0%st
>> Cpu3  : 11.5%us,  1.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 87.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
>> 0.0%st
>> Mem:   8263400k total,  3142540k used,  5120860k free,   300608k buffers
>> Swap:  8409988k total,        0k used,  8409988k free,  2194328k cached
>>
>>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>   1519 root      20   0  126m  63m 6012 R 99.4  0.8  10:02.00 Xorg
>>   1981 thufor    20   0  607m 127m  24m S  6.0  1.6   1:40.89 firefox
>>   2008 thufor     9 -11  184m 5024 3996 S  0.7  0.1   0:02.80 pulseaudio
>>   1884 thufor    20   0  116m  23m  14m S  0.3  0.3   0:04.33 konsole
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. Anaconda/First boot -- sees the screen size as if it was total of two 
>> displays but uses only one of them (b -- see hardware above), hence the 
>> some information and buttons are invisible (displayed off screen). I can 
>> provide photos of what it looks like.
>>
>>
>> 4. KDE: Display settings: change display resolution works incorrectly -- 
>> can´t move screen position vs. the other screen. I changed screen (a) 
>> from 1280x1024 -> 1600x1200 and got screen overlap -- whatever is 
>> displayed in the middle, is showing up "partial clone" on both screens.
>>
>>
>> 5. KDE: Colors are all over the place -- parts of UI change colors as 
>> they please: to purple, green, blue, black, etc. without reason. Random 
>> "destruction" patterns show up on UI elements.
>
> For all of the above, can you try a) updating to kernel 96 or 97 from
> Rawhide or Koji, and b) booting with nomodeset parameter, and see how
> those affect them?
kernel-PAE-2.6.31.5-104.fc12.i686.rpm did not really help much.
nomodeset helps a lot with colour artifacts in KDE (all gone, 5. is shot 
down), performance is great (better than without nomodeset), also when 
playing Dailymotion videos (2. shot as well).
I haven't yet tested Anaconda issue (3.).
KDE Display settings is simply missing functionality (can't move screen 
positions, so 4. is still an issue).

>> 8. glxgears works but with horizontal lines of random rubbish. I havent 
>> tried mesa-dri-drivers-experimental yet...
>
> Without mesa-dri-drivers-experimental you're not getting any hardware
> 3D. But it's not expected to work great on r700 yet anyway.
>

The mesa-dri-drivers-experimental makes 3D work quite well!

- glxgears -- no more artifacts
- desktop effects in KWin work (most of them, some can't be enabled) but 
with nomodeset desktop effects don't work anymore
- OpenGL screensavers work without artifacts

>> 9. Pulseaudio generally works -- I'm happy that digital optical out 
>> works! Pavucontrol (not installed by default?) crashes when I choose 
>> "Pulseaudio server" in KDE multimedia settings.
>
> Don't know about KDE, but pavucontrol is no longer installed by default
> because gnome-volume-control should cover what's needed. KDE still
> doesn't have a real great PA mixer AFAIK.
I installed pavucontrol and so far it does the job :-)

I found two other issues.


10. Ethernet network interface (cable) doesn't get up during boot even 
though it's configured as not managed by NM. I have to bring it up manually.
    This network interface doesn't start on boot:

# 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:10:4B:7A:65:73
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
NM_CONTROLLED=no
PEERDNS=yes



11. Cheese uses 150% CPU when recording a movie from webcam! Recorded 
video is choppy, like 1-2 fps... Monitoring camera view works smoothly, 
it only happens when recording.

top - 21:28:06 up 38 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.79, 0.36, 0.30
Tasks: 195 total,  1 running, 194 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie
Cpu0  : 15.7%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 84.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Cpu1  : 11.2%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 88.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  
0.0%st
Cpu2  : 24.5%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 75.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Cpu3  : 75.2%us, 24.1%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:  8263400k total,  1685968k used,  6577432k free,    78604k buffers
Swap:  8409988k total,        0k used,  8409988k free,  1021984k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
3845 thufor    20  0  532m  37m  24m S 150.9  0.5  2:08.35 cheese
1579 root      20  0  765m 170m 9256 S  0.7  2.1  4:53.86 Xorg


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