Rawhide - first experience

[Kjartan Maraas]

ti., 22.06.2010 kl. 07.40 -0700, skrev Adam Williamson:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 16:08 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I updated from F13 to rawhide today and everything went smooth when I
> > skipped packages with broken deps. Ended up with some 1500 packages
> > being updated :-)
> > 
> > When I booted and logged in I noticed the following:
> > 
> > - mouse movement is really slow. The pointer moves a centimeter or two
> > every time I drag my finger across the mousepad. Tried changing the
> > settings, but nothing seems to help there. Not kernel related as it is
> > the same when I boot the f13 kernel
> 
> http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-synaptics-acceleration-mechanism.html
> 
> > - the battery icon looks strange - very thin. Probably something to do
> > with the symbolic icon support?
> 
> Dunno.
> 
Richard answered this, but shouldn't gnome-icon-theme-symbolic have been
pulled in by whatever package that needs it?

> > - Broadcom 4322 wireless doesn't work because of a missing kmod package
> > from rpmfusion?
> 
> If you run Rawhide you *really* need to install the akmod package.
> Fusion don't always rebuild kmods for every Rawhide kernel build, and
> even when they do, they'll always be a day or two behind, which is quite
> a while in the fast-paced world of Rawhide.
> 
Yeah, no problem. Just wanted to put it out there.

> > - firefox crashes on startup
> 
> Dunno. Given the below, try it without Java? Do it from a console and
> see what error you get?
> 

Filed a bug with the details:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606789

> > - epiphany crashes on some pages (seems related to java-1.6.0-openjdk
> > not having been built for f14?
> 
> Dunno, but see above. Do you *need* Java?

Yeah, I need Java for many of the things I use daily. Filed a bug with
information on the crash:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606792

Cheers
Kjartan