Xfce spin Beta RC3 validation pass

Ron Leach ronleach at tesco.net
Tue Sep 28 14:02:39 UTC 2010


Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Ron wrote,
>> Back to F14 beta RC3, the topic of your original post, you are
>> experiencing very slow operations with F14. Adam's post suggests that
>> F14 needs a new driver for your chipset (he says 'soon for F14'). My own
>> feeling is that until a GMA500-specific driver is employed, in view of
>> the historic problems described in Adam's blog Xorg might be a bit
>> unstable with that chipset.
> 
> 
> I don't know about that but I don't understand why F14 can't behave at 
> least as well as F13 with the 1024x768 res.
> 

That's a fair point.  I wonder if F14 contains a different (newer) 
version of 'Xorg', maybe.  Anyway, Adam said he'd update the GMA500 
driver to F14 - he'll have to test it anyway, and so it should be both 
available, and loadable.

regards, Ron


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