[driverloader] Driverloader works well but.....

[Jonathan Baron]

On 11/15/04 08:39, John Pedersen wrote:
>Thanks Jonathan, I was figuring that I'd have to reinstall FC2 but your
>suggestion sounds better.
>
>Were you able to do an upgrade or did you do a clean install of FC3?

Upgrade. (But make sure to do
yum update
very soon.)

>John
>
>Jonathan Baron wrote:
>
>>On 11/14/04 10:03, John Pedersen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi folks,
>>>So everything at the driverloader end works fine.... but I'm getting
>>>some real flakiness at boot up that I can only attribute to the new
>>>kernel.  Specifically, the windows manager (generally gnome) will hang
>>>trying to initiate services.  The fedora 2 splash will come up but the
>>>graphical bar associated with service start up doesn't appear and the
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I am assuming you mean the Gnome panel, but I'm not sure.
>>
>>
>>
>>>system stays in that state.  This behavior is inconsistent and generally
>>>doing ctrl-alt-backspace and restarting the x server will usually solve
>>>the problem.  Less often, the system will hang on shutdown.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I was having problems like this with FC2 on a desktop computer
>>that did not have wireless at all.  I fixed it by updating Gnome
>>to the development version.  Then I updated to FC3 and everything
>>got better still.  _Much_ better on my laptop, which also had
>>slow booting problems possibly associated with Driverloader.
>>
>>The upgrade to FC3 was the smoothest I've ever done (on 3
>>computers so far - the 4th runs mailman, which will require
>>re-configuration, so I'm waiting until I have some time).
>>Everything just worked.  And it worked better and faster - e.g.,
>>Gnome cut and paste finally does what it should do.  I had to
>>re-size my terminal windows, but that was all.  I recommend an
>>upgrade.
>>
>>I have not been using the Linuxant kernels for a while since I've
>>found that the "workaround=stack" thing seems to prevent crashes,
>>but I have a different wireless from yours.
>>
>>I doubt the problem is in the kernel.  By the time Xorg starts
>>up, the kernel is pretty much finished its part of the boot
>>process.
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>



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