Well, I just got my system working again, and was able to try FC6 test 2, and it seems to work (mostly) better than test 1.
The installer's X display still suffers from this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7243 but at least the minimum resolution seems to have been bumped from 640x480 to 800x600, so even with the small display, I can at least see enough to get through the install and modify xorg.conf. I still have to explicitly tell the radeon driver that the 2nd monitor is type NONE in order to be able to use the primary fully.
In better news, all the problems I had accessing my 2nd sata drive and the various things getting mutex errors and segfaults during boot are all gone. (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196419 for the whole sad story).
In the still busted category is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195782
I also left a yum -y update running last night and got the inevitable conflicting package problems this morning, so it didn't actually update anything :-(.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:37:50AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
but at least the minimum resolution seems to have been bumped from 640x480 to 800x600, so even with the
Ditto although I get a mode about 1280x1024 that the monitor cant handle and offered correct modes (which are ignored) by the display config tool when in X, or in text mode showered with a powernow-k8 message every second in Xen (thankfulyl not out of Xen)
I also left a yum -y update running last night and got the inevitable conflicting package problems this morning, so it didn't actually update anything :-(.
It helps to purge a lot of parallel .i386 stuff you may have and then do chunks separately as a script using yum -y (-y to say "yes yes yes" to all questions). That way you still get a new evolution and a new gnome but not a new X if X fails etc