[Smaug] Felton LUG meeting Saturday

[Larry Cafiero]

Sorry your experience wasn't the same as mine, Peter. I have it on two
machines -- a Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop and a Dell GX150 desktop (neither
exactly state-of-the-art machines) -- and it works flawlessly on both.

Hope to see you this afternoon.

Larry Cafiero

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:

> I downloaded FC 10 and burnt a CD yesterday. My review is a bit
> negative, because:
>
> I have 2 desktop computers with a VIA CPU chip. The installer quits
> very early, complaining about an unsupported instruction. A web search
> found there are a number of CPUs that have this problem, made by AMD
> and other manufacturers, as well as VIA. (I have that list at home,
> I'm not there now).
>
> I have a Dell server and a gBox computer, which don't have this
> problem, but both freeze up while trying to identify an appropriate
> screen mode. These use the same older Samsung flat-panel display, and
> both have some kind of S3 display controller (but different models).
> Sometimes I can get a shell during the process, and substitute an
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file from an earlier distro, but this is difficult
> to do (I actually haven't tried the Dell yet with Ferora 10, since
> it's a server I don't often turn off. Once upon a time it ran Fedora
> 1). This problem is common to recent Ubuntu releases. An Ubuntu
> alternate install simplifies fixing this when actually installing, but
> this is not available (yet??) for Fedora 10.
>
> I have an Averatec 3280 laptop for which the same thing happens with
> recent Ubuntu and Fedora 10. Debian 4.0, stable or unstable, works
> fine in this regard.
>
> And I have 3 old desktop boxes with older Pentiums (II?) or AMD cpus
> of an older generation. I didn't bother trying these!
>
> Not too encouraging!
>
> - Peter Belew
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi, folks --
> >
> > Once again, it's time for us to get together one last time before the
> > holiday.
> >
> > Felton LUG will meet from 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 at the Felton Fire
> > Station, 135 Kirby Street in Felton (one block south of the traffic light
> on
> > Highway 9, turn right and it's on the corner).
> >
> > I'll have Fedora 10 Live CDs burned and ready for those who want to try
> it
> > out. Anyone else can bring whatever they like.
> >
> > Also, starting in January -- January 3rd to be exact, which is our next
> > meeting after the one in December (make a note of it!) -- we'll probably
> > start having speakers each month to start off the meeting (first hour
> maybe,
> > then discussion and the usual afterward). So if
> > anyone has any ideas, let's hear them.
> >
> > Hope you can make it Saturday.
> >
> > Larry Cafiero
> > Felton Linuxworks / HeliOS Solutions West
> > 335-7303
>
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