When will Fedora work again?

[Deependra Singh Shekhawat]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Leon Stringer <leon.stringer at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a bit of a whiny post but at its heart is a serious point.
>
> F10 didn't work on my hardware. It looks like F11 won't either. In fact F9
> only worked when I turned RHGB off.
>
> This is due to a problem with X and support for my (fairly standard) video
> hardware (Intel D845GERG2 on-board controller,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470371).


Intel 845 sounds very oldish chipset. Must be upgraded to support latest
distributions.
Or use RHEL/Centos

>
>
> My question is, what now?
>
>  - Wait until it gets fixed? If so please tell me when this might happen so
> I can try out some different distros and come back at the appropriate time.
>
>  - Update my hardware? Are we saying this hardware isn't supported and this
> is an acceptable way to deprecate it?
>
>  - Work in text mode? Come on, it's 2009.
>
>  - Fix it myself? This might be a bit beyond me.
>
> These are the options as I see them. I understand that Fedora pushes
> leading edge development but for me this Just Doesn't Work (TM). And would
> reflect badly for any new users trying this.
>
> If there's a better way to handle this, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leon...
>
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