Feeling real grumpy !

[William Case]

Hi;

I have a friend staying with me for a couple of weeks.  He is moving
here from another city and waiting for his new house purchase to close
and for his furniture with his computer to arrive.  A perfect captive
audience to sell Linux and Fedora to.

My Fedora Core 6 i386 doesn't work.

"Np problem" says I to my friend,  "I am on one of the most friendly and
helpful mailing lists in the world.  You won't find anything like it for
help on Windows."

I send off a post describing my problem.  No reply.
I try to show him the new compiz.  It doesn't work.
I send a post describing my problem. No reply
I dig around and find that my video card using r128 driver doesn't work.
I send a post asking when it might be fixed.  No reply.
I go to my backed up FC5 /etc/X11/xorg.conf and copy some of the
elements to my FC6 xorg.conf.  I am not sure this will work, so I send a
post to this list asking if I will break anything.  No reply.
I search Red Hat bugzilla for Fedora. I find a bug that is similar to
mine and add appropriate comments.  No reply
I run into other problems that may be window manager related.  I send
off a post.  No reply.

"Well" I say to my friend "in the meantime, lets get some other things
working."  I try to set up Gnomeradio. It doesn't work. I send a post to
the Gnome mailing list, wait a few days, then post the same problem to
the Fedora mailing list. No reply.

Sessions manager doesn't work.  Several other applications are wonky.  I
send off a list of wonky applications.  No reply.

This morning my friend says that he is going out to look for a new Mac
computer.

No reply from me.  I have googled and searched and found all kinds of
stories and comments about the failure/disagreement over AIGLX on r128
type video cards.  Most of the comments seem outdated.

Can someone tell me:

Is this being fixed?
Is there a workaround?
Do I need a new video card?
Have I in someway in the past offended everybody on this list?
If I prepare a list of things-no-longer-working correctly, can someone
tell which ones are video card related?

I understand this is an all volunteer list.  I have tried to give advice
when I could.  I understand that FC6 is cutting edge and could have
bugs. I have been through the growing pains for FC3, FC4 and FC5.
Luckily, I have some work that has to be done I M$ Excel for today.  But
I would like to show my friend more than half a Linux system.

-- 
Regards Bill