On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Niels de Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/03/2012 01:03 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> The "This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of >> audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?" release. >> >> THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE AIMED AT CORE OS/HW DEVELOPERS >> >> This is a hard floating point Franken release for development and >> testing of the hardfp on the XO 1.75. Its very incomplete and has a >> number of things that don't work. This is expected and its a release >> only really intended for people that understandard what hardfp is and >> the significance of it and wish to test and develop further for this >> fairly major feature both for upstream Fedora and the XO releases. >> >> This isn't a release that shouldn't have bug reports against it. >> >> So what are the known issues, and what works? >> >> - X works using fbdev. There's an issue with resolution. Fix this by >> removing the "Virtual" line from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xo1.75.conf >> - No accelerated X >> - Sugar and GNOME do work quite well >> - Networking seems to work OK >> - Firefox DOESN'T work. Known issue, hopefully should be fixed before long >> - Midori for GNOME, Surf for Sugar included as browsers. > > > systemd is included (as it is Fedora 15) but does not really work by > default. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704783 describes the > same problem and points to a solution: > - remove /var/run, /var/lock and /media from /etc/rwtab and reboot > > The change was made on a date after the version of initscripts that is > installed was created. There are no Fedora ARM updates yet, but maybe a new > version fixes it automatically.
I'll have a look, thanks for the heads up. >> I've been working to get this to a reasonable testing state for a >> while and finally all the bits fell into place. There's quite a bit of >> change going on in the ARM Fedora 15 world. I would suggest regular >> "yum update" to get the latest builds. I'm not expecting to do regular >> builds of this, but will happily cut more builds if people think a new >> one would be useful. > > > Unfortunately the fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo are non-functional for > Fedora 15 on ARM. Instead, I am now using the most current builds directly > from a repository on the koji infrastructure: > - http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/repos/dist-f15-build/latest/armhfp/ The entries in fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo should work just fine. They do for me on both sfp and hfp platforms. > Does it make sense to create tickets for these kind of issues? Or is this > email sufficient to help others? I wouldn't, its really a reference, I'll likely cut another build shortly with other fixes but its not aimed at any sort of official release but a stop gap until we can move to f17 snapshots. Petr _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
