Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
As a follow up for SL 5.1:
I have an optiplex 755/2Gb/Ati radeonpci-e / latest bios (A04)
I get a number of 'PCI: Cannot allocate resource region x'
error messages. The system is slow. X works, but I cannot get the
accelerated proprietary ATI driver to work.
Network does work out of the box. I have not tested sound.
I have seen some similar problems with centos. All in all this rig does
not seem to work with SL. The wait is for a new kernel or maybe a new bios.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100658
IMHO the underlaying problem is that the RHEL philosophy of backporting
newer kernel features to an older kernel version cannot keep up with the
current frantic pace of hardware development. Maybe fedora is the way to
go for desktops?
It might be. Fedora has newer technology; if you're developing software
to deploy to next RHEL, that makes sense.
OTOH it's higher maintenance. It will fail more often - new technology
has its risks, you need to upgrade more often to remain on supported
releases and your users will spend more time learning their new desktops.
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Cheers
John
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