Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHate Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHate?atomcommentsDWiki2009-04-06T05:16:51ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHate.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHatetag:CSpace:blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHate:d033858c947c1fa27c5474bbd7d51bb56bc9ee61Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I've had the chance to do systematic tests, and as a result of them I
don't think that the video card is part of the issue. <a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/HardwareMystery">HardwareMystery</a>
summarizes the results.</p>
<p>I think that modern Linux distributions may be starting to sort of
require video card updates; my impression is that a lot of the latest
graphics stuff is only being added to the drivers for relatively current
hardware for various reasons. At the extreme, updates in X server APIs
may obsolete drivers for old hardware simply because there's no one
around that's interested in updating the drivers.</p>
</div>2009-04-06T05:16:51ZFrom 65.30.71.189 on /blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHatetag:CSpace:blog/linux/Fedora10UnreliabilityHate:b826214c56b9fb32374fb5d5b2a6518b4512099aFrom 65.30.71.189<div class="wikitext"><p>Sounds to me like Fedora 10 has different video or BIOS timings affecting it (i.e. the ones in the kernel or X11 module affected the chipset and flipped some bits.) What does memtest (memchk? whatever!) produce except clean results w/o the X11 module?</p>
<p>Put a less testy way, isn't this just the needy beginning of Fedora demanding periodic videocard changes like the other OS? Only, of course you can stick a $5 Matrox 400 in there rather than the next Gl_C-is-my-new-CPU $200-500 videocard.</p>
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