The Final Zone project

 While waiting for a bug fix affecting majority of 2-in-1 laptops running on GNOME Wayland session, gnome-shell-extension-screen-autorotate is now available in Fedora repository and EPEL 9 . Give a try on your device Possibly this extension will get added on the incoming Fedora Design Suite 39 as default for the owners of convertible laptops.

gpick is available in Fedora repository under version 0.2.4. The reason the package does not match upstream is due to a bug related to lua dependency . I submitted a request for bundling exception due to that circumstance. As a packager, it is the first time I stumble into crucial issue.

English Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle is recently released. Be warned that some system with Nvidia Geforce 400 series and above might encounter a nasty bug from nouveau driver crashing anaconda, the Fedora installer. Workaround is to use VESA driver for the remaining of installation. Français Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle vient de sortir. Sachez que certains syst&egrav;mes équipés des cartes seacute;ries Nvidia Geforce 400 et ultérieurs risquent de rencontrer un bogue sérieux causé par le pilote nouveau plantant l'installeur anaconda. La solution temporaire est d'utiliser le pilote VESA pour le reste d'installation.

English I like Fedora 15 beta except for one issue: networkmanager which dhcp does not want to connect at all. Bug is filed. Somehow, Live Media version is not affected. French J'adore Fedora 15 beta sauf un problem: NetworkManager duquel dhcp ne veut pas connecter du tout. Le bogue a été soumis en conséquence. Comme quoi, ce problème n'existe pas sous la version Live Media.

Two years passed with No network on x86-64 saga mainly due to skge inability to work above 4GB RAM support. With the help of kernel team, it turned out the solution was simple. # rmmod skge # modprobe skge dma_bits=32 Where 32 is the max value for 4GB address space. It might be late for people who have already replaced their Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard but the issue can be finally put to rest.

Since this summer, most of my tasks are now done on Tablet PC. I took opportunity to try Fedora 12 on my LT-20. Unfortunately, major regression occurred because the stylus is no longer recognized. It appears linuxwacom package is old and not up to date compared to upstream . I tried to use the old method to create xorg.conf. Alas, the set-up for TabletPC crashed X and I restored by removing xorg.conf. Bug report has been submitted and hopefully that will resolved for final release because TabletPC users get a bad surprise

libxml2-2.7.4-1 which is available on test-update and rawhide seems to be broken preventing Inkscape to run. Should you attempt to dowgrade that package, make sure to downgrade packagekit, setroubleshoot and system-config-printer first, otherwise temporally remove them. Bug report has been submitted and hopefully should be fixed.

Following the saga about lack of Network on Gigabyte motherboard running x86_64 with 4 GB RAM support enabled. I have contacted Gigabyte about the issue after upgrading the BIOS to F9G. Apparently, NForce3 250GB seems to be the culprit as it seems to not grasp 64bit DMA. Stay tuned about the report.

Following my post related to NetworkManager . I have found out about the workaround. If you have x86_64 system with 4GB support enabled, you should disable it in order to make NetworkManager work. I am not sure if that bug affects other distributions so, possibly the bug may be related to the x86_64 kernel. Let see if my theory can be verified.

Using a x86_64 DVD version of Fedora 9, I have installed the system and noticed an issue: the network is not active when trying to use third-party repository. For some unknown reason, the network is not using Ethernet despite manually setting the IP. I had submitted a bug report and followed suggestion: still no online access even with NetworkManager disabled. The same issues also occured on... Fedora 8. The Ethernet adapter is a integrated Marvell Yukon on the motherboard, it ran fine on Fedora 7 and i386 version of Fedora 9 using network install. Hopefully this issue will be resolved soon.