[PlanetCCRMA] Sulfur: works out of the box

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 11:15 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> For helping with the testing I installed Fedora 9 in my laptop and I
> can say that everything worked pretty well too. The only downsides
> I've found are Firefox 3 being slow for scrolling and not compatible
> with the extensions I use. I installed the CCRMA kernel and it boots
> and seems to work fine but Power Manager is not started and the
> wireless led doesn't work. The Fedora 9 kernel seems to provide a nice
> power management as it is able to dim my screen light when running
> with battery power and it even dims it more when idle (Mac style).
> I'll keep testing.

Thanks for the feedback...

The most (probably) I can do at this time about the kernel is to see if
I can integrate the rt patches into the latest 2.6.24.7* package coming
from fc8. Maybe that will fix your power management issues... or not. 

I just tried to start yet again the rt merge from the latest update
kernel for fc9. The rt3 set of patches I have been using so far do not
patch cleanly and at first sight it is not obvious how to fix them. Then
I tried the rt7 patch for 2.6.24.7 and too many chunks fail (not
impossible to fix, probably, but I'll wait till somebody else does
that). 

So we'll have to collectively wait for the rt patch set to make it to
2.6.25 land...

-- Fernando


> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Ebrahim Mayat <ebmayat at mac.com> wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > The upgrade to F9 went very smoothly using preupgrade-0.9.3-3. There
> > was very little downtime as it was possible to carry on using F8 while
> > preupgrade was downloading the updated packages. Depending on the size
> > of one's installation and the speed of your connection, this can take
> > between 3-6 hours. For me, this is a better alternative than downloading
> > the Install DVD or CDs.
> >
> > After a reboot, the 2nd installer image was downloaded. While the
> > option to do a clean install is present, one can also just upgrade an
> > existing installation.
> >
> > The other good news is that jack, ardour, audacity, qsynth, qsampler,
> > sweep and zynaddsubfx ALL WORKED.
> >
> > Fernando, if you could forward this message of deep gratitude to the
> > guys at RedHat, I would appreciate it.
> >
> > THANKS AGAIN.
> > E
> >
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