Hey folks,
My original XO was electrically challenged, so I had to wait for my replacement XO. The new one has arrived, and armed with my 4GB SD card, I've got Fedora up and running. I did need to use the 384/256 setting with Snap3 to avoid any low space errors when running the creation script.
Lots of folks seem to be working/commenting on the performance things, so I thought I would take a stroll through some of the other test plans in the wiki and give some random things a try.
On the display side of things, most of the fonts seem to be chopped in half and some buttons appear blacked out. I can't seem to predict when either will occur, but both occur often. Looked for settings to change the DPI as suggested, but I couldn't find any.
Gave "Cheese" a try with the built in camera. Appears to function normally, though it is pretty slow to initialize the camera and get it displayed on screen. Effects work, but cause a significant delay in the refresh rate. Maybe being CPU limited here?
Setup the 802.11g wireless via NetworkManager, and had no trouble. Connecting to my WPA2-PSK/AES network without any difficulty was quite a joy!
Firefox worked and didn't seem to be completely miserable. Maybe I'm luckier then most. I didn't browse around too much though.
I was going to play with some audio but my initial testing ended here with Power Management. Basically, the XO just died :). Fedora didn't detect it was running on a battery, and so I received no alert that the battery was low, and it just ran out of juice.
Interesting little machine - I'm looking forward to more testing once I get back home to the charger.
- Adam
On the display side of things, most of the fonts seem to be chopped in half and some buttons appear blacked out. I can't seem to predict when either will occur, but both occur often. Looked for settings to change the DPI as suggested, but I couldn't find any.
Check under System->Preferences->Look and Feel->Appearance->Fonts. Turn on "subpixel smoothing" to get the font chopping to go away, and then go to Details and set the resolution to 130 or so (whatever you find most comfortable).
I was going to play with some audio but my initial testing ended here with Power Management. Basically, the XO just died :). Fedora didn't detect it was running on a battery, and so I received no alert that the battery was low, and it just ran out of juice.
Did the battery indicator light (right beside the power light) turn red before it shut down? It's supposed to turn red when the battery is below 10% power. If it didn't, you might have a slightly confused battery that doesn't quite know how charged it is. This is somewhat common with XOs, and there's a procedure to reset the batteries to get them back to their full (~4 hour) life span. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_LiFePO4_Recovery_Procedure for more information.
:) Terry
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:56 -0400, Adam D. Ligas wrote:
On the display side of things, most of the fonts seem to be chopped in half and some buttons appear blacked out. I can't seem to predict when either will occur, but both occur often. Looked for settings to change the DPI as suggested, but I couldn't find any.
Terry's responses to this are reasonable and bugs are filed for these. Please be sure to look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=FedoraOnXO before filing/reporting problems to help reduce duplicates[1]
Gave "Cheese" a try with the built in camera. Appears to function normally, though it is pretty slow to initialize the camera and get it displayed on screen. Effects work, but cause a significant delay in the refresh rate. Maybe being CPU limited here?
Almost certainly. 433 mhz isn't a lot for the real time image manipulation that cheese is doing :)
I was going to play with some audio but my initial testing ended here with Power Management. Basically, the XO just died :). Fedora didn't detect it was running on a battery, and so I received no alert that the battery was low, and it just ran out of juice.
We should be getting battery status as of yesterday's rawhide[2] so hopefully this should be a little better. We still won't, and at this point aren't targeting for F10, have suspend support for handling that situation
Jeremy
[1] And as a corollary, make sure that bugs you file are set to block the FedoraOnXO bug [2] Next "official" image set will be the Preview release. But you can always build your own images with livecd-creator against rawhide for those that want to be on the edgier edge