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Re: ThinkPad is done



Suspend doesn't work well for me either. It just stays at lock screen. I'm considering going back to Openbox until a fix occurs.

On May 28, 2011 9:25 PM, "Kevin Thomas" <axel2078@gmail.com> wrote:
> F15 works on my 8 year old laptop, but suspend doesn't work anymore. My
> graphics are all garbled when it comes out of suspend. Also, gnome3 won't
> start, so I'm using LXDE instead. Oh, and have you run a df -h and examined
> the output? I think you'll notice something a bit strange.
>
> On May 28, 2011 7:41 PM, "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>
> wrote:
> I had some doubts about installing F15 and GNOME3 on my old 32-bit
> ThinkPad A22p. There is no longer any doubt.
>
> After burning a booting a 32-bit F15 installation DVD, the process
> stopped cold at this line:
>
> [ 7.076671] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
>
> No further disk activity. No errors.
>
> Kam Leo on the Fedora users mail list encountered the same problem on
> Wednesday:
>
> "I tried upgrading my system using the DVD, Netinstall CD, and
> Preupgrade. Each time boot got stuck at the line "Trying to unpack
> rootfs image as initramfs...". It seems that the installer files have
> gotten fatter and more memory is required.
>
> "This is a known problem,
> http://fossplanet.com/f13/fedora-15-i386-netinst-iso-problems-158445/ ,
> but no one on the Fedora QA or Documentation team thought it was
> material to add to the Release Notes."
>
> So it looks like that old road warrior will get F14 updates for another
> year. After that, who knows?
>
> --Doc
>
>
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