FC5 opinions, mostly visual gripes

[ThoughtVelocity]

Well, I installed the new FC5 on my laptop and the installation went completely fine. I haven't had too much time to play yet, but all my hardware worked perfectly including sound. The sound was a first. In FC 4 I had to do some tweaking to get it to work. This time it just worked. It seems to be very solid so far. Haven't tested out any package features yet though.

I must say though that I hate the new look of FC5. All the bubbles and light blue, ick! It seems as thought they are trying to market it toward 17 year old girls driving volkwagen beetles with flowers on the dash. The logo also seems to be trying to invoke comparisons to Ubuntu. I guess I'll have to reskin everything so I am not embarrassed to be seen using it. Well, so much for one man's opinion. Sorry if I offend those of you that like the look.

[techieMoe]

Well, I installed the new FC5 on my laptop and the installation went completely fine. I haven't had too much time to play yet, but all my hardware worked perfectly including sound.

Have you tried 3D acceleration yet? I've heard there is an issue with the kernel that keeps non-GPL kernel modules from working. I smell a rant coming on as soon as I get my copy of FC5.

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

Personally I find it kind of hard to keep up. It was only a year ago when people were still using FC3..........@_@

Anyone know what the system requirements are? I never used FC4 because it required like 128mb of video memory.

[ThoughtVelocity]

I have not tried 3d acceleration yet. I have an ATI 7500(?) mobility that I could not get to work in FC4. Maybe FC5 will be better, but I doubt given the nature of ATI stuff. I'll have to try tonight. On a side note I know a lot of people had problems with udev and system hangs at boot time, but I had no problems with that.

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

I have not tried 3d acceleration yet. I have an ATI 7500(?) mobility that I could not get to work in FC4. Maybe FC5 will be better, but I doubt given the nature of ATI stuff. I'll have to try tonight. On a side note I know a lot of people had problems with udev and system hangs at boot time, but I had no problems with that.

Most if not all newer graphics cards already come with built in acceleration. Which basically means that they use their own processor to load graphics.

[techieMoe]

Most if not all newer graphics cards already come with built in acceleration. Which basically means that they use their own processor to load graphics.

I'm confused. What are you talking about?

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

I forgot to add that to use the effects of the built in 3d acceleration of a video card you need to have xfree86 4.X, which you can download here and go into the Direct Rendering Manager in linux and change the hardware settings.

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

I'm confused. What are you talking about?

3D graphics acceleration. Actually I forgot to add that you need to do direct rendering to get it to work within linux.

[techieMoe]

3D graphics acceleration. Actually I forgot to add that you need to do direct rendering to get it to work within linux.

So what you're saying is there is a way to run 3D accelerated using an ATI card without installing drivers?

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

So what you're saying is there is a way to run 3D accelerated using an ATI card without installing drivers?

No, you as well as I know that it would be impossible for any hardware to be recognised without having the drivers. I'm saying that it can be configured using the DRI within Linux.