I was away on a trip for ten days, so I left the fc13 test system up, running as a webcam server. It worked flawlessly, I was able to review security videos from the "motion" app and verify that no one unauthorized was in secure areas.
When I got back this morning I installed available x86_64 upgrades from the last ten days. Now USB webcams don't work (several crashes submitted via abrt), at all, meaning that I get to move the security app to another machine I was hoping to free up.
In addition the graphics (Intel based, this is not a game machine) are painfully slow, having dropped from ~1k/fps in glxgears to 60, and displays of anything graphic coming up at sand painting speed. This has to be the worst X upgrade I've ever seen, video is totally impossible, I'm estimating 30 frames per *minute* now.
I know a new release will have bugs, but I would expect the upgrades to fix bugs found, not add new ones for our amusement. FC13 looked really solid when released, I should have stopped upgrading the kernel and X while they were at the high point of their usefulness cycle.
I see all the unfixed bugs from fc11 are being marked WONTFIX, the bugs have been around since FC9 at least, no one has been assigned, and I guess nfs isn't a hot spot any more.
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:57 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
In addition the graphics (Intel based, this is not a game machine) are painfully slow, having dropped from ~1k/fps in glxgears to 60, and displays of anything graphic coming up at sand painting speed. This has to be the worst X upgrade I've ever seen, video is totally impossible, I'm estimating 30 frames per *minute* now.
glxgears is not a benchmark. The reason the 'speed' of glxgears has dropped significantly for everyone using an intel chip lately is simply that it now runs synced to the vertical refresh, so on most monitors it'll run at 50, 60 or 75fps.
Clearly you have some bug here, but the glxgears result has nothing to do with it. Update again to the latest X server, kernel and intel driver packages - -12 for server, -4 for driver, -79 for kernel - and try again; if you're still having problems, file a bug.
I know a new release will have bugs, but I would expect the upgrades to fix bugs found, not add new ones for our amusement. FC13 looked really solid when released, I should have stopped upgrading the kernel and X while they were at the high point of their usefulness cycle.
Er, F13 hasn't been released. It's still in pre-release, and if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces, as is always the case with pre-releases.