[NEWS] Fedora 42

[Hasturtium]

Yeah, looks like X11 is pretty dead for KDE and GNOME. Neither of them will start. Other X11 wms will work fine.

I ran into an issue where Xfce only wants to start in X11 mode on the AST2500, which I’m 99% I can work around by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/21-gpu-driver.conf and populating it anew. In Wayland it appears to be pretty rudimentary, but hopefully it’ll work in the future.

[ClassicHasClass]

I'm still experimenting with it on the Blackbird, but the Talos I'm keeping on F41 for right now, though it would run Wayland fine with the WX7100.

[Hasturtium]

It seems like a lot of my problems have been coming from Mesa-freeworld this time around. Replacing with Fedora’s stock Mesa seems to have alleviated my most immediate problems; still have yet to see Xfce via X11 work so far.

[ClassicHasClass]

The recent GNOME X11 session updates don't fix the problem and I think there's a deeper issue (journalctl flags gnome-shell crashing in libsensors.so ?!). It's borrowed time anyway.

I was able to get Wayland off the ground from the command line on the Blackbird and the fans aren't being driven as hard. It does seem some performance improvements were made in this release, at least for KDE Plasma.

[DKnoto]

Fedora 42 drives me to despair

Yesterday I noticed that I can't print anything. The driver for my Epson L850 printer disappeared. It does not compile... Fortunately, it's in an older version and in FreeBSD too.

[ClassicHasClass]

Well, there's some good news. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded the Talos II, expecting I'd just have to deal with Wayland. To my surprise X11 started right up and I'm in Plasma 6.3 with just about everything intact.

But kwin-x11 crashes incessantly on the Blackbird, even with plasma-workspace-x11 installed. I'm pondering if some old residual package is making it work. I would be surprised if the fact the Talos has a GPU is the difference, especially since Wayland does work on the Blackbird with ASPEED graphics.