Fedora on EEE?

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >>> - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to 
> >>> find something better; how's Fedora on those?)
> >>
> >> Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2.
> >> All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and
> >> a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume.
> 
> Well, it chokes on my WPA.

Because the driver is the vendor driver, has not been cleaned up for the
quality standards of the kernel, does not properly implement wireless
extensions, and will _never_ go upstream because it includes its own
802.11 stack.

Effort should be directed towards the rt2x00 project which is writing
the correct upstreamable mac80211-based driver for these cards.

Dan

> 
> > Cool. Got any "how to" pages handy?
> > 
> > Anyway, a couple question about Fedora on EEE...
> > 
> > - Does Fedora know about multi-touch? (The default Xandros uses 
> > multi-touch for scrolling, not very reliable but still nice to have.)
> 
> Not sure, how can I try?
> 
> > - What FS is best? (Given that you're dealing with a SSD.) Also, does 
> > the lack of swap cause any "interesting" problems? Any other caveats 
> > related to the SSD?
> 
> Sorry, I have a HDD version.
> 
> > - Does compiz run? ;-)
> 
> Yes, out of the box.
> 
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