From fedora at adslpipe.co.uk Mon Jul 3 11:20:19 2006 From: fedora at adslpipe.co.uk (Andy Burns) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:20:19 +0100 Subject: Welcome and current status In-Reply-To: <44990877.7020801@redhat.com> References: <44990877.7020801@redhat.com> Message-ID: <44A8FD73.8040102@adslpipe.co.uk> Phil Knirsch wrote: > I've just wanted to say welcome to everyone who joined the mailinglist > in the last few days after the annoucement that i'd be starting to work > on improving Fedora Core and laptops. I joined the list a few months ago, and it's been so quiet I'd almost forgotten about it, hopefully the publicity will ramp up the volume a bit ;-) I have run Fedora from FC1 through to FC6T1 on a Dell D800 laptop, with gradual improvements each time, e.g. LCD resolution, WiFi without building my own kernel, NTFS with the help of other repos rather than rebuilding my own kernel. I like the new battery information and charge/power graphs in the latest Gnome power manager, helps to show where the juice goes. Suspend/Hibernate/Resume is still an issue for me, it quite surprises me that this is the default when running on battery, as it means closing the lid is guaranteed to crash the laptop when it tries to resume. Bluetooth with the Dell inbuilt transceiver works, but I had to manually do a # hidd --search to use my bluetooth mouse, the gnome bluetooth manager would detect it but not make a connection, not tried bluetooth GPRS connection to phone, but I presume that's straightforward. I use the machine in various configurations depending where it is in use a) undocked with internal LCD b) docked with only external LCD c) docked with internal *and* external LCDs it would be nice to have on-the-fly screen detection, which I gather is on the cards with FC6, though my initial experiments with using DDC have been mixed so far, I can manage using ctrl-alt-plus/minus to manually switch resolutions. I think the only hardware that's not supported by linux on the machine is the Texas Instruments smartcard reader, I've been running xen kernels too, semi-pointelss for me at the moment, as I don't need multiple linux instances on a laptop, but I'll probably upgrade the laptop to one with T2700 dual core to get VT and allow concurrent XP + Linux, instead of dual-booting. From fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu Mon Jul 10 22:06:46 2006 From: fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu (shmuel siegel) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:06:46 +0200 Subject: latitude d620 Message-ID: <345A29B1DB464CCFBE4267FA41AF4E15@shmuelsPC> Are the lattitude d620 screen resolution problems and sound problems being officially addressed? I have seen unofficial fixes using 915resolution for how to get fedora to recognize the wide screen on the laptop but I haven't seen any solutions to the sound system problem. Sound works through the headphones but not through the speakers. See this page for a description of the problems. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fedora at leemhuis.info Tue Jul 11 16:21:53 2006 From: fedora at leemhuis.info (Thorsten Leemhuis) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:21:53 +0200 Subject: latitude d620 In-Reply-To: <345A29B1DB464CCFBE4267FA41AF4E15@shmuelsPC> References: <345A29B1DB464CCFBE4267FA41AF4E15@shmuelsPC> Message-ID: <44B3D021.6070304@leemhuis.info> shmuel siegel schrieb: > Are the lattitude d620 screen resolution problems and sound problems > being officially addressed? I have seen unofficial fixes using > 915resolution for how to get fedora to recognize the wide screen on the > laptop FC6 hopefully will fix it with a experimental i180-driver that's already in rawhide and will be in FC6T2. > but I haven't seen any solutions to the sound system problem. > Sound works through the headphones but not through the speakers. > See this page for a description of the problems. This should be reported upstream (e.g. alsa developers, www.alsa-project.org). This is not an area where Fedora developers fix bugs ormally -- it should be fixed once and for all at the right place. Then every distribution and all those that use a vanilla kernel get it fixed. CU thl From jaroslav at aster.pl Tue Jul 11 16:54:59 2006 From: jaroslav at aster.pl (Jaroslaw Gorny) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:54:59 +0200 Subject: latitude d620 In-Reply-To: <44B3D021.6070304@leemhuis.info> References: <345A29B1DB464CCFBE4267FA41AF4E15@shmuelsPC> <44B3D021.6070304@leemhuis.info> Message-ID: <200607111855.09258.jaroslav@aster.pl> Dnia wtorek, 11 lipca 2006 18:21, Thorsten Leemhuis napisa?: > shmuel siegel schrieb: > > Are the lattitude d620 screen resolution problems and sound problems > > being officially addressed? I have seen unofficial fixes using > > 915resolution for how to get fedora to recognize the wide screen on the > > laptop > > FC6 hopefully will fix it with a experimental i180-driver that's already > in rawhide and will be in FC6T2. I've ported xorg-x11-drv-i810 version 1.6.0-3 from Rawhide to FC5 (it required recompiling of several other packages. I see a progress -> card is detected and acceleration works quite well. However 915resolution is still required (or have I messed it totally up?; it's damn hot here these days). > > > but I haven't seen any solutions to the sound system problem. > > Sound works through the headphones but not through the speakers. > > See this page for a description of the problems. > > This should be reported upstream (e.g. alsa developers, > www.alsa-project.org). This is not an area where Fedora developers fix > bugs ormally Yes, You're right, they _should_ fix it ;) I tried to get some help (or to help with investigating what's wrong) on alsa-user mailing list, but with no interest from the devs. -- Jaroslaw Gorny jaroslav at aster.pl -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GMU/E/CS d+/-- s+: a- c++ UL++/US P+>++ L+++>++++ E>++ W N++ o? 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I have seen unofficial fixes using >>> 915resolution for how to get fedora to recognize the wide screen on the >>> laptop >> FC6 hopefully will fix it with a experimental i180-driver that's already >> in rawhide and will be in FC6T2. > > I've ported xorg-x11-drv-i810 version 1.6.0-3 from Rawhide to FC5 (it required > recompiling of several other packages. > I see a progress -> card is detected and acceleration works quite well. > However 915resolution is still required (or have I messed it totally up?; > it's damn hot here these days). I meant the modesetting branch -- see http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.0-6.modeset20060707.src.rpm >>> but I haven't seen any solutions to the sound system problem. >>> Sound works through the headphones but not through the speakers. >>> See this page for a description of the problems. >> This should be reported upstream (e.g. alsa developers, >> www.alsa-project.org). This is not an area where Fedora developers fix >> bugs ormally > Yes, You're right, they _should_ fix it ;) > I tried to get some help (or to help with investigating what's wrong) on > alsa-user mailing list, but with no interest from the devs. Try harder. Report a bug. Nearly each of the last four or five new alsa-versions/kernel contained added some machine/codec specific workarounds iirc. Fedora Devs probably won't fix it. Their mantra is "upstream" for things like this. CU thl From Marcello.Fanti at mi.infn.it Thu Jul 13 09:14:02 2006 From: Marcello.Fanti at mi.infn.it (Marcello Fanti) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:14:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: about Acer Aspire 9410 series Message-ID: Hello everybody, I'm considering buying an Acer Aspire 9410 series laptop, and I'd like to know if it is straightforward/easy/difficult to install Fedora on it (or alternatively, RedHat enterprise) Does anybody has experience on this? Many thanks in advance Marcello