Laptop/Notebook support

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Cam wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm concerned about the level of support for laptops / notebooks in Fedora 
> Core. I get the impression that most desktop systems and hardware largely 
> work but notebooks tend to have problems with power management, suspend, cpu 
> throttling, hardware buttons and integrated hardware (eg. wireless devices).
>
> So if anyone out there has a notebook model that is fully working, let's have 
> a show of hands. How many models are available where everything just works?
>
> I've got one but it's only just started suspending reliably, the power 
> management is not working and features like screen brightness have not worked 
> since leaving APM for ACPI. Although I love the latest software that comes 
> with Fedora I feel it's badly let down by it's hardware support.
>
> Is anyone considering working on a 2.4 / APM based release that would support 
> the notebooks and laptops that are not really usable with Fedora as it 
> stands?

You know you can use APM with FC2 as well? (default in FC1)

boot with kernel option 'acpi=off'


Satish