fedora and notebooks?

[Karl Larsen]

Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Thursday 13 December 2007 08:20:52 Jan Brosius wrote:
>   
>> Hello, I plan to buy a notebook. This is my first notebook. Besides
>> Windows I'd like to install also fedora 8.
>> Can anyone tell me if fedora recognizes the touchpad of the notebook. If
>> so does fedora also recognise an additional USB mouse?
>>
>> Any help appreciated
>> Jan
>>     
>
> I guess I'll weigh in here too.
>
> Generally speaking, there's been touchpad support for as long as I can 
> remember back to the RH7,8,9 days and prior. USB mouse is there also and both 
> do work at the same time.  As others have suggested, you may want to tweak 
> the pad a bit.  I've also had no problems with a wireless USB mouse.
>
> As others have also mentioned wireless, modems, sound and misc. keyboard 
> functions will all be ruled by support of their chipsets. 
>
> As always, YMMV
>   
    My older Sony laptop with madwifi for wifi internet has F7 on it and 
it works fine with the built-in Touchpad or a mouse and keyboard that 
are both USB devices. It does very well and is as good or better than 
Windows XP.

Karl


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