F11 on Acer Aspire One -- working well

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> I ran preupgrade (from F10 to F11) on my Acer Apire One overnight and this
> morning it was sitting at a nice F11 login screen.
>
> I haven't done much with it so far, but it looks like everything works very
> well indeed.
>
> The only thing that I "lost" was the ability to tap the touchpad for a
> left-mouse-button click and had to use the actual button on the left of the
> touchpad.  That was quickly fixed by going to
> System-Preferences-Mouse-Touchpad
> and setting "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad".
>
> The other issue that I had is that I had added "vga=9" to the relevant line
> in
> grub.conf so I could see the snazzy Fedora 10 Plymouth screen on bootup.
> That seems to prevent the snazzy Fedora 11 Plymouth screen from showing up,
> though, so I had to remove "vga=9" from grub.conf and all is well.
>
> I don't know if it's just a coincidence, or maybe a different way of
> reporting
> the status, or if there is an actual improvement in the wireless
> networking.
> The Acer seems to log into my wireless router faster now (the balls spin
> for
> less time before it tells me that it's connected) and the power meter is at
> 100% when the laptop is sitting in a location that the power meter showed
> at
> 72-75% when running Fedora 10.


That´s likely because F11 contains one RPM which includes new firmware for
several Wifi Cards.

FC
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