{"id":681,"date":"2007-12-09T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T11:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/09\/fedora-8-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m"},"modified":"2007-12-09T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T11:43:11","slug":"fedora-8-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/09\/fedora-8-on-the-dell-inspiron-640m","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 8 on the Dell Inspiron 640m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been harsh when it comes to Linux on laptops. Simply put, the week before going to foss.in (i.e. last week), I got tired with my <i>tried<\/i> daily usage of Ubuntu (besides, I went through Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon). So I went with Fedora 8. You&#8217;ve got to <i>love<\/i> rdiff-backup.<\/p>\n<p>What works?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wireless, out of the box. This is ipw3945d. Fedora comes with the firmware now, so all is well, it just works out of the box.<\/li>\n<li>X mirror out, out of the box. Finally, I can present, using my Linux box, without worry that it would suck with an external display. Just hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, ensure the external display is connected, and voila! I get a mirrored display. I&#8217;m sure setting it up to be dual-screen is the next uphill task, but lets just keep the good memory of things &#8220;just working&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Suspend, and <b>resume<\/b>, out of the box. I can place my laptop to sleep, and wake it up, and all works. Sure, I need to hit Alt+F1, then go to Alt+F7 to see the screensaver login (otherwise, it remains blank), but this tiny workaround is very worthwhile to ensure that my laptop, works like a laptop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What doesn&#8217;t work?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WiFi light on my Dell doesn&#8217;t turn on. The Bluetooth one is, but the WiFi one remains permanently off. Who cares?<\/li>\n<li>Occasionally (and I mean, very occasionally), the laptop doesn&#8217;t wake up from sleep. I haven&#8217;t figured out why yet.<\/li>\n<li>Pressing Fn+Up or Fn+Down, to get the brightness controls going doesn&#8217;t work. While I can control the brightness just fine, its the GNOME applet not displaying it fine. Sound seems to work, so I&#8217;m wondering what it might be.<\/li>\n<li>Occasionally, yum barfs, but I&#8217;m on a really slow, and unreliable link. yum clean all, seems to fix things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried hibernate. I haven&#8217;t played with the TV Out. However, my laptop seems to be working more like a laptop, than when I had Ubuntu installed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, a minor point of annoyance. I can get Compiz working. But playing videos with it enabled, makes the video jerky, slow, and well, sucky. So I clearly can&#8217;t use Compiz, yet. But hey, it works (bottom-line and all, right?).<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fedora\" rel=\"tag\">fedora<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fedora%208\" rel=\"tag\">fedora 8<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/laptop\" rel=\"tag\">laptop<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dell%20inspiron%20640m\" rel=\"tag\">dell inspiron 640m<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/inspiron%20640m\" rel=\"tag\">inspiron 640m<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been harsh when it comes to Linux on laptops. Simply put, the week before going to foss.in (i.e. last week), I got tired with my tried daily usage of Ubuntu (besides, I went through Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon). So I went with Fedora 8. You&#8217;ve got to love rdiff-backup. What works? 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