On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Charles E Taylor IV wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:34:42 -0500 > "Jonathan C. Sitte" <jcsitte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > What interests me is how many people want Linux for the Laptop. Maybe we > > should call Fedora the Desktop and Mobile solution? It makes sense to me > > since there seems to be more people wanting Fedora for their laptops > > than anything else. Maybe just an over site but it does intrigue me. > > Last I checked I am using it on my laptop. To be able to say that though > > we need suspend to work, Brightness controls, and whatever else that > > would you would expect for a laptop for power management. > > I'm using a Thinkpad 570E and this is probably the first Linux install > I've ever done where suspend and hibernate work without ANY tweaking of > kernel or apmd scripts. > > Admittedly, I have no need for ACPI (apm and the bios suspend/hibernate > work perfectly), but FC1's working beautifully on my Thinkpad. Its been pretty good so far on a Thinkpad T40. I don't use hibernate - but - suspend works fine. Apart from this - sound, OpenGL work out of the bat (ati radeon 9000). Brightness control/thinklight work fine. 'modprobe speedstep-centrino' with cpudyn package gets speedstep. And 'madwifi' driver gets the a/b wireless working. Satish
