I have fedor a running on my HP ze4300. It works OK. I have been working on it for a while now. It only supports ACPI (no APM)I started out with Gentoo linux. I worked pretty good but it took me a week to get everything installed over DSL. Anyway I have fedora running on it now. I have figured out a few things but I still have some work to do. I have been happy with it so far. 1. The kernel hangs on PCMCIA without ACPI enabled. Initially I commented out the PCMCIA modules. After I figured out that I need to add acpi=on to my grub.conf I was able to turn it on. I would not recommend running this laptop without ACPI enabled (see item 2.) 2. With Fedora the CPU power stuff did not load automatically (powernow-k7 for my Athlon) I had to update a script file to get it to load. If you have a different processor then you will need to load a different module. The cpu-freq docs indicate which are supported. Before loading it the CPU would get quite hot! I don't know if I would recommend running without the power module for your CPU loaded. If you installed the kernel source there are docs for using the various CPU modules /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cpu-freq. Now when I am just browsing the net I set my CPU to about 25% speed, the fan rarely comes on with that setting and the CPU runs at about 40C (instead of 60+C without powernow-k7.) The command I use is echo -n "0:53200:53200:powersave" > /proc/cpufreq This sets the min CPU speed:max CPU speed:govenor. I included this for a sample. I had to play around a bit to find the exact format that works. I could not get % to work for the speed. When I am actually doing work I set the max speed to about 75%. 3. For ACPI laptops the suspend to disk (swsusp) should work but you have to set it up. I have not tried it because I have been too busy. Suspend to RAM will not work under ACPI in the 2.4 kernels but there is some support in the 2.6 kernel but from reading it still needs some work. I have mostly everything working, at least everything I really need: * Screen brightness buttons * Built-in ethernet * Sound (ALI) * 2D Video (ATI) The build in WiFi appears to work, all the modules load and such and mini-PCI Oronoco. This is the next thing I will get working. I think that the CD Burner will also work but I have not tried it yet. I still need to work on the volume and other buttons. I think the buttons are just work though. I am new to Linux (at least at this level) but I think that mapping the right commands to the buttons is all that is required. All in all I am happy with the laptop. I get 2+ hrs on the battery which is about what I get in XP. Ok, so the keyboard is a little stiff and the battery life could be better, it was what I could afford at ... On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 22:13, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan C. Sitte [mailto:jcsitte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:07 PM > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > Thinkpads are starting to really get my attention these days. When I > > decide to get a new laptop I may just get one of those instead. Linux > > seems to work perfectly on those. > > Dells are not too shabby either.. D600 for me.. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
