On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:51 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > Installed FC5 on a Dell Latitude CPx laptop yesterday. Install went > > fairly smoothly. The only problems encountered was the LCD was not > > identified. It defaulted to a 800x600 resolution. Was able to correct > > that later by selecting a higher resolution screen and set it to > > 1024x768. > > > > IMHO the package selection screens appeared a little cartoonish. It > > might be the laptop screen and the default resolution. Will have to > > compare when I get a chance to install on a desktop system with a better > > monitor and video card. > > > > You probably got the impression from the Icons. The interface probably > needs a facelift. > > The package selection menus from FC4 looked more professional IMHO. A face lift should be planned for the next release if possible. > > It was nice to see that the prism54 drivers were included and the > > wireless card was detected. The only issue with that was that I had to > > get the firmware copied to the /lib/firmware directory. After that I > > was able to get the wireless connection up an running. > > Most of the wireless cards firmware doesnt meet the redistribution > guidelines for Fedora and has to be downloaded manually. Rest of the > infrastructure usually works well. > Figured that was the issue. Did not take me long to get this issue sorted since I had to manually install all of the drivers and firmware in FC2 so I knew where the parts were and understood the error messages in /var/log/messages. Is there a resource available for new users to help them find the info and the firmware for such devices? I can see a new user having lots of problems getting all the parts to get such a wireless card working. > > Today I noticed the CPU getting hit really hard by the beagle process. > > I looked for where this was started but did not find it in the services > > tool. I did find and entry under System->Search & Indexing that was set > > to start search and indexing services automatically. I disable this > > option. I am hoping that disables this beagle task completely. > > Searching through the menus I don't see anything that would allow > > configuration or use of this beagle search service. Possibly I did not > > install a part of it. But if it eats CPU cycles as it did I don't think > > this is something I would want to run on this laptop. Not clear on the > > benefits of using beagle either. The other thread on this topic did not > > shed much light on that. > > > > Beagle is a automatic indexing and search tool. Sort of like Google > desktop search in Windows or Spotlight in Macs. > http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page. It is disabled by default in Fedora > Core 5 since it was found to have a nasty memory leak just before the > release. The latest update should fix this. > > It is disabled by default? Then why did the process get started on this machine? Or is there another part that was disabled? I need to find a tutorial that explains how this beagle application is suppose to work. > > So far things have worked better than expected, other than the items > > noted. Good job everyone! > > > > > > Thank you for the feedback. You are welcome. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
