On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 07:38 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:42:42AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 14:23 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:35:30AM -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > > > > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > > > Work's finally looking to get me a new laptop. Can anyone tell me how they > > > > > find Dell Vostro laptops with Fedora. > > > > > > > > > > > I think Dell only sells Ubuntu on consumer machines. If you want Fedora, > > > > you'll need to install it yourself. > > > > If you go that way, try to get one with intel or amd/ati video chipset - > > > > nvidia is not well supported by open drivers. Other than that, pretty > > > > much everything else is supported. > > > > > > Actually, we've made good strides for support in the "radeon" and > > > "nouveau" (ATI and Nvidia, respectively) open source drivers for Xorg > > > lately, which will be appearing in Fedora 11. > > ---- > > now if we could get xrandr up to 1.3 (I think it's still hanging at > > 1.2.3), I could conceivably get virtual scrolling back. > > Run this: > > repoquery --repoid=rawhide --changelog xorg-x11-server-utils > > The latest changelog entry concerning xrandr shows that the package > coming to Fedora 11 at this point includes 1.2.99.4, which I assume is > a 1.3 pre-release. ---- son of gun...I love you man I had downloaded the F11-Beta-DVD, loop mounted the iso and did an rpm -qp --changelog on xorg-x11-server-utils and it only listed 1.2.3 for xrandr I was frustrated in my attempts to install the F11-Beta and I figured why go through the pain if it can't cure my problem. I will get it installed at some point today. My Aspire One tiny screen might get virtual scrolling after all...yippee! Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
