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Overall evaluation of the process

Some small complications. I think that there is better machines on the market.

General Hardware Specifications of HP Compaq 6510b:

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.24.3-34.fc8

Basic Installation of Fedora 8:

• I've installed Fedora 8 because I'm RedHat boy ;-), I'm already using Fedora 8 on my T41, and CentOS 5 on my Proliant 400, so no thanks, no time for any other distro.
• Obtaining Fedora 8, just donwload it from any of the mirrors or download via Torrent (recomended) torent I've use the Fedora 8 Live CD i686.
• Boot from disk, works like charm.
• mplayer installed using livna repo (totem sucks so bad!).

    
  	Install the livna-repo:
  	rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
  	Then just do:
  	yum -y install mplayer mplayerplug-in
  	mplayerplug-in provides the Firefox's plugin.
  	I've downloaded the "All codecs" package from mplayer Package then, as root, extracted into /usr/lib/win32.
     

• Support for mp3 in Banshee installed using livna repo.

    
  	See the previous item for livna repo configuration.
  	yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
     

• Support for Adobe Flash Player using Adobe repo.

    
  	Install the Adobe-Repo:
  	rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  	Or visit the download site for updated info.
  	Then just do:
  	yum -y install flash-plugin
     

• Added gtk+ for Enemy Territory.

    
  	yum -y install gtk+
     

• Added in /etc/ssh/ssh_config (I'm too lazy to add -X every time)

    
  	In Host *
  	        ForwardX11 yes
     

Unresolved issues

• Sound stop working after suspend/hibernate, working on it...
• Hibernate doesn't works all the times ("do nothing")
• Suspend doesn't works all the times (suspend but doesn't resume)
• Touch buttons doesn't behave correctly, incresae/decrease volumen doesn't works, mute works, for a while, presentation doesn't, wifi neither
• Bizarre information from top

    Cpu(s): 78.7%us, 21.1%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
    Mem:   1026440k total,   697468k used,   328972k free,    20840k buffers
    Swap:  1048568k total,        0k used,  1048568k free,   323056k cached
  
    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
    3194 casep     20   0  162m  26m  17m S  197  2.6   7:20.35 pidgin   
  

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

• df -hl (plans for install Windows XP, as soon as I can find the drivers....)

  Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVolRaiz  4.8G  2.9G  2.0G  60% /
  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVolHome  52G   11G   39G  21% /home
  /dev/sda1  99M   19M   76M  20% /boot
  tmpfs  502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
    

• lspci

  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
  00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
  00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 03)
  00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
  00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
  00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
  00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
  00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
  00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
  00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
  00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
  02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)
  02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02)
  10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
  18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
    

Contact Information

• Carlos A. Sepulveda M.
• ICQ: 31472448
• GTALK/MSN: carlos.sepulveda[at]gmail.com

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