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Overall evaluation of the process

Works mostly out of the box, only needed to install ndiswrapper

General Hardware Specifications of Compaq Presario V2617LA:

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

Basic Installation of Fedora 8:

• This is a coworker laptop, he wanted to try linux, so we use Fedora 8, because is the one I'm using and is the one i preffer :-)
• 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
     

li>Added in /etc/ssh/ssh_config

  
	In Host *
	        ForwardX11 yes
   

Unresolved issues

• Hibernate doesn't works all the times ("do nothing", working on it...)
• Suspend doesn't works all the times (suspend but doesn't resume, working on it...)
• PulseAudio sometimes hangs the laptop

  Mar 12 11:51:36 CompaqV2617LA pulseaudio[2450]: shm.c: shm_open() failed: No such file or directory
  Mar 12 11:51:36 CompaqV2617LA pulseaudio[2450]: pstream.c: Failed to import memory block.
    

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

• df -hl (Windows XP installed on this machine)

  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/sda4             7.7G  3.9G  3.9G  51% /
  tmpfs                 601M  452K  600M   1% /dev/shm
  /dev/sda5              16G   13G  3.8G  77% /media/disk
  

• lspci

  00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
  00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
  00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
  00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
  00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
  00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
  00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
  00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
  00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
  00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
  00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
  00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
  00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
  00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
  05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
  05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
  05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
    

Contact Information

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

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