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Overall evaluation of the process

Bored! ;-)

General Hardware Specifications of T23:

This laptop is operating under Kernel version KERNEL

Basic Installation of Fedora 7:

• I'd installed Fedora 7 because I'm RedHat boy ;-), I already use Fedora Core 6 on my T41 (planning to update to Fedora 7), and CentOS 5 on my Proliant 400, so no thanks, no time for any other distro.
• Obtaining Fedora 7, just donwload it from any of the mirrors or download via Torrent (recomended) torent I've use the Fedora 7 Live CD i686.
• Boot from disk, works like charm.
• mplayer installed using livna repo.

    
  	Install the livna-repo 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 to /usr/lib/win32
     

• flashplayer installed using livna repo.

    
  	See the previous item for livna repo configuration
  	yum -y install mplayer mplayerplug mplayer-fonts
     

• Support for mp3 for k3b installed using livna repo.

    
  	See the previous item for livna repo configuration
  	yum -y install k3b-extras
     

• Support for mp3 in Banshee installed using livna repo.

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

Unresolved issues

• Using Mplayer fastforward may hang the PC

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

• df -hl

  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/hda3             4.8G  2.9G  1.6G  65% /
  /dev/hda1              46M   12M   32M  27% /boot
  tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
  /dev/hda2              27G   12G   15G  45% /home
  /dev/hda6             4.0G  8.0K  4.0G   1% /mnt/winc
  /dev/hdc              547M  547M     0 100% /media/WIN98
    

• lspci

  
  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
  00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
  00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
  02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
  02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
  02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
  02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
    

• /proc/meminfo (mainly just gnome+pigdin)

   MemTotal:       775352 kB
   MemFree:        280772 kB
   Buffers:         20296 kB
   Cached:         321076 kB
   SwapCached:          0 kB
   Active:         340028 kB
   Inactive:       124192 kB
   HighTotal:           0 kB
   HighFree:            0 kB
   LowTotal:       775352 kB
   LowFree:        280772 kB
   SwapTotal:     1052216 kB
   SwapFree:      1052144 kB
   Dirty:             432 kB
   Writeback:           0 kB
   AnonPages:      122832 kB
   Mapped:          22040 kB
   Slab:            22928 kB
   PageTables:       2412 kB
   NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
   Bounce:              0 kB
   CommitLimit:   1439892 kB
   Committed_AS:   410796 kB
   VmallocTotal:   245752 kB
   VmallocUsed:      2716 kB
   VmallocChunk:   242588 kB
   HugePages_Total:     0
   HugePages_Free:      0
   HugePages_Rsvd:      0
   Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
     

Contact Information

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

Useful links:

• Livna
• My Site
• Laptop manufacturer T23
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