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Overall evaluation of the process

Bored! ;-)

General Hardware Specifications of T41:

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7

Basic Installation of Fedora 7:

• I'd installed Fedora 7 because I'm RedHat boy ;-), I already use Fedora 7 on my T23, 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 (totem sucks so bad!).

    
  	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 into /usr/lib/win32.
     

• Support for mp3 for k3b installed using livna repo.

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

• 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 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
     

• Added in /etc/grub.conf in order to boot Windows XP (Civilization III dedicated ;-) )

    
  	title Civilization III
  	        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  	        chainloader +1
     

Unresolved issues

• Video output doesn't works quite well, Fn+F7 doesn't disable or change between LCD o CRT. At least, in this version, as turned on plugged into the docking station the LCD display remains turned on so, there is no problem unplugged it. (In Fedora Core 6 it was a real headache)
• Using Mplayer fastforward may hang the PC

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

• df -hl (it's a IDE disk)

  	Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  	/dev/sda3             5.1G  2.1G  3.0G  42% /
  	/dev/sda6              27G   21G  4.0G  85% /home
  	/dev/sda2              76M   12M   61M  16% /boot
  	tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
    

• lspci

  	00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
  	00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
  	00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
  	00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
  	00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
  	00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
  	00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
  	00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
  	01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
  	02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
  	02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
  	02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
  	02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
    

Contact Information

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

Useful links:

• Livna
• My Site!
• Laptop manufacturer IBM Thinkpad T41
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