Installing Fedora 12 on a ThinkPad T41 - Revision history

Tonko at 14:42, 13 April 2010

2010-04-13T14:42:29Z

Tonko: /* X Server - ATI RV250 */

2010-04-01T14:31:48Z

‎X Server - ATI RV250

Tonko: /* Success Chart - Out of the box experience */

2010-03-22T13:03:55Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

Tonko: /* ThinkPad Extra keys */

2010-03-01T16:21:42Z

‎ThinkPad Extra keys

Tonko at 13:44, 2 February 2010

2010-02-02T13:44:13Z

Tonko at 13:43, 2 February 2010

2010-02-02T13:43:40Z

Tonko: /* X Server - ATI RV250 */

2010-02-01T10:30:49Z

‎X Server - ATI RV250

Tonko: /* X Server - ATI RV250 */

2010-01-28T08:10:46Z

‎X Server - ATI RV250

Tonko: /* Success Chart - Out of the box experience */

2010-01-27T10:18:57Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

Tonko: compiz cube rotation fixed upstream, add new issue with OpenGL

2010-01-27T10:03:37Z

compiz cube rotation fixed upstream, add new issue with OpenGL

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 |style="vertical-align:top" |
 {{NOTE|This is based on Fedora 12 with the default GNOME desktop. Your experience with KDE may be different.}}
 |}
 == Success Chart - Out of the box experience ==

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 * unknown physical LVDS display size (0mm x 0mm)
 * nasty LVDS 'flash' when hotplugging an external display and running xrandr
-* external displays do not show the physical size, until you run xrandr for the 2nd time [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537373] - fixed in updates-testing
+* <s>external displays do not show the physical size, until you run xrandr for the 2nd time [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537373]</s> - fixed in updates
 * external ONLY does not work (both displays are black)
-* when an external display is attached, the shutdown/reboot plymouth screen on the LVDS will do a strange fade to white, like the screen is going - fixed in updates-testing
+* <s>when an external display is attached, the shutdown/reboot plymouth screen on the LVDS will do a strange fade to white, like the screen is going</s> - fixed in updates
-* Starting tuxkart, or anything that lowers the LVDS display resolution to less then native, causes the LVDS display to fade to white like it is burning out [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539936] - fixed in updates-testing
+* <s>Starting tuxkart, or anything that lowers the LVDS display resolution to less then native, causes the LVDS display to fade to white like it is burning out [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539936]</s> - fixed in updates
 * <s>Enabling 'Desktop Effects' (compiz) works. But there is a colour palette problem when using the cube rotation.</s> - fixed in updates
 * r200_run_tcl_render error with some OpenGL apps (e.g. Extreme TuxRacer) [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533591]

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 | Ethernet || {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
-| Modem || {{Cno}} || Requires closed-source driver. Install the slmodem rpm from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository, edit /etc/sysconfig/slmodem and set INTERFACE=ALSA and ALSA_DEVICE=hw:1,0 and optionally the country.
+| Modem || {{Cno}} || Requires closed-source driver. Install the slmodem rpm from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository, edit /etc/sysconfig/slmodem and set INTERFACE=alsa and ALSA_DEVICE=modem:1 and optionally the country.
 |-
 | Serial || {{Cyes}} || Requires port-replicator or dock

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 | Fn-PgUp || thinklight || - || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no default OSD. Install the tpb rpm as a workaround.
 |-
-| Fn-Space || zoom || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL || {{Cno}} || Known Xorg limitation, scheduled to be fixed in Xorg 1.8 with the new XKB2 extension in 2Q 2010
+| Fn-Space || zoom || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL || {{Cno}} || Known Xorg limitation, scheduled to be fixed with the new XKB2 extension, whenever that may be.
 |-
 | VolumeUp || Volume Up || - || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no default OSD. Install the tpb rpm as a workaround.

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 |style="vertical-align:top" |
 {{NOTE|This is based on Fedora 12 with the default GNOME desktop. Your experience with KDE may be different.}}
 |}
 == Success Chart - Out of the box experience ==

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 Out of the box external displays (VGA, DVI or S-Video) do not work properly. It is best to do the install without any external displays attached. After the install is finished you should install the available updates, in particular the available Xorg, libdrm, Mesa and Kernel updates.
-Unfortunately the latest ATI Radeon driver is not yet available in the Updates repository, so for the time being do the following;
+Unfortunately the latest ATI Radeon driver and kernel are not yet available in the Updates repository, so for the time being do the following;
   yum update kernel\* libdrm mesa\* plymouth\* xorg\* --enablerepo=updates-testing
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 * unknown physical LVDS display size (0mm x 0mm)
 * nasty LVDS 'flash' when hotplugging an external display and running xrandr
-* external displays do not show the physical size, until you run xrandr for the 2nd time [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537373] - fixed upstream
+* external displays do not show the physical size, until you run xrandr for the 2nd time [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537373] - fixed in updates-testing
 * external ONLY does not work (both displays are black)
-* when an external display is attached, the shutdown/reboot plymouth screen on the LVDS will do a strange fade to white, like the screen is going - fixed upstream
+* when an external display is attached, the shutdown/reboot plymouth screen on the LVDS will do a strange fade to white, like the screen is going - fixed in updates-testing
-* Starting tuxkart, or anything that lowers the LVDS display resolution to less then native, causes the LVDS display to fade to white like it is burning out [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539936] - fixed upstream
+* Starting tuxkart, or anything that lowers the LVDS display resolution to less then native, causes the LVDS display to fade to white like it is burning out [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539936] - fixed in updates-testing
 * <s>Enabling 'Desktop Effects' (compiz) works. But there is a colour palette problem when using the cube rotation.</s> - fixed in updates
 * r200_run_tcl_render error with some OpenGL apps (e.g. Extreme TuxRacer) [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533591]

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 |-
 |rowspan=4|Display
-| Laptop Screen  || {{Cyes}} || Occasional minor corruption. Compiz works, but rotating cube causes the colour palette to be messed up during rotation.
+| Laptop Screen  || {{Cyes}} || Occasional minor corruption.
 |-
 | VGA || {{Cpart}} || see below, fixed by installing updates

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 * when an external display is attached, the shutdown/reboot plymouth screen on the LVDS will do a strange fade to white, like the screen is going - fixed upstream
 * Starting tuxkart, or anything that lowers the LVDS display resolution to less then native, causes the LVDS display to fade to white like it is burning out [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539936] - fixed upstream
-* Enabling 'Desktop Effects' (compiz) works. But there is a colour palette problem when using the cube rotation.
+* Enabling 'Desktop Effects' (compiz) works. But there is a colour palette problem when using the cube rotation. - fixed upstream
 === WiFi ===