Comments on: Fedora Core 5 and KDE

By: mt

mt — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:17:23 +0000

Opensuse 10.1, works out the box on the X1 (minus modem and SD slot). Don’t forget to select direct rendering on during installation.

-mt

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:55:20 +0000

CyberSpy: Great! Looking forward to get some more KDE oriented stuff here.

By: CyberSpy

CyberSpy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:48:59 +0000

Martin,
I’ll be picking up a Dell D600 this weekend, so I started researching ahead of time, to mentally prepare myself for anything I may encounter. Thank you for your site, as it came in useful (and to all the other replies). I’ll be installing FC5 and ONLY KDE, no Gnome components at all (minus the limited FC Gnome/GTK required apps), and I’ll keep in touch to let you know how everything is working out. From what I gather, the biggest issue is the ACPI/Suspend, but that’s a KDE issue, not an FC5 issue. If you want to contact me as well feel free to ping me at cyberspy [at] fedoraproject [dot] org or cyberspy [at] fedora [dot] redhat [dot] com

By: Tr0n

Tr0n — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:22:30 +0000

Oooo, Mandrivia..
I’d be careful of them - it’s screwed up my hard disk not too long ago.
Messed around with the heads/cylinders/sectors and made my hard disk 10G larger, making me loose one partition.
Never had any problem like that with FC/RH.. I’ll have to try Suse out soon - as they’ve said they’re continuing with both KDE and Gnome…

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:20:33 +0000

Ahmer: Thanks for the suggestion. At the moment I’m pretty happy with my FC5 installation - the kde repository suggested by Luis works great. But if the Fedora project is moving away from KDE, I’m definately giong to try Mandriva.

By: Ahmer

Ahmer — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:59:39 +0000

Madrivia seems to be VERY pro-KDE.

I think that the whole reason it started was that RedHat 9 (later became Fedora Core) pretty much had really cruddy KDE support and the Madrivia guys didn’t really like GNOME too much. So they made a clone of Red Hat, but instad of GNOME everything used KDE.

Mandrivia pretty much was made for people like you.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 20 May 2006 10:56:12 +0000

Bharat: Have you tried the ndiswrapper? Your card seems to be listed here.

By: Bharat

Bharat — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:30:30 +0000

Installed FC5 but NetGear MA101 USB (Atmel chipset) fails to install! Hardware is recognized (/sbin/lsusb) but can not find right driver of procedure! Is there any idea or suggestions? The Atmel chipset driver source codes are for upto FC3 only!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:24:50 +0000

klaptop is in the system tray by default i believe. if you enable it (might need to restart) then it will put your laptop to sleep - at least it did mine - a dell latitude d600. works like a charm. i set it up to suspend to ram when i close the lid and it works great. the processor scaling works great too.

and the ipw2200 support is there - you just need to install the firmware…

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:38:12 +0000

Thanks Bret! This actually does the trick. But I’m using KDE, and now when I insert the card, and wait a few seconds, the usual KDE card manager asks me what to do - I choose open in new window, and then BOTH Konqueror and Nautilus starts… And I don’t want nautilus. I guess there must be some corresponding application for KDE that I should run instead.

But hey - it works - thanks!