Fedora 7 on the Dell X1 – discussion
Yesterday I installed Fedora 7 on my Dell Latitude X1. Previously, I have runned Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6. Check out what I’ve written and discussed about those versions on my Linux on a Dell X1 page or from the sidebar.
This post is dedicated to the discussion around the Fedora 7 page (which is not called Fedora Core 7, as the “core” and the “extras” now have been merged).
The good news about Fedora 7 on the Dell Latitude X1, is that most of the stuff simply works out of the box – finally! No more tweaks to get the widescreen resolution right (aka 915resolution video bios patching) Even 3D desktop eye candy with Beryl in KDE works without any hassle.
I haven’t been able to test it thoroughly yet, but it even seems like the ACPI stuff works out out the box, using the KPowersave applet. No more fiddling around with the sleep scripts, yay!
Please feel free to make comments and suggestions here.
June 19th, 2007 at 20:04:02
Fedora 7 on a DELL D610 laptop
System | Preferences | Personal | Keyboard shortcuts
Look for the Sound section. The Volume up/down and mute may be disabled. Click on a key, then push that button. It will display the hex value. After defining the 3 keys, close.
Now you should be able to set the volume up/down or mute.
June 30th, 2007 at 18:39:54
Hi,
I´m not able to run wpa_supplicant on my X1 with F7. It allways exits without any response. Would someone send me his /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ?
Of course without any keys
My eMail is [nummer999 at web dot de]
Ciao, Andreas
June 30th, 2007 at 20:01:52
Andreas: Did you try to change
/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicantaccording to what I have written on my Fedora 7 page (link above, direct link here.)?This is my unaltered
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.confctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel network={ ssid="any" key_mgmt=NONE }By the way, you might subscribe to these comments if you don’t want your email adress to be digested by spam bots. Yep, they do understand “at” and “dot” I would assume
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July 1st, 2007 at 00:17:19
Hi Martin, thanks for the reply.
Yes I have changed the interface to “-ieth1″ and the driver to “-Dwext”
The last few Lines of “strace wpa_supplicant” are:
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(1, 3), …}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfefa10c) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f9f000
write(1, “wpa_supplicant v0.5.7nCopyright “…, 1909) = 1909
exit_group(-1) = ?
Process 7113 detached
July 1st, 2007 at 00:30:30
Andreas: Sorry, but this is beyond my knowledge about wpa_supplicant. I guess you should file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com for this. It might be spesific to the network you are trying to connect to. Be sure to give some spesific info about that (wpa1 or wpa2 etc. authentication type++). Good luck!
July 13th, 2007 at 14:25:21
Does this help? I called the script StartApps.sh and make it executable.
# for .kde/autostart/StartApps.sh
beryl-manager
knetworkmanager
firefox
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It time, I suppose this might be redundant, but it was all that I could think of for the present.
Thanks for your blog!
July 13th, 2007 at 14:27:33
Sorry bout the typos in previous post. I didn’t proof, but the script is correct. Thanks again.
–larry
July 14th, 2007 at 10:06:14
Larry: Yep, I guess that will do the trick for now. *sigh* I hate workarounds – I’d like to see these bugs fixed soon…
October 8th, 2007 at 19:08:39
Hi, I have a question about my X1 not related Fedora 7. I hope this is not completely discouraged here:
my X1 is running happily under linux now for quite some time (suse 10.0, kernel 2.6.13-15.16-default). Unfortunately two days ago, when touching its upper body not on, but directly below the touchpad I delivered a rather strong static dischard to the X1. After that the touchpads sensitivity dropped severely, with up-down cursor movements almost impossible in certain regions of the pad.
While I don’t know what else might be affected, I’d like to ask if anyone here on this blog may have had similar problems?
-wolfram
October 8th, 2007 at 23:48:06
Wolfram: Sorry – I’ve never had that problem. I suggest you turn your laptop off, keep it out for about a couple offf hours, and then check if the problem persists. This certainly seems like a hardware problem.