Comments on: Fedora 7 on the Dell X1 - discussion

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:48:06 +0000

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.

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:08:39 +0000

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

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:06:14 +0000

Larry: Yep, I guess that will do the trick for now. *sigh* I hate workarounds - I’d like to see these bugs fixed soon…

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:27:33 +0000

Sorry bout the typos in previous post. I didn’t proof, but the script is correct. Thanks again.
–larry

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:25:21 +0000

Does this help? I called the script StartApps.sh and make it executable.

# for .kde/autostart/StartApps.sh

beryl-manager
knetworkmanager
firefox

——

It time, I suppose this might be redundant, but it was all that I could think of for the present.

Thanks for your blog!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:30:30 +0000

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!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:17:19 +0000

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

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:01:52 +0000

Andreas: Did you try to change /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant according to what I have written on my Fedora 7 page (link above, direct link here.)?

This is my unaltered /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

network={
        ssid="any"
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

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By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:39:54 +0000

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

By: pavlos

pavlos — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:04:02 +0000

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.