Oddly, I found that in the 90's laptops worked perfectly with Linux (the Gateway Solo I had did anyway). It's been a steady road down hill since then. A HP laptop I purchased in 2001 could not use the full LCD area in X Window... until Fedora 9 (2008!)... (X Window driver issue relating to lack of doc by graphics hardware vendor I believe). I guess the APM power management was simpler back then. Now it's a hodgepoge of half broken implementations of ACPI. Windows is ok because the hardware vendor works very very hard to ensure Windows compatibilty. So it's not Linux/Fedora developer's fault -- but I do wish there was more effort put into finding a solution. BTW: this is something I would pay for... eg $40 per release if anyone is thinking of providing a solution pack for a given make/model laptop to make it function perfectly with a given distro of Linux. Joe. 2008/11/26 Fastie <fastie81@xxxxxxxxx>: > It feels like I am back in the 90's where I need to boot up and shut down > every time I move between offices. > Has Laptop support been kicked out in favour for something ells? > C > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
