Here are my experiences last weekend installing Fedora 10beta (91-1, I think) on Toshiba Satellite A215-S4767 laptop. This machine has the AMD Turion, ATI Radeon X1200 (1280x800) video, & the Atheros AR5007EG/AR2425 wifi. The DVD booted ok and the anaconda installer started in what looked like the full 1240x800 display - unlike when I installed F9. No mouse active at this time. When the installation options window appeared on the desktop, the lower third or so of the window (where the option select boxes are located) was hidden at the bottom of the display. I went ahead with the install by tabbing and pressing enter till the correct selection was made. I had to choose the defaults and was not able to get smolt to configure. Everything installed fine otherwise. On first boot, it stalled at starting sendmail & sm-client. I had changed the name from localhost during install. Would be nice if the installer could fix the hosts file to prevent this?? The next boot went rapidly & the display appeared good except the mouse did not stop at the bottom of the display - it continued for an extra inch (2.5cm) or so. But - wifi worked!!! The window popped up to enter my pass phrase & I was connected right out of the box, so to say. No configuration, extra drivers, nothing. I almost fell out of my chair I was so happy. Thank you. Thank you. After the system downloaded 500+ updates & I re-started, the mouse now stops at the bottom of the display, wifi works, the built-in camera works, I can hear system sounds but haven't had time to test more. lsusb sees the fingerprint reader but I haven't tried it further - & probably won't, they're a pita. I did install both Gnome & KDE - so far both seem stable. Now, if I could get Skype to work, I could dump Vi$ta. Great job the developers have done. I would like to be able to see the grub boot option count down timer though. Just one question. What is that large blue hair ball on the right side of the display? =:) Fred -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
