Re: Helping with Hardware

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On 12/07/2010 01:45 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Alan Cox<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> My question is, how can I contribute to Fedora and thus the larger
>>> Linux community through getting my hardware better supported? Or is it
>>> just not suitable for a lay-person who knows how to program but
>>> doesn't already have a background in these things to get involved?
>> It depends a lot what the hardware is. If it's a variant of existing
>> hardware that is badly supported or the like then even with no tech
>> skills you can still be extremely helpful as a tester for anyone working
>> on it, or to assist the actual maintainer in checking it works with that
>> card variant for example.
>>
> Is there some registry somewhere where we tell people what we are
> using and that we are willing to test?
>
> For the record, F13 on a Gigabyte 880GM-USB3 with a dual-core AMD
> Phenom II (that reportedly could be unlocked to quad-core). While I
> got dual-display working at 1920x1080 each, one of which is rotated. I
> don't have MIDI working, nor can I use the surround sound. I just have
> basic stereo.
>
> I had the fglrx driver working for a while, then it mysteriously
> stopped working with newer kernels and now the radeon driver works
> beautifully. Though not nearly as fast as the fglrx driver, at least I
> don't have white lines at the edge of the rotated monitor.
>

The SMOLT database can help some, and give clues as to what some folks 
struggle with.

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/

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