On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently acquired a Toshiba L655 laptop, fairly new stuff (both > network card drivers have yet to be merged into the mainline kernel). I > had issues getting Fedora installed, it had massive kernel panics > related to ACPI, but installed with acpi=off. Doing so removed some > advanced features, like power management and cpu frequency scaling. > However, after a BIOS update, acpi now works and I've been having a good > time playing around. The reason for this email is as a thank you to all > those who played a part in the 'polishing' work that goes into making > something like Fedora work well on a laptop. All the function keys work, > I don't know how it knows which key should do what, but pressing Fn+3/4 > adjusts the volume, just like in the original OS this thing had > installed, the kill switch Fn+F8 works, Brightness, suspend, special > buttons that lock the mousepad etc etc etc... Its really nice to get the > operating installed, and not have to do anything manually to get this > kind of stuff working. So pat on the back to those involved in the > polishing, little nit picky details like these. > > Thanks, > Gnat > It's always great to hear stories like this. ;-) Regards -- http://home.comcen.com.au/foxmulder881/signature/details.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
