Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to >> find something better; how's Fedora on those?) > > Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2. > All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and > a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume.

Cool. Got any "how to" pages handy? Anyway, a couple question about Fedora on EEE... - Does Fedora know about multi-touch? (The default Xandros uses multi-touch for scrolling, not very reliable but still nice to have.)

- What FS is best? (Given that you're dealing with a SSD.) Also, does the lack of swap cause any "interesting" problems? Any other caveats related to the SSD?

- Does compiz run? ;-)

Well, it chokes on my WPA. Are you using WPA2 (or WPA+WPA2) on your AP? I have the same issue with mine but it started working once I just set my AP to plain WPA. This driver is being re-written for upstream inclusion so I suspect the problem will go away once that is complete. It just seems to be taking ages.

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >>>> - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to >>>> find something better; how's Fedora on those?) >>> Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2. >>> All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and >>> a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume. > Well, it chokes on my WPA. Because the driver is the vendor driver, has not been cleaned up for the quality standards of the kernel, does not properly implement wireless extensions, and will _never_ go upstream because it includes its own 802.11 stack. Effort should be directed towards the rt2x00 project which is writing the correct upstreamable mac80211-based driver for these cards.

a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume.

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to >> find something better; how's Fedora on those?) > > Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2. > All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and > a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume. Cool. Got any "how to" pages handy? Anyway, a couple question about Fedora on EEE... - Does Fedora know about multi-touch? (The default Xandros uses multi-touch for scrolling, not very reliable but still nice to have.)

- What FS is best? (Given that you're dealing with a SSD.) Also, does the lack of swap cause any "interesting" problems? Any other caveats related to the SSD?

- Does compiz run? ;-)

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad(a)users.sourceforge.net&gt; wrote: > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > - Does Fedora know about multi-touch? (The default Xandros uses multi-touch > for scrolling, not very reliable but still nice to have.) Synaptics driver has multitouch for years. I used macbook-style two finger scroll 3 years ago on my acer laptop. Check "man synaptics" Pinch, swipe and other multifinger gestures are also supported by driver but not yet implemented in applications, mostly because GTK/Qt lacks proper abstraction for gestures. Highest level of abstraction available so far is array of finger coordinates, not even their movement vectors. It would be cool to have some API to track vectors and common gestures to bind pinch to zoom and swipe to back/forward etc.

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 10:17 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Pavel Shevchuk wrote: > > Synaptics driver has multitouch for years. I used macbook-style two > > finger scroll 3 years ago on my acer laptop. Check "man synaptics" > Ok, so it's not new to Acer/Xandros, just that they're using the right > driver? Nice to know. No, it's that they've configured it the right way. Look for VertTwoFingerScroll, HorizTwoFingerScroll, TapButton2, and TapButton3 in the synaptics man page.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 10:17 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Pavel Shevchuk wrote: >>> Synaptics driver has multitouch for years. I used macbook-style two >>> finger scroll 3 years ago on my acer laptop. Check "man synaptics" > >> Ok, so it's not new to Acer/Xandros, just that they're using the right >> driver? Nice to know. > > No, it's that they've configured it the right way. Look for > VertTwoFingerScroll, HorizTwoFingerScroll, TapButton2, and TapButton3 in > the synaptics man page. Close enough :-). The point is, you're telling me it should (with sufficient configuration prodding) work fine with Fedora, i.e. there isn't anything "magic" about Xandros (custom drivers, for example).