Fedore Core 2 (Test 1)
So I'd installed Fedora Core 2 Test 1 Linux on my Dell notebook. Installation went smoothly in little tiny graphical screen, and it worked fine both with touchpad and USB mouse.
After install was done, I went to see what was working (and not) in this default Fedora install:
- Graphics: X launched with no problems, but it knew nothing about 16:10 screen of this Inspiron, and RedHat tools also had no support for it;
- ACPI: Seems like working, and you can send CPU in sleep mode. After waking up, keyboard was dead;
- Wireless: Dell True Mobile, not recognized;
- Sound: Integrated sound card does not produce any sound at all;
- CD/DVD-RW: does not work (cdrecord: Cannot open '/dev/pg*')
I also noticed other glitches as well:
- up2date never worked to the end even once, usually it stalls somewhere in the middle;
- K Menu in KDE sometimes freezes the system for several seconds if you click on it;
- system-config-packages looking in the /mnt/cdrom/RedHat directory instead of /mnt/cdrom/Fedora;
- DNS names resolution is very slow when browsing internet either in Mozilla or Konqueror;
- CD Drive: stops recognizing most CDs (CD-Rs, CD-RWs) once Fedora is booted up.
Well, right now system is pretty much unuseable - you can't even add / remove packages (CD Drive does not work, up2date does not work too...) Interesting, how much better released version of Fedora Core 2 would work?
Posted by Vadim at March 29, 2004 9:51 PM