Re: RH9.093 (Severn) on a PCG-FR700

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, George Fong wrote:

> Looks like I'm late in jumping on the Severn bandwagon, but  I'd like to 
> echo similar comments to those of Scott Coppen and others.
> 
> This was a relatively smooth install for a beta. Nothing really broke on 
> the way through. Had a few issues with the DVD/CDRW which I am hassling 
> through but basically everything works. As previously mentioned by 
> others, I have added a whole bunch of modprobe lines to rc.local and, 
> with acpid, ACPI seems to be working. I am not sure how to monitor what 
> it is doing int terms of step downs and fan control etc but I will 
> install gkrellm which apparently has a plugin to help things.
> 
> With some hassling about with problems between gcc versions for the 
> kernel and what has been installed, the new NVidia drivers installed OK 
> and the dual screen setup is fantastic. I can run a dual screen 
> (2048x768) in the office and then take the laptop home and it 
> automatically syncs back to 1024x768 when an external screen is not 
> plugged in. The only thing I am having a look at here is what seemed to 
> be a system slowdown last night when running on a single screen, but 
> this may well have been other things.
> 
> Fn button for brightness now works.

Out of the box??!!!

> There are a couple of things in the system that seem mysterious (couple 
> of consistent crashes for the KDE Display Manager applet etc) but I must 
> concede that I like what I have seen so far.
> 
> Cheers
> G.
>  
> 
> 

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Behdad Esfahbod		21 Mordad 1382, 2003 Aug 12 
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