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Re: Best Distro

 

Adam,

Yes, I'm using the "hacked" bios that enables static switching of the graphics cards. Which driver does your Intel graphics use? Nouveau? Mine shows up as "Intel Ironlake Graphics" in the settings -> details panel. Will installing the 3.12 kernel cause any issues with future system (yum) updates? If so, should I wait for 3.12 to be released officially through repo?

thanks,
Leo

On 11/6/2013 3:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 19:00 -0500, Leonardo Rodriguez wrote:
Adam,

      I am also on a z1 (VPCZ-1290X) and everything works fine in Fedora
19 here except for these two issues:

No sound coming out of the speakers (although the headphone jack works
fine).
That's fixed in kernel 3.12, which you can grab from the
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/rawhide-kernel-nodebug/ repo and
should work OK on F19, I think.

With BIOS set to static graphics and on stamina (Intel graphics) the
suspend to RAM causes a blank screen on resume.
That's odd, that's how I have mine set up and I don't have that problem
at all. Try it with kernel 3.12 maybe? Beyond that I'm not sure. When
you say 'BIOS set to static graphics' do you mean using the hack that
went around back when the systems first came out? That's what I have
too.

With static switch set to speed (Nvidia graphics) suspend to RAM works fine.

Any tips for getting those two items working?

thanks,
Leo

On 11/04/2013 05:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 10:27 -0500, Miguel Veliz wrote:
Whats the best distro at the moment for our laptops? Looking to do
android programming and doing it in windows is painful
I work for Red Hat on Fedora and use a Z1 (the 2010 series), so you can
usually expect that either a) it'll be more or less working on the most
recent Fedora or b) I'll be sending beer to kernel devs in an attempt to
make it work. Having said that, I have a reasonably high tolerance for
quirks, and don't use the NVIDIA graphics at all, or external displays
very much.

Ubuntu's always a safe choice too, of course, as there'll always be
several others running that too.



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