Nice work...

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca> 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


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