Does fedora 15 supports latest hardware ?

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:30 +0000, Mark Eggers wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:44:23 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:35:24PM +0530, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
> > 
> >> Fedora 15 doesn't works on my Laptop. So i have a question, Does it
> >> supports latest Hardware?
> >> Like
> >> 2nd Generation i7 Quad core 2720QM 2.20GHz Boost upto 3.30 GHz Dual
> >> Graphics Card- Intel HD graphics 3000 & 2 GB nVIDIA Geforce GT 540m
> >> Graphics card
> >> 8GB RAM Dual Channel 1333 MHz DDR3
> >> Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230 with Bluetooth v3.0+HS wireless card
> >> Dell XPS L502X Direct Base Mother board
> > 
> > Depending on what your expectations are with regard to the hybrid
> > graphics. You might be wise to look into, for example, the posts on:
> > http://forum.notebookreview.com/linux-compatibility-software/473915-no-
> support-nvidia-optimus-linux.html
> > Or those in the Lenovo forums.
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> Note, this is probably an Optimus issue. NVidia does not support Optimus 
> with its Linux drivers.
> 
> If your laptop is using Optimus, then there are several solutions.
> 
> If your BIOS allows it, disable the Intel graphics and only rely on the 
> NVidia GPU. This will probably drastically shorten your battery life.
> 
> Go visit the NVidia Linux forums at www.nvnews.net/vbulletin. Someone has 
> put together a software solution that appears to work. Do a search on 
> Optimus in the NVIDIA Linux forum.
> 
> I don't remember if anyone has tried this with Gnome 3 or Fedora 15.
> 
> Again, this is Linux NVidia driver versus hardware issue, and not really 
> a Linux (or Fedora) issue.
> 
> . . . . just my two cents.
> 
> /mde/
> 

You can't BIOS disable either the Intel graphics or the nVidia graphics
on this laptop, however in my experience, X successfully detects the
'intel' driver and uses that to great success (the nVidia card is
ignored).

I'd like to hear more from the original reporter as to what misbehavior
he is seeing here.

Navdeep, how did you attempt to install Fedora? Or are you saying that
the LiveCD/LiveUSB doesn't boot? Or is it the install DVD?

When I installed on this laptop, I did so by LiveUSB created with
liveusb-creator from the Fedora 15 Beta livecd ISO.

Another question is whether you tried to install the i686 or x86_64
version of the OS (I successfully installed x86_64)
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