Does fedora 15 supports latest hardware ?

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 11:41 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 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)

I think I was misremembering how I installed this, because I just tried
again with a liveusb and I was dropped to a debug shell "sh: can't
access tty; job control turned off".

Now that I think about it more, I think I was wrong above. I now
remember that the live media didn't work for me. I think did a network
install (which carried a number of updates).
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