Fedora support for laplets

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 11/12/2012 07:55 AM, Lailah wrote:
>>
>> El dom, 11-11-2012 a las 11:53 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió:
>>> I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen
>>> which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways,
>>> including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fedora on such a
>>> machine, and if so how (if at all) was the touch feature supported?
>>>
>>> I've seen reasonably nice units from Dell and Lenovo, but no nice salespeople
>>> who would let me boot them from thumb drive.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com  <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>>
>>>     "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
>>> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>>             I don't know if there's any kind of support for touchscreen.  My
>> experience in Fedora is with netbooks.  And you see, if you can install or at
>> least boot a Fedora, you will take care of battery consumption.  It is a
>> problem in my portable devices with Fedora. :-|
>
> I don't understand your point here about battery.  Are you saying you put Fedora
> on a netbook (over supplied Linux) that you get much shorter battery life?
>
> I use to fiddle with fstab to stop a lot of background disk activity (right now
> I forget the option, and can't find my notes on it).
>
Don't know about battery, I have no issues on my netbook, get eight hours.I used 
to do fiddling with write block size and such, helped so little with modern 
drives I ignore it.Might play with spin down time if I had a load which caused 
issues.



-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot