Fedora and HP Pavillion11 x360 notebook

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi there,

In need of a cheap and very portable notebook, but able to run a few
VMs, i got a HP Pavillion11 x360. Can't go wrong with a "standard"
Celeron machine, right? ;-) Hope anyone else has tried that machine and
can give me hints. If not, I'll start digging to try to provide useful
bug reports.

Started using the F20 Live CD, ends ups to a blank (actually dark)
screen. Caps lock doesn't light up, Ctrl+Alt+FX won't work, I guess it's
frozen.

Got the F21 Beta live CD and it works fine! After all, with little over
a week for final release, it should be quite stable. Screen resolution
correct, sound, wireless, touch screen... mounted the windows C:
partition and installed Minecraft there (I have kids), very playable. So
I installed F21Beta to the hard drive (not worried if it ended up
erasing Windows 8, but it didn't).

After installing needed apps (LibreOffice, Gimp, Skype) followed by yum
update and reboot problems started: frozen during boot -- almost at
finish, the progress image almost full. Hopefully selecting the older
kernel the system boots... most of the time.

How can I find where exactly boot is frozen?

WiFi became unstable -- I don't understand why, it looked fine at first,
downloading updates with no problem. Tried disabling the internal wifi
card (reviews on the net says it's crap) and using a usb dongle. A tenda
one showed no improvement (but never failed me under F19) and a linksys
one looked better, but I still had a few disconnects. Another machine
using F19 was using wifi fine at the same time, besides many android
devices, so it doesn't looks like Internet link or AP problems.

The trackpad cant detect taps (clicks). I never liked trackpads, always
use an external wireless mouse, but it would be nice having the trackpad
working.

Finally shutdown doesn't turns the computer of. It drops to the text
screen showing "powering off" but I have to keep pressed the on/off
button to actually power it of.

I'm spoiled, used to have no hardware problems with Fedora over the
latest few years... :-)


[]s, Fernando Lozano