Fedora 20 on an old tablet PC

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/28/14 07:08, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:57:01 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/14 06:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> I would like to install (and use) Fedora 20/21 on an old Gateway TB120 tablet PC (2Gb memory, 300GB disk, Core2 Duo processor, etc) that has been lying around at work. I was wondering if anything special is needed wrt installation and how to get the stylus, etc going. According to the shell of the laptop, it appears to have a Wacom device. Is there any place I can read up on this? I am interested in being able to use the tablet features and the stylus. 
>>>
>>> Is the generic Fedora Gnome spin the best one to use or is something else more preferable?
>>>
>>> Sorry for all these questions: I have no experience with tablets but I thought that this might be worth trying and learning!
>>>
>>> Thanks again for any advice!
>> Boot the LiveCD on it and see how/if it works?  There are different LiveCD's for different desktops.
> Should I try the Design-Suite LiveCD? 
>  https://spins.fedoraproject.org/design/#home
>
> Or the base LiveCD? In the latter case, will it have the packages to recognize the Wacom, etc devices?
>
The Wacom drivers are part of the kernel.  So, it shouldn't make a difference....




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