My 5720 arrived yesterday (to my surprise) and while working on an important project, I tossed FC4 onto it. Some quick impressions and a request or two for assistance.
First, the machine itself: so far, I love it. I'm coming from a 5600D (which, in turn, I loved), but this machine is just great. I'm particularly impressed by the screen and the 7800...wow. This machine runs SO MUCH COOLER than the 5600, I think I might go over to the Sager-specific list and tell everyone whose machines are overheating to switch to Linux. I can run Far Cry through wine at full-everything @ 1920 (which shocked me) for 30m and not even crack 120F (50C).
Meanwhile, back to Fedora.
I wanted to do an HTTP load (work hosts the iso's), but the boot CD didn't recognize either the wireless card or the wired card, to my surprise. I had my old Lucent pcmcia card next to me, so I tossed it in and bingo!, success. FC4 load went well, as usual.
Upon reboot, the system would hang when starting PCMCIA services. Sure, I can go around it, but I need that service working to get on-line...so a little googling shows that editing my pcmcia.conf file (iirc) and changing a memory range from 0x800 to 0x810 did the job. Easy.
I kept installing and had fun with the nvidia drivers. After dealing with ATI for so long, I had a hard time believing it worked. 13000-14000 in glxgears. WOWZER.
I decided to look at my networking config and noticed that the machine could now see my wireless card (Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915ABG LAN), so I set it to run through that and pulled out the PCMCIA card. My connection went down. I must have goofed, I figure, so I do it again...but now, I can't see the Intel any more. Nor can I see the entry for the orinoco_cs. I stuck the card back in...and both show up. The Intel is eth0, so I point to that - and CLEARLY, it's using the PCMCIA card. I realize that this sounds like nonsense, so I'll look into it later.
Meanwhile...no sound (HiDef Azalia Stereo Sound). I see that many others have a similar problem. Does anyone know about it?
More later, have to run!
First, the machine itself: so far, I love it. I'm coming from a 5600D (which, in turn, I loved), but this machine is just great. I'm particularly impressed by the screen and the 7800...wow. This machine runs SO MUCH COOLER than the 5600, I think I might go over to the Sager-specific list and tell everyone whose machines are overheating to switch to Linux. I can run Far Cry through wine at full-everything @ 1920 (which shocked me) for 30m and not even crack 120F (50C).
Meanwhile, back to Fedora.
I wanted to do an HTTP load (work hosts the iso's), but the boot CD didn't recognize either the wireless card or the wired card, to my surprise. I had my old Lucent pcmcia card next to me, so I tossed it in and bingo!, success. FC4 load went well, as usual.
Upon reboot, the system would hang when starting PCMCIA services. Sure, I can go around it, but I need that service working to get on-line...so a little googling shows that editing my pcmcia.conf file (iirc) and changing a memory range from 0x800 to 0x810 did the job. Easy.
I kept installing and had fun with the nvidia drivers. After dealing with ATI for so long, I had a hard time believing it worked. 13000-14000 in glxgears. WOWZER.
I decided to look at my networking config and noticed that the machine could now see my wireless card (Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915ABG LAN), so I set it to run through that and pulled out the PCMCIA card. My connection went down. I must have goofed, I figure, so I do it again...but now, I can't see the Intel any more. Nor can I see the entry for the orinoco_cs. I stuck the card back in...and both show up. The Intel is eth0, so I point to that - and CLEARLY, it's using the PCMCIA card. I realize that this sounds like nonsense, so I'll look into it later.
Meanwhile...no sound (HiDef Azalia Stereo Sound). I see that many others have a similar problem. Does anyone know about it?
More later, have to run!
Now I gotta look around for solutions on the audio to get it actually working 
