This:
--- google.com ping statistics --- 49 packets transmitted, 30 received, 38% packet loss, time 54259ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1288.705/2175.903/3347.027/364.736 ms, pipe 4
really makes me want back my internet at home.
But a good reason to finally install and configure presto. For the sake of all the poor Linux users, who do not have a fast internet connection I really hope, that it will make it into Fedora 9.
Oder auch nicht. Soviel zum Thema „Bittorrent ist böse“.
Ich bin jetzt hochoffiziell Übersetzer in Fedoras German Translation Team. Was mache ich da? Übersetzen natürlich. Damit wird versucht, Linux, hier Fedora im Speziellen, für möglichst viele Sprecher nicht-Englischer Sprachen zugänglich zu machen. Weil Deutsch mit über 100 Millionen Sprechern eine große Zielgruppe ist, sind hier Helfer immer gerne gesehen.
Aber natürlich gibt es auch andere Möglichkeiten, bei Fedora mitzuhelfen. Diese Seite zeigt diese Möglichkeiten auf.
Schaut euch also meine Seite über mich an und meldet Fehler oder schlechte Übersetzungen! Dann können wir die verbessern!
As some of you may have read or somehow learnt, I do own a new laptop now. Well, actually it’s only used-new, but as good as new and still with warranty. Anyway, first thing I did: Put in the Fedora 8 Live-CD, booted, enjoyed. Almost everything worked out of the box. Exceptions were the graphics (ATI Mobility Radeon x1300) and the webcam, at least everything else I checked worked, including wireless (most important!) and the CPU-throttling, which cools the laptop quite down a lot. So, next logical step: Install Fedora. After doing so, I activated the additional repositories, livna, freshrpms and atrpms. Following the guidelines from this tutorial, I got almost my previous installation. Only one really bothering thing was still there: Graphics not working!
The laptop does have the already mentioned ATI Mobility x1300 graphics chipset and there is the proprietary fglrx driver for it. BUT: the version available until some time ago (7.12) did not support the native resolution of the screen, which is 1680×1050. I want that resolution, badly, that’s what I spent the money for! So, what are the alternatives? I don’t use the 3D-effects of the desktop, so any driver would be fine. That’s how I found out about the radeonhd driver. It’s a free, though yet incomplete driver for ATI graphic cards. At least, with it I got my 1680×1050 resolution. Too bad though, that it doesn’t allow me to use my webcam, at least it’s not working within skype and cheese but it worked when I used the fglrx driver for testing. Lately, a new version of that driver was released and it promises to fix my resolution problem. I will give it a try, as soon as it is in the livna-repo. And yes, I am too lazy to circumvent my package manager!
What would be the overall conclusion, regarding the Acer Travelmate 8204 and Fedora? Well, it is a pleasure. I barely, if ever reboot, as Suspend and Hibernate are working as well and I can say for sure, that this is the most productive and fastest laptop I’ve ever worked with. Well done, Acer! Not so well done, ATI!