Re: Fedora on EEE?

[Stewart Adam <maillist diffingo com>]

On 10/30/08 11:55 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to
> > > find something better; how's Fedora on those?)
> >
> > Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2.
> > All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and
> > a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume.
>
> Cool. Got any "how to" pages handy?
>
> Anyway, a couple question about Fedora on EEE...
>
> - Does Fedora know about multi-touch? (The default Xandros uses
> multi-touch for scrolling, not very reliable but still nice to have.)
I'm not sure on this one - I read at some point that multitouch could be 
emulated with synaptics, but I'm not sure how far that's gone. The 
ClickFinger synaptics options may be of interest to you...

> - What FS is best? (Given that you're dealing with a SSD.) Also, does
> the lack of swap cause any "interesting" problems? Any other caveats
> related to the SSD?
ext2 or another FS without a journal is probably the best at the moment to 
avoid wearing down your SSD

> - Does compiz run? ;-)
Yup, works perfectly out of the box too!

Stewart