Fedora on HP Pavilion zt3000 laptop (was "No Subject")

[R. Kirk McPike]

Being something of an idiot, and it being late at night, I forgot to 
include a subject line. And people say I'm bright...

Kirk
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Full text of original message included for those who tossed my "No 
Subject" version. Sorry!


On Dec 29, 2004, at 3:15 AM, R. Kirk McPike wrote:

> I'm attempting to set up Fedora Core 3 on my hp pavilion zt3101 (a 
> model in the zt3000 family). It's a Pentium M system with the 802.11b 
> Intel wireless card (full Centrino system) and a 15.2" widescreen 
> display and CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive.
>
> I'm fairly inexperienced with Linux (installed it a few times, played 
> with it every now and then but never used it as a primary operating 
> system), and I'm having a few issues with getting set up. I've 
> searched through the archives, but didn't see precisely what I was 
> looking for, so I thought I'd turn to the kind folks on this list.
>
> Everything installed all right. But I'm sure that my ignorance is 
> what's causing me a few problems.
>
> My LCD's resolution is 1280 x 800, but that's not an option listed in 
> my Display system settings. I've set my video card to the proper card 
> (ATI Radeon Mobility 9200), and set my display to Generic LCD Display 
> 1280x800, but to no avail. Do I need to figure out precisely what 
> brand of monitor HP has included with my laptop?
>
> Also, how do I put the system to sleep so that I can safely close the 
> lid and move it about? I've been able to get a nice little battery 
> monitor to show up in the top corner, but that's about as much as I've 
> been able to do. Double clicking it produces an error that 
> '/usr/bin/apm -s' was unsuccessful. Eh?
>
> I'm very new at Linux, but I'm pretty impressed so far. This is by far 
> the most polished looking and usable Linux I've ever seen -- I never 
> used to feel like I had any ownership over my computer when I tried 
> previous releases, but I do now.
>
> Any suggestions for a very newbie-friendly resource to walk me through 
> all this sort of stuff?
>
> Next I need to see if I can get my wireless card working.
>
> Thanks in advance. I promise to get out of y'alls hair as soon as I 
> get this stuff resolved. Thanks to all the contributors and the 
> community who made this software possible.
>
> Kirk
>
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