CPU info

Tobiasly · 07-12-2003, 07:58 AM

Good luck getting the last of your problems fixed. Often things which should be very simple take a lot of digging around in Linux, which unfortunately will probably continue to be the case for years to come. As much attention as it's gotten in the backroom, it's still not ready for primetime in the consumer market, and drivers for much hardware is still written by hackers instead of the company that makes it.

Video resolution -- this used to be an absolute nightmare only a short while ago. I spent a week trying to get anything besides 640x480x256. Turns out I had to edit some obscure text config file to manually input the supported refresh rates of my monitor (thank God I still had its owners manual to retrieve this info) because the auto-config had gotten one of them a fraction of a MHz off. With RH9 it isn't nearly as bad, but unfortunately, laptops usually have more obscure video chipsets and thus it's more difficult to find updated drivers for them.

Trackpad -- I'm guessing it just loaded a generic PS/2 mouse driver, which is what the trackpad appears as without its special drivers. And without a specific driver for your trackpad, there's probably no way to turn off the tap-clicking. I think most laptops use a Synaptics Touchpad, but I don't know if they make Linux drivers.

07-12-2003, 07:58 AM	#13
Tobiasly hot Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Jeffersonville, IN (near Louisville) Posts: 892	Good luck getting the last of your problems fixed. Often things which should be very simple take a lot of digging around in Linux, which unfortunately will probably continue to be the case for years to come. As much attention as it's gotten in the backroom, it's still not ready for primetime in the consumer market, and drivers for much hardware is still written by hackers instead of the company that makes it. Video resolution -- this used to be an absolute nightmare only a short while ago. I spent a week trying to get anything besides 640x480x256. Turns out I had to edit some obscure text config file to manually input the supported refresh rates of my monitor (thank God I still had its owners manual to retrieve this info) because the auto-config had gotten one of them a fraction of a MHz off. With RH9 it isn't nearly as bad, but unfortunately, laptops usually have more obscure video chipsets and thus it's more difficult to find updated drivers for them. Trackpad -- I'm guessing it just loaded a generic PS/2 mouse driver, which is what the trackpad appears as without its special drivers. And without a specific driver for your trackpad, there's probably no way to turn off the tap-clicking. I think most laptops use a Synaptics Touchpad, but I don't know if they make Linux drivers.

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