I've installed Fedora on one of the Inspirion 1420 n Ubuntu laptops (I'm dual booting Ubuntu 7.10 which detected my hardware much better out of the box, but which doesn't have as much AWESOME as Fedora 8....)
The Good:
Sound
Display (but fuzzy!)
Touchpad (but as a generic mouse.)
Wireless Networking
Ethernet
Install from DVD (64-bit)
The Bad:
Display is fuzzy.
Touchpad doesn't scroll or do other touchpady things.
No control of brightness from inside the OS (though, the brightness controls work).
The Ugly (fixes/work-arounds):
Fuzzy Display:
This one's pretty easy:
Open xorg.conf as root:
Code:
su -
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Change the following:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "VideoCard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
To:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "VideoCard0"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
And of course save your changes.
More to come as I figure them out.
Linear Mode
