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Notes updated whenever I try a new Fedora version or discover a fix/workaround of some kind.

Fedora 8

Last tested with an i686 rawhide live cd from Oct 19 2007:

• Suspend/Resume: Suspend works fine, on resume the display lights up but nothing is visible. Ctrl + Alt + F1 and then Alt + F7 will get X back, but the text consoles never return. Worked well with Fedora 6 but has been broken ever since.
• Wireless: Wireless works out of the box with iwl3945. However, after a couple suspend resumes it eventually stops working, I seem to be able to suspend resume once successfully, the next time NetworkManager no longer sees any wireless networks. No combination of restarting network services or reloading kernel modules seems to be able to get my wlan0 back up.

  EDIT: Bryan Clark posted a workaround for this, the key part is the 10 second wait. He's also filed a bug with comments indicating the problem is fixed in NetworkManager upstream, so that should trickle down to us in Fedora 8 soon.

• Graphics: X comes up with the proper 'intel' driver, it even nails the rather odd 1440x990 resolution which previously required some hacking to get right. (no more 915resolution package needed). Compiz effects seem to work fine, although I get no window borders when I try this on my actual Fedora install that was upgrades from Core 6 -> 7 -> 8. Must be something left laying around.
• Sound: Works fine.
• Brightness & Volume Media Keys: Works fine.

Fedore Core 6

See Fedora Core 6 on the Dell Inspiron 640m.

I bought a Dell 2005fp LCD display about two years ago, a 20" beauty capable of 1600x1200, perfect for 4-tabling online poker, which was a big concern at the time. First problem surfaced less than a year later when I noticed "bleeding" in the top right hand corner, there seemed to be a "dripping" effect where the pixels would be slightly darker than the rest of the display, and would hold the image last displayed there for a little while. If anything changed you could still see the old image in that corner for awhile.

Just received my new laptop today and set about installing Fedora Core 6. Below are the problems I encountered and the tips I have for anyone doing the same.

Baseline for my installation was this article.

• Graphical installer fails, attempted to start native X server, claims to have started it successfully, then immediately fails with an error:
  
mini-wm: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :1.0.