Hi Stephane,

I just put Fedora Core 2 on my new Dell X300 laptop. It was not trivial.
Not difficult but very tedious.  Lots of customizations.  I was able to:

(1) read the ACPI correctly.  My battery applet displays the charge
    correctly which it did not do with the standard Fedora Core 2 kernel.
(2) drive the LCD and SVGA output simultaneously.  Good for OO Impress
    presentations.

I've left many things unfinished as I have other work to attend to.  Things
that need to be done:

(1) More work on ACPI.  I have no tools the acpid daemon can call to manage
    power usage on the laptop.
(2) Kernel does not see the built-in wireless.  Haven't looked into this one
    at all.  The gigabit wired network interface does work so I'm fine for
    the moment.

If you need more info, you can contact me directly and I will give you
whatever pointers I have about my efforts.

Cheers! Ken


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Stéphane Acounis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to know the status of laptops running SL30x, especially
> ACPI.
> I have in mind to switch from RH9 on a Dell D800 laptop as it is very
> close to RHEL3.
> RedHat certifies the Dell D600 (which is very close to D800) as
> supported under RHEL3 but gives no information about power and
> thermal management.
> 
> If someone has informations even on a different laptop, please share
> them.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>