danielito
16th May 2008, 04:31 AM
Good evening dears members of this forum.
I've just installed fedora 9-x64_86 on a lenovo T61, and almost everything is working fine. I've chosen to make a fresh install, instead of an update, and If I had to pay special attention to a couple of things (like the network manager behaviour, or the livna repo, for example), I did it not because this things were wrong, but just because they were different.
Please know that I'm a newbie, that I'm using a truly power horse, and that still there are lots of things that I can't get to work properly, even on Fedora 8 (fingerprint reader and brightness control with Fn key, for example). I suppose that ciphermonk (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=159516&highlight=lenovo) or any other of the members that know a lot more than I do, will probably give us a better report.
Anyway, the main reason of this thread is to give an advice for those who use a latin american keyboard layout. Do not choose it when you´re making a fresh install, because you won't be able to move along the different screens once the program loads. It seems that it's mixed with some other keyboard layout, and unless that you can recognize the characters that you're typing, you will get stuck on the users registration screen. Solution: Choose a spanish or an english keyboard layout instead, and change your configurations later from your hardware preferences menu, once you have everything up and running.
That's all, see you around, and as usual, I wish to thank once again all the efforts you guys are doing to keep things free and simple.
I've just installed fedora 9-x64_86 on a lenovo T61, and almost everything is working fine. I've chosen to make a fresh install, instead of an update, and If I had to pay special attention to a couple of things (like the network manager behaviour, or the livna repo, for example), I did it not because this things were wrong, but just because they were different.
Please know that I'm a newbie, that I'm using a truly power horse, and that still there are lots of things that I can't get to work properly, even on Fedora 8 (fingerprint reader and brightness control with Fn key, for example). I suppose that ciphermonk (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=159516&highlight=lenovo) or any other of the members that know a lot more than I do, will probably give us a better report.
Anyway, the main reason of this thread is to give an advice for those who use a latin american keyboard layout. Do not choose it when you´re making a fresh install, because you won't be able to move along the different screens once the program loads. It seems that it's mixed with some other keyboard layout, and unless that you can recognize the characters that you're typing, you will get stuck on the users registration screen. Solution: Choose a spanish or an english keyboard layout instead, and change your configurations later from your hardware preferences menu, once you have everything up and running.
That's all, see you around, and as usual, I wish to thank once again all the efforts you guys are doing to keep things free and simple.
