General Notes

The Fedora Core 2 install went well. The following hardware was either automatically recognized by kudzu or was easily selected from the install menus:

• Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
• PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
• CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450
• Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (NOT TESTED)
• Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator]
• ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x
• LCD Panel: "LG.PHILIPS LP150U1-A2" at 1600x1200
• USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB

APM

Unfortunately, APM was problematic with FC2. With RH 7.x, 8, and 9, the APM suspend-to-RAM functionality "just worked" (even with X running) provided that the Lucent WinModem driver was not used. In order to get APM working with FC2 2.6 kernels, the following steps were taken:

1. ACPI must be disabled with the kernel option "acpi=off" (see: /boot/grub/grub.conf)
2. Before each suspend event, all PCMCIA services must be shut off and this can be done with:

      /sbin/cardctl eject
      /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
      /sbin/rmmod ds yenta_socket pcmcia_core
   

3. Suspend will then function as normal by either closing the lid or running "apm -s"
4. Opening the lid will then cause a normal resume, after which PCMCIA services can be restarted with the commands:

      /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core                
      /sbin/modprobe yenta_socket
      /sbin/modprobe ds
      /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
   

The above steps were tested and worked on the following kernels:

• kernel-2.6.5-1.358 for both i586 and i686 (the default for FC2)
• kernel-2.6.6-1.422 for i586 (i686 not tested)
• kernel-2.6.6-1.435 for i686