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[Jigar Sutaria]

I have Dell Inspiron with all latest configuration. I want to know following work with Fedora or not

If they are working any configuration required or not (Any document reference that can help me knowing this)

 

1. Bluetooth data/voice

2. USB Flash Drive

3. USB Hard Drive

4. Playing Movies VCD/DVD

5. Playing Music

6. Telephony Tools

7. Microphone

8. Webcam

9  Scanner/Cameras

 

 

 

 

.

 

 

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2008/5/30 Jigar Sutaria <jigar23mind@...>:
> I have Dell Inspiron with all latest configuration. I want to know
> following work with Fedora or not
> If they are working any configuration required or not (Any document
> reference that can help me knowing this)
>
> 1. Bluetooth data/voice

Don't use it, don't know

> 2. USB Flash Drive

Sure works !

> 3. USB Hard Drive

Haven't test one but I suppose you won't have any problems with this
if the type of hard is supported.

> 4. Playing Movies VCD/DVD

Sure works. See http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html

> 5. Playing Music

As above

> 6. Telephony Tools

Don't really know. Don't use it

> 7. Microphone

Works !

> 8. Webcam

If it has a driver it will work. Most don't I think.

> 9  Scanner/Cameras

Cameras normally work without any problems. Scanner depend on drivers.
So make sure you check first before buying

And remember ... Google is your friend!

Cheers

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[Kevin J. Cummings]

Jigar Sutaria wrote:
> I have Dell Inspiron with all latest configuration. I want to know

In the Linux world, the phrase "all latest configuration" is a
meaningless one.  See below.

> following work with Fedora or not
> If they are working any configuration required or not (Any document
> reference that can help me knowing this)
>  
> 1. Bluetooth data/voice
> 2. USB Flash Drive
> 3. USB Hard Drive
> 4. Playing Movies VCD/DVD
> 5. Playing Music
> 6. Telephony Tools
> 7. Microphone
> 8. Webcam
> 9  Scanner/Cameras

And the answer is ...   *maybe*

You need to provide more details of the particular devices.
Bluetooth tends to work, but, not being a bluetooth user (other than my
laptop supports it), I can't give you any details.

USB Flash drives tend to work fairly well.  The USB Storage device
interface seems to be well solved on Linux.  You will probably have more
problems with the filesystem type on the USB stick than with the stick
itself.

Ditto for USB hard drives, though, there was a USB Hard Drive that had
problems on Linux because the manufacturers ignored the USB storage
standard and implemented an ms only shortcut which caused the drives to
fail to work properly on Linux.  There were solutions published for how
to get around this, but ultimately, the manufacturers were at fault.

Movies (multimedia in general) is problematic.  Some solutions may not
be "legal" in some locations.  Getting around DRM is illegal in some
countries.  Solutions exist.  You will need to find them.
Read as much as you can in the Fedora Release Notes about multimedia,
and the supporting documents (like FedoraGuide.info).

The same with Music, but, in general, there are enough tools out there
that can either play or convert odd codecs into something that *is*
playable.

There are a number of Telephony tools out there.  It depends on your
exact requirements.  Skype, MythPhone, Ekiga, and others exist.

If you are having problems with your microphone, post about them here.
Most microphones are a simple device and should work with the Linux
sound systems.  Note, Pulseaudio in F9 is new and different from
previous versions of Fedora.  There are still a few rough spots with it
on some hardware.

Webcams are a different matter.  Not all webcams work.  You *will* need
to know the chipset it uses and arrange to use the appropriate driver
for it (if one exists).  Many of the drivers out there are still ALPHA
quality, a few are BETA quality, and others work well enough for general
use.  YMMV, and you need to be aware.  Laptop Manufacturers change the
underlying hardware at a whim because of supply/demand issues and
versioning without thinking of us poor Linux users.

Most cameras work as USB (or Firewire) storage devices, and can be
mounted directly into your files system.  Of course, then you have to
navigate to the proper subdirectory to actually find your pics/vids.
Others can use tools like gphoto2 to access your camera memory directly.
  Again, YMMV, and it depends on which camera you have.  Older cameras
are more likely to be problematic than newer ones.

Scanners need to be twain compatible in order to work correctly.  What
bus does it use?  USB is common today, SCSI and Parallel was common a
few years ago.  Parallel port scanners have the worst support.  They are
also the least common today.

IHTH!

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[Joe Desbonnet-2]

The only areas where I tend to have problems with Fedora (and other
Linux distros) is:

1. ACPI related issues (sleeping -- or waking up after a sleep to be
more accurate)
2. Audio *in* -- audio out always works, but getting the mic to work
for skype etc is very, very, very, very hard. For me anyway.

Re playing video etc -- the secret is to install the right software.
Redhat have a very strict open source / no patent policy, so a fresh
Fedora install would seem useless when it comes to playing the most
popular formats out there (MPEG despite being an "open" standard is
riddled with patent issues).

Go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/
and install software such as mplayer  and you then have capabilities
that would far exceed what comes bundled with Windows and Mac.

The only other problem I've encountered is playing (deliberately)
broken DVDs: there are a few free Windows players  which work with
Wine (Windows emulator). Takes a bit of work to get them working, but
googling around you'll find many tutorials on this.

Finally: remember that with modern hardware you can run virtual
machines with almost no performance penalty. So the few bits of
Windows software that you really need to run and that won't work with
Wine -- just create a  Windows VM and run them in a window (you'll
need an Windows install CD/DVD and a licence key to get started)   The
only thing I havn't yet achieved is to run a virtual Mac :-(  That
would be nice.

J.


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings@...> wrote:

> Jigar Sutaria wrote:
>>
>> I have Dell Inspiron with all latest configuration. I want to know
>
> In the Linux world, the phrase "all latest configuration" is a meaningless
> one.  See below.
>
>> following work with Fedora or not
>> If they are working any configuration required or not (Any document
>> reference that can help me knowing this)
>>  1. Bluetooth data/voice
>> 2. USB Flash Drive
>> 3. USB Hard Drive
>> 4. Playing Movies VCD/DVD
>> 5. Playing Music
>> 6. Telephony Tools
>> 7. Microphone
>> 8. Webcam
>> 9  Scanner/Cameras
>
> And the answer is ...   *maybe*
>
> You need to provide more details of the particular devices.
> Bluetooth tends to work, but, not being a bluetooth user (other than my
> laptop supports it), I can't give you any details.
>
> USB Flash drives tend to work fairly well.  The USB Storage device interface
> seems to be well solved on Linux.  You will probably have more problems with
> the filesystem type on the USB stick than with the stick itself.
>
> Ditto for USB hard drives, though, there was a USB Hard Drive that had
> problems on Linux because the manufacturers ignored the USB storage standard
> and implemented an ms only shortcut which caused the drives to fail to work
> properly on Linux.  There were solutions published for how to get around
> this, but ultimately, the manufacturers were at fault.
>
> Movies (multimedia in general) is problematic.  Some solutions may not be
> "legal" in some locations.  Getting around DRM is illegal in some countries.
>  Solutions exist.  You will need to find them.
> Read as much as you can in the Fedora Release Notes about multimedia, and
> the supporting documents (like FedoraGuide.info).
>
> The same with Music, but, in general, there are enough tools out there that
> can either play or convert odd codecs into something that *is* playable.
>
> There are a number of Telephony tools out there.  It depends on your exact
> requirements.  Skype, MythPhone, Ekiga, and others exist.
>
> If you are having problems with your microphone, post about them here. Most
> microphones are a simple device and should work with the Linux sound
> systems.  Note, Pulseaudio in F9 is new and different from previous versions
> of Fedora.  There are still a few rough spots with it on some hardware.
>
> Webcams are a different matter.  Not all webcams work.  You *will* need to
> know the chipset it uses and arrange to use the appropriate driver for it
> (if one exists).  Many of the drivers out there are still ALPHA quality, a
> few are BETA quality, and others work well enough for general use.  YMMV,
> and you need to be aware.  Laptop Manufacturers change the underlying
> hardware at a whim because of supply/demand issues and versioning without
> thinking of us poor Linux users.
>
> Most cameras work as USB (or Firewire) storage devices, and can be mounted
> directly into your files system.  Of course, then you have to navigate to
> the proper subdirectory to actually find your pics/vids. Others can use
> tools like gphoto2 to access your camera memory directly.  Again, YMMV, and
> it depends on which camera you have.  Older cameras are more likely to be
> problematic than newer ones.
>
> Scanners need to be twain compatible in order to work correctly.  What bus
> does it use?  USB is common today, SCSI and Parallel was common a few years
> ago.  Parallel port scanners have the worst support.  They are also the
> least common today.
>
> IHTH!
>
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome@...
> cummings@...
> cummings@...
> Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
>
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[Malibu]

Don't get an Epson scanner.. I used to have a perfection 1650 and it worked
great with Linux, but I had to replace it and my V200 photo hardly works.
I installed the proper driver but it will only scan in two resolutions.
300dpi is one of them which is fine but I also need 600dpi and the driver
won't do it.  I had to install a Windows VM who's sole purpose in life is
to scan.

I also have a USB drive which gives me no problems.

On Fri, 30 May 2008 23:52:01 +0100, Joe Desbonnet <joe@...> wrote:

> The only areas where I tend to have problems with Fedora (and other
> Linux distros) is:
>
> 1. ACPI related issues (sleeping -- or waking up after a sleep to be
> more accurate)
> 2. Audio *in* -- audio out always works, but getting the mic to work
> for skype etc is very, very, very, very hard. For me anyway.
>
> Re playing video etc -- the secret is to install the right software.
> Redhat have a very strict open source / no patent policy, so a fresh
> Fedora install would seem useless when it comes to playing the most
> popular formats out there (MPEG despite being an "open" standard is
> riddled with patent issues).
>
> Go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/
> and install software such as mplayer  and you then have capabilities
> that would far exceed what comes bundled with Windows and Mac.
>
> The only other problem I've encountered is playing (deliberately)
> broken DVDs: there are a few free Windows players  which work with
> Wine (Windows emulator). Takes a bit of work to get them working, but
> googling around you'll find many tutorials on this.
>
> Finally: remember that with modern hardware you can run virtual
> machines with almost no performance penalty. So the few bits of
> Windows software that you really need to run and that won't work with
> Wine -- just create a  Windows VM and run them in a window (you'll
> need an Windows install CD/DVD and a licence key to get started)   The
> only thing I havn't yet achieved is to run a virtual Mac :-(  That
> would be nice.
>
> J.
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
> <cummings@...> wrote:
>> Jigar Sutaria wrote:
>>>
>>> I have Dell Inspiron with all latest configuration. I want to know
>>
>> In the Linux world, the phrase "all latest configuration" is a
> meaningless
>> one.  See below.
>>
>>> following work with Fedora or not
>>> If they are working any configuration required or not (Any document
>>> reference that can help me knowing this)
>>>  1. Bluetooth data/voice
>>> 2. USB Flash Drive
>>> 3. USB Hard Drive
>>> 4. Playing Movies VCD/DVD
>>> 5. Playing Music
>>> 6. Telephony Tools
>>> 7. Microphone
>>> 8. Webcam
>>> 9  Scanner/Cameras
>>
>> And the answer is ...   *maybe*
>>
>> You need to provide more details of the particular devices.
>> Bluetooth tends to work, but, not being a bluetooth user (other than my
>> laptop supports it), I can't give you any details.
>>
>> USB Flash drives tend to work fairly well.  The USB Storage device
> interface
>> seems to be well solved on Linux.  You will probably have more problems
> with
>> the filesystem type on the USB stick than with the stick itself.
>>
>> Ditto for USB hard drives, though, there was a USB Hard Drive that had
>> problems on Linux because the manufacturers ignored the USB storage
> standard
>> and implemented an ms only shortcut which caused the drives to fail to
> work
>> properly on Linux.  There were solutions published for how to get around
>> this, but ultimately, the manufacturers were at fault.
>>
>> Movies (multimedia in general) is problematic.  Some solutions may not
> be
>> "legal" in some locations.  Getting around DRM is illegal in some
> countries.
>>  Solutions exist.  You will need to find them.
>> Read as much as you can in the Fedora Release Notes about multimedia,
> and
>> the supporting documents (like FedoraGuide.info).
>>
>> The same with Music, but, in general, there are enough tools out there
> that
>> can either play or convert odd codecs into something that *is* playable.
>>
>> There are a number of Telephony tools out there.  It depends on your
> exact
>> requirements.  Skype, MythPhone, Ekiga, and others exist.
>>
>> If you are having problems with your microphone, post about them here.
> Most
>> microphones are a simple device and should work with the Linux sound
>> systems.  Note, Pulseaudio in F9 is new and different from previous
> versions
>> of Fedora.  There are still a few rough spots with it on some hardware.
>>
>> Webcams are a different matter.  Not all webcams work.  You *will* need
> to
>> know the chipset it uses and arrange to use the appropriate driver for
> it
>> (if one exists).  Many of the drivers out there are still ALPHA quality,
> a
>> few are BETA quality, and others work well enough for general use.
> YMMV,
>> and you need to be aware.  Laptop Manufacturers change the underlying
>> hardware at a whim because of supply/demand issues and versioning
> without
>> thinking of us poor Linux users.
>>
>> Most cameras work as USB (or Firewire) storage devices, and can be
> mounted
>> directly into your files system.  Of course, then you have to navigate
> to
>> the proper subdirectory to actually find your pics/vids. Others can use
>> tools like gphoto2 to access your camera memory directly.  Again, YMMV,
> and
>> it depends on which camera you have.  Older cameras are more likely to
> be
>> problematic than newer ones.
>>
>> Scanners need to be twain compatible in order to work correctly.  What
> bus
>> does it use?  USB is common today, SCSI and Parallel was common a few
> years
>> ago.  Parallel port scanners have the worst support.  They are also the
>> least common today.
>>
>> IHTH!
>>
>> --
>> Kevin J. Cummings
>> kjchome@...
>> cummings@...
>> cummings@...
>> Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
>>
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Hello .

     have been using ferdoa 9 for some time now with my ACER travelMate c310 and have little or no problems .. other than bluetooth .. but that is not why this message. We have now left nextel and moved to verizon and have a new modem for my Acer and i can't get it working .. i had no problem with the nextel modem but the Verizon ( PC5750VW )  when i plug in the modem nothing happens .. For some time i have a program running at the top bar that would let me switch to my nextel card or wfi but i dont see it so i am stuck .. anyone had any luck with this modem ?
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