Fedora 9 wishlist

1. SmartTools doesnt configure all disks - yet I have to manually configure the .conf file
2. lm_sensors found only the cpu sensor - what gives ?? I see CPU, GPU, Memory, Chipset and Hard disk using the I8kfanGui tool by Christian Diefer

By the way incase you haven't used it - I recommend installing the I8kfanGui tool from http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html and SpeedSwitch tool from http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html while you are on Windows XP. Ofcourse on Linux cpu_throtling does a pretty good job :)

Fedora 9 Issues

Ok finally got around to installing Fedora 9 and there seems to be more than the usual share of issues !!

1. Synaptic touchpad don't work out of the box installation - [UPDATE] check my later postings on this topic.
   
2. wpa_supplicant is still kicking in way after networking has started - I don't know why RedHat/Fedora still thinks WiFi is a optional add on network device.
3. Grub gets confused with which XP partition is primary - my second partition is flagged as bootable yet it configured grub.conf with hd(0,2)
4. mke2fs defaults to inode size of 256 - this is not backward compatible and more specifically it won't work with EXT2 IFS windows ext2 driver.
   

If your life depends on tapping on your touch pad - be ready to change configurations. This is an outstanding open issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439386

wpa_supplicant is still an issue as my post from Fedora 7 mentions. Do note it doesnt prevent networking from establishing or WiFi being unavailable. It is just irritating and it is definitely not the "right thing" to do. If wpa_supplicant starts after networking your wlan0 device will start and not finding the right device available will go to sleep and wait for it to return which happens whenever wpa_supplicant starts successfully.

The third point needs elaboration since my partition layout is a bit unusual. I have three entries - one linux and two NTFS - the second entry points to the third physical partition and the third entry is pointing to the second physical partition. Although common sense says trust the partition table and not the layout !!