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has any tried feadora core 3 on the TR?

Yup..
works fine for me..
Only thing I dont have working is the camera.

nice to hear that. i was wondering are you dual booting? if so did you lose any data on your windows partition when you first installed Fedora core 3?

I was..and didn’t lose any data..
even had ntfs driver for linux so i could copy the data over to my linux partition..

But I never booted into windows..so i got rid of that partition.
and just linux now

Cool. did you use a DVD iso or a CD iso?

Created the 4 cd ISOs..
Since i don’t have a dvd burner

so u just booted from CD/DVD drive & away u went, walk me thru a little bit. thanks

Thats exactly what i did..
burnt the 4 isos..
put the first one in…booted up..
and did the install
the wired internet works no problem on install..so you can get your drivers for the rest of the hardware
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net for the wireless.
can’t think of anything else that gives me a hassle

I just got Fedora Core 3 working on my TR3A.  Works great, with the 1280 patch I hjave use of the full screen!

I’ve even got my Firefox Bookmarks & Thunderbird email accessible from either the Linux partition or the Windows XP partition!  Fantastic!  I have yet to try the wireless networking… At home I use the cable-based Ethernet port, which is fine.  I would like to try the wireless out in a Internet cafe or something…

My only real pet peeve is that I don’t know what the status of the battery usage is, and can’t control the screen brightness, etc.  Anyone have any clues about this?

Thnx,
Jay

My only real pet peeve is that I don’t know what the status of the battery usage is, and can’t control the screen brightness, etc. Anyone have any clues about this?

Use spicctrl for both of these…. I don’t use FC3, so I can’t tell you 100% how to get everything working… you can get spicctrl from here: http://popies.net/sonypi/ ...

My instructions for installing on Debian can be found here:   (i mention this because it works for me) ... unfortunately that won’t help you very much (excpet for the concepts).

Here’s a decent link for a how-to on fedora  

and some good battery monitor applets at
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/

seems down right now…its been pretty flaky lately

Thanks for the tips!  It’s all coming together!

Now if only the wee camera would work…  :wink: