Sfink/Laptop Setup

I was issued a ThinkPad T510 laptop, apparently to stun any marauding elephants that might endanger my safety. It's heavy.

OS Installation

It came preinstalled with Windows 7. Partitions were:

• (unallocated): Looks like there's some hidden stuff at the beginning
• sda1: looks like the boot partition
• sda2: main Windows partition
• sda3: 10GB Lenovo restore partition

I installed Fedora 13 on it.

• Needed to alter boot command line to pass intel_iommu=off or it would spew errors constantly and fail to install.
• I resized the main Windows partition, and then backed up the restore partition onto it and blew that restore partition away. (I needed a partition for LVM + a boot partition.)
• I made a 500MB boot partition and the rest an extended partition with an LVM partition inside it.
• Then I made logical volumes for / and /home and swap. Good enough.

Packages

• zsh
• emacs
• mercurial
• gpointing-device-settings
• a whole bunch of stuff for building Mozilla

 yum install \
   zip gcc-c++ glib2-devel gtk2-devel fontconfig-devel libnotify-devel \
   libIDL-devel alsa-lib-devel libXt-devel freetype-devel pkgconfig \
   dbus-glib-devel curl-devel autoconf213 xorg-x11-proto-devel libX11-devel \
   libXau-devel libXext-devel wireless-tools-devel glibc-static yasm

• I wonder if 'yum-builddep firefox' would have worked for that last one...

Touchpad

Install gpointing-device-settings. Under "tapping", add some time to the top slider. Then go to System/Preferences/Mouse and enable tapping to click.