Today, I have successfully installed Fedora 7 on my Inspiron 6400 model. Earlier I was using Fedora 4, but none of the power saving options were working with that. I too did not bother to fix those issues as I was mostly using widows XP, installed on the other partition. Today I thought of checking if the latest distributions have fixed those problems and tried Fedora 7 installation from DVD.
Except the initial boot problem, I am very much happy with Fedora 7. Hibernate, suspend are working. I am posting here the problem I faced, so that if anyone else is also facing this issue, it would be helpful for them.
Once the installation completes, in the first boot, machine hangs after it says "Uncompressing Kerenl...Ok.. Booting kernel". And the system does not respond after that. The fix for this problem is to change the boot options. Add the line "clocksource=acpi_pm" to the end of the second line in the boot commands. After this, machine boots without any issues. Once the system is up, you need to do the same change again in /boot/grub/grub.conf as the previous change applies only for that boot instance.Labels: Fedora 8