installing amd64 etch on an hp G6062 laptop...
Dear Debianists,
I got an HP Turion AMD 64 laptop. It was sent with Windows Vista on it.
I fired it up and installed Vista etc.
Then I installed Debian AMD64 Etch.
I used the partitioner in the installer to chop the C drive dos partition into two creating free space of around 50 GB or so.
I then used the partioner to create a Linux partition and installed Debian.
The partitioner made a little swap partition of around 2GB or so.
I now have a dual boot machine that hops between Windows and Debian.
I need the Windows for some unusual scientific software I run.
Most of the time I would be using Debian however.
But there are a few problems at present.
One is that the xserver can't get the laptop on monitor to work yet.
I have sent a detailed email to HP (and phoned them) to get the horizontal and vertical sync ranges for the 15.4" WXGA 1280 x 800 monitor I am using.
I will enter them into the xserver configuration routine when I get the numbers. I will also post them on the forum here.
I tell the xserver that I am using a regular 3 way mouse but of course I am using a laptop. Is that OK?
It thinks I have a general monitor.
Also this laptop uses a Nvidia nforce network controller NOT a standard ethernet NIC card. Thus the installer doesn't recognise the ethernet card and I have no internet connection in Debian.
I know that Nvidia has drivers for linux and that e.g for the graphics cards you can use the non free drivers and install them in Debian and there is a web page explaining how to do that etc.
But I am not sure yet if there is a way to get the nvidia nforce controller working in Debian at the moment.
I will google it and see what I can find.
I will keep hacking away and once I get the laptop sorted I will post any useful info up on what I did with it to get it working.
Comments appreciated
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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