Re: Laptop recommendation
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 00:16 -0400, Philip Bellenoit wrote:
> Sometimes bad experiences can be helpful. Here is mine.
>
> I bought a Compaq Presario V6000 laptop a fews weeks after it hit the
> store shelves. It has a dual core AMD Turion64 processor. I thought I
> would be a BIG SHOT shot and tell all my friends, "Hey I'm running
> GNU/Linux, on my new laptop, not Windows!"
>
> It turns out that I got SHOT down BIG time. It took a month before I
> was able to run the LCD at its native resolution because the Xorg nv
> driver didn't include my graphics card (nVidia GeForce Go 6150) and
> nVidia's binary driver still doesn't. My sound card only works
> partially. A friend who tests sound cards at his job tells me that ALSA
> doesn't yet have a driver and that a generic intel driver is loaded
> instead. Several SMP kernels I've tried make my laptop freeze so I'm
> don't get dual core support. Also my laptop can't suspend or hibernate.
>
> I'm sure that in time I'll get all these issues resolved--part of the
> problem is my own inexperience. But next time I buy it won't be
> anything too new.
Thanks a lot for everyone's comments!
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