Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?
List, good morning,
There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from Misco:
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/
and I wondered whether anybody had had good experience running Wheezy
on it? I had two queries, touchpad, and UEFI,
Searching revealed that its Synaptics touchpad is causing problems in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1325992
but I've no idea whether this meant problems were with the Synaptics
driver and might occur with Wheezy. A sort-of assessment for Linux on
it is here:
http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/uk/2014-07-12-hp-255-g2-notebook-15-6-zoll-1-gh
I've two applications for this machine, one would be text based so the
touchpad wouldn't be an issue, but the other would employ a graphical
desktop, and be mounted on the top shelf of a cabinet, so an external
mouse wouldn't be an option. So I wondered in particular whether
anybody had Wheezy on this, and managed to use the touchpad?
Could I ask about UEFI? It would, presumably, have a UEFI bios, as
well and, while I've seen lots of postings about UEFI on the list, I
have never used a UEFI system and didn't really understand what was
being said. Are there still problems with UEFI, or will Wheezy
install quite happily on UEFI these days?
[HP 255 G2 seems to come in at least two AMD CPU flavours. The
subject model uses AMD A4-5000M, while another 255 G2 (similar price
but requiring time-windowed cashback)
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/223145/
uses AMD E1-2100 .]
Grateful for any thoughts.
regards, Ron
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