Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Joe Zien <jozien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marius Roets wrote:
> On 8/21/06, Joe Zien <jozien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I plan to purchase a new laptop in the near future and they are all 
> > based
> > on Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology.
> >
> > Has anybody used suse 10.0 or 10.1 on a newer laptop with this 
> > technology?
> > How is linux in general handling this?
> >
> > jozien
>
> I have a Acer Aspire 5670. On SuSE 10.0 my network card didn't work
> when I had ACPI enabled, so I had to run it without ACPI (no power
> management etc.). On 10.1, everything works fine, even the wireless.
> That is once I managed to get past the post installation blues
> concerning the online updates. I'm really impressed now that it works.
> Power management works well, as well as dynamic cpu frequency scaling.
>
> Marius
I wish to thank all for your  input. Now I can be sure this technology 
is ok
for linux.

Thanks again

jozien