On Monday 11 July 2005 01:01 am, Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
In short, I would avoid HP/Compaq laptops (64-bit or 32-bit) and stick with SuSE, especially if I needed a 64-bit distribution. I would also consider installing apt-get and its synaptic GUI.
I hear you pain and frustration. Just to give some credit, I have the zv5000 (HP amd_64) laptop and love it. everything works except the wireless lan because there isn't 64bit windows drivers to reverse engineer. I haven't tried the modem. Even the scrolling touchpad works(This took some configuring in 9.2 and just worked in 9.3. The only trouble I had was the newer nvidia drivers. They needed to be forced to recognize that they were on a laptop. Once you use the binary drivers from nvidia, there is some more tweaking needed to get suspending to disk to work (I haven't done yet), but is still possible. When I got the laptop, shortly after the harddrive went bad. I was able to get a human on the phone and a new drive being crossed shipped within 1/2 hour of dialing. I WILL /WOULD get another HP laptop (amd 64) if I had the chance. I love mine, and SuSE! B-)