Hello Hereafter my small contrib on an AMD64 laptop and SuSE AMD64. Mine is an Asus L5D, no more available. I bought it on last year, on July exactly. So one year with this laptop .... and SuSE 9.0 + SuSE 9.1 (the two ones are installed with WinXP). What does not work with SuSE AMD64 : - internal modem : this is a Conexant one, a Linuxant driver 64 bits is available now; I prefer to buy a PCMCIA modem card (Com One) - wifi device : this is a Broadcom one. I am going to have a look on Linuxant site ... - card reader (3in1) : this is a Ricoh one About PCMCIA : with the help of Matt, my Com One modem works fine with SuSE 9.1 (updated with kernel and PCMCIA package of SuSE 9.2); with SuSE 9.0, sometimes it works .... in one location, not everywhere (That's curious). About ACPI : suspend to RAM and suspend to disk are not activated (just for info : I bought last week a HP laptop nx6110 without OS, I installed SuSE 9.3 32 bits and I could test the suspend to disk : it works fine !!, so with SuSE 9.3 AMD64 on a 64 bits laptop, it should work too). Just a small problem with SuSE 9.0 : if I halt the laptop plugged on AC power (with or without battery) and try to start again with ON/OFF button, it freezes on Asus logo. Not the case with SuSE 9.1 or WinXP. About video card (FX 5650) : I use the Nvidia drivers downloaded from Nvidia website. What a beautifull screen (1400x1050) ! This is with the last XFree package supplied by SuSE. About web navigator : I use Opera with 32 bits plugins ... and sometimes FireFox ou Mozilla when no flashplayer website. Take care : on SuSE 9.0 or SuSE 9.1 the plugin Java was not 64 bits. I had to download and install the Blackdown Java one. To my mind, the best choice : a 64 bits laptop with Nvidia graphic card and chipset + SuSE AMD64. I suppose that SuSE 9.3 AMD64 is like the previous ones : very good. I never try Mandrake 64 bits or Fedora Core 64 bits but it seems that SuSe makes the best distrib for AMD64 allowing to run 32 bits softwares. Regards Pascal
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