On Friday 28 September 2007 21:20, Richard Creighton wrote:
I have a friend that has a Dell notebook that is a Windows holdout. However, he keeps seeing my setup at home and listening to me tout SuSE and he sent me a question recently that I simply can't answer. Will it work on his machine? This is the information he sent me:
The info on this machine is: Dell Inspiron 1521 - AMD Turion X2 1.6 Ghz processor, 2 Gb RAM, 160 Gb HD, Sigma Tel high def audio codec, ATI Radeon X1270 video, Broadcomm wireless 802.11b/g. The SUSE 10.2 Live dvd had everything working except the sound and the wireless. I was wondering if anyone in the SUSE forums had this configuration and had everything working under 10.2?
Well, you'll need to watch for the broadcom wireless. I don't know why the LiveDVD didn't pick up the sound cards, but that can be simply because it didn't sense it. Generally, Dell laptops are well-suited for SUSE. I have one (older) Dell and have friends with Dell laptops. I'm currently writing on an HP/Compaq laptop while sitting next to my home-brew SUSE desktop.
Any information about how well 10.2 in particular performs on the above hardware ESPECIALLY multimedia.
Broadcom may be supported, but not included in the live dvd. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Broadcom_(BCM4306)_WLAN_Installation_under_SUSE As for the Sigmatel... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=559548 http://michaeleberhart.net/linux/opensuse/10_2/ http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/SuSE_notes/node168.html HTH! -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org