On Thursday 29 March 2007 12:31, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:32:03 +0100 (BST)
"Hans du Plooy" <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net> wrote:
The 6325 has the buggiest ACPI you're likely to encounter - it has exactly the same bugs as the 6125. There are several ACPI bugs that don't yet have kernel workarounds.
Don't buy this! My experience with HP notebooks over the last three years (even in Windows) with clients has been consistently bad enough that I feel I need to tell people to avoid it. Rather get an Acer - they cost about the same and seem to be far better quality hardware and more Linux friendly.
On the other hand, my experience with HP and Compaq notebooks and Linux has been very good. My previous Presario has been used at work, teaching at a local university, Linux meetings and installfests, and the only thing that ever went wrong was the power connector was loose, and I needed a rubber band to make it work. The reason for this was that the notebook fell off a table a couple of times. I have an NX6125 that has also worked well. The only issue I had with it was the wireless (broadcom). 10.2 comes with bcm43xx.ko as the driver, and you need the firmware. The versions of the bcmwl5.sys that I had were incompatible with fwcutter (also part of 10.2). Solution, read the fwcutter docs, download a bcmwl5.sys, run fwcutter to extract the firmware into /lib/firmware, and bcm43xx.ko works fine. I did have some initial growing pains with ndiswrapper when I first got the laptop where I had to run ndiswrapper with the -d option, but after that the wireless was flawless. I have no complaints about Acer, but I do know that HP is a very strong supporter of Linux and has been setting up regional Linux Expertise Centers.
My thinkpad worked great until I dropped it off a table fortunately in its gadget bag at which time the Linux side screen works while the Windows side works great. It is dual boot. Mandrake 10.1 and Xp. 10.1 Because SuSE has consistently refused to support the modem. The issue of the screen surprised me and everybody on the Thinkpad list and comes about because the Linus GUI produces a better quality picture than the MS one does but this of course has a cost of being slightly unusable once the computer was dropped. Worked great before that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org