Mandag 21 august 2006 13:04 skrev Marius Roets:

On 8/21/06, Joe Zien wrote:

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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'm running a DELL Precicision M90 w/2GRam and a Centrino Duo CPU with SuSE10. It runs extremely well. It ran SuSE10.1 extremely well (wireless right out of the box and all), but I had to ditch S10.1 due to the utterly stupid YAST/update BUG. Speaking of which I still don't know if it has been fixed. Despite the large amount of postings on this list regarding this matter. -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard

On Monday 21 August 2006 14:33, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:

I'm running a DELL Precicision M90 w/2GRam and a Centrino Duo CPU with SuSE10. It runs extremely well. It ran SuSE10.1 extremely well (wireless right out of the box and all), but I had to ditch S10.1 due to the utterly stupid YAST/update BUG.

Speaking of which I still don't know if it has been fixed. Despite the large amount of postings on this list regarding this matter.

Verner Kjærsgaard

I've installed and re-installed 10.1 on various hardware including PPC and if you use YaST to do the initial online updates and let YaST choose what to download/install/fix at least 3 times in a row, everything is fine. Do not be tempted to get any other patch/fix/update other than what YaST chooses those approximately 3 times and everything should be fine. Verify that YaST is choosing something even if it seems to be the same &@!($% thing each time. Once YaST is no longer choosing just one or two things related to itself, zypp, etc to the exclusion of all other updates/patches/etc, then choose whatever you like and get the updates. I hope I was clear on this. Let YaST do its online update thing for about 3 times and all should be good. Works for me, many times, on many hardware platforms. Stan

On 8/22/06, Joe Zien wrote:

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Marius

I wish to thank all for your input. Now I can be sure this technology is ok for linux.

Thanks again

jozien

One thing I forgot to mention. This is not related to the processor as such, but more to laptops in general, if you are thinking of getting a widescreen that is. I have found that there is no support for widescreen resolutions in Suse , or at least there wasn't for mine (I don't know enough to say whether this is a kernel, xorg or sax2 problem). So if you are getting a widescreen, make sure the video chipset has a linux driver available. My Acer has an ATI X1400 card, and the linux driver for that is working very well. ATI releases a new linux driver every month or so, and the support for new chipsets are added with each. I don't know if NVidia is also as supportive of their linux customers. Marius

Marius Roets wrote:

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One thing I forgot to mention. This is not related to the processor as such, but more to laptops in general, if you are thinking of getting a widescreen that is. I have found that there is no support for widescreen resolutions in Suse , or at least there wasn't for mine (I don't know enough to say whether this is a kernel, xorg or sax2 problem). So if you are getting a widescreen, make sure the video chipset has a linux driver available. My Acer has an ATI X1400 card, and the linux driver for that is working very well. ATI releases a new linux driver every month or so, and the support for new chipsets are added with each. I don't know if NVidia is also as supportive of their linux customers.

This is patently false. I've used SuSE on two different widescreen laptops. I'm typing this from a Dell XPS at 1920x1200. It has nothing to do with the graphics driver, you just need to select the proper screen in Sax2 or xorg.conf. (And Nvidia has *MUCH* better linux support than ATI)

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 15:45, suse@rio.vg wrote:

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This is patently false. I've used SuSE on two different widescreen laptops. I'm typing this from a Dell XPS at 1920x1200. It has nothing to do with the graphics driver, you just need to select the proper screen in Sax2 or xorg.conf.

If you don't have a proper driver available, then you're usually stuch with VESA modes, and they don't have VESA modes for all resolutions. I don't have a list in front of me, but I would be surprised if there was one for widescreen

As I recall, I selected the generic "LCD 1920x1200" or some such.

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(And Nvidia has *MUCH* better linux support than ATI)

Traditionally yes, but recent news makes me wonder if that is about to change. AMD buying ATI might have a positive effect

We'll see. It's very much up in the air which way AMD will go.

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:16, Marius Roets wrote:

One thing I forgot to mention. This is not related to the processor as such, but more to laptops in general, if you are thinking of getting a widescreen that is. I have found that there is no support for widescreen resolutions in Suse , or at least there wasn't for mine (I don't know enough to say whether this is a kernel, xorg or sax2 problem). So if you are getting a widescreen, make sure the ...

If by wide-screen you're including 1440x900, my laptop works out of the box at that resolution on both Suse and Kubuntu. It's got some intel graphics chipset (don't remember which one). i won't buy another NVidia-based chipset, because of the hassle i have to go through to get it working under Linux. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts