Question! Anyone using or had experience with the Gateway M520 laptop? How is it with SuSE and does it behave well with a dual boot setup? Thanks for any info. regards, Lee -- -- KMail v1.9.1 -- KDE v3.5 -- SuSE Linux v10.0 -- Registered Linux User #225206 Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
On Sat February 4 2006 9:05 am, BandiPat wrote:
Anyone using or had experience with the Gateway M520 laptop? How is it with SuSE and does it behave well with a dual boot setup? you might try one of the livecd disks and boot it, just to see if it recognizes everything. I added a dual boot setup to my Dell XPS laptop without a problem. brand new out of the box I had to update drivers to get the wi-fi working with my netgear router.
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
On Saturday 04 February 2006 09:22, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sat February 4 2006 9:05 am, BandiPat wrote:
Anyone using or had experience with the Gateway M520 laptop? How is it with SuSE and does it behave well with a dual boot setup?
you might try one of the livecd disks and boot it, just to see if it recognizes everything. I added a dual boot setup to my Dell XPS laptop without a problem. brand new out of the box I had to update drivers to get the wi-fi working with my netgear router.
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
Thanks Paul, Tried the 9.2 Live CD with good success. I am not downloading the 10.0 Live DVD to try also, which I believe will do well. I was interested in hearing owner's experiences, if there are any out there. I've not had many dealings with newer laptops and don't yet have all the specs on this one. I'm wanting to maybe switch the owner of this unit over to Linux if possible, but I didn't want any surprises for her or me in setting it up. :o) Overall, it seems that SuSE plays well with most laptops, new & old, but I also have read several problems here from laptop users/owners. regards, Lee
On Sat February 4 2006 10:28 am, BandiPat wrote:
Overall, it seems that SuSE plays well with most laptops, new & old, but I also have read several problems here from laptop users/owners.
sure, like I said, the issue I had with my brand-new laptop was the wireless card didn't want to connect to the new netgear router. once I installed the latest bios & driver updates for the wireless card, everything worked. that was a netgear 614 router & intel Pro 2915 wireless card. good luck, I'm sure it will work for you! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
BandiPat wrote:
Anyone using or had experience with the Gateway M520 laptop? How is it with SuSE and does it behave well with a dual boot setup?
Lots of good comments so far... I'll add a couple comments of my own. 1. Check the brand of your video card (nVidia, ATI, on-board) and be prepared with the correct driver. I have an older Gateway 600 with an ATI card. ATI's fglrx driver works fine, but you'll need to have it ready to go. 2. Try out your ethernet connection with the LiveCD. I have a new Dell 9150 with Gigabit ethernet, and the e1000 driver that ships with SuSE 10.0 wouldn't work. I had to get the source from Intel and compile it myself. (Hard to do if you've already installed SuSE 10.0 and don't have a second computer!) 3. If the laptop has a CD drive and not a DVD drive, remember that a number of packages are missing from the install CD set. You'll have to download any of those you need with YaST2. 4. I switched to SuSE from Slackware years ago for its laptop support. Other than a couple of minor glitches, SuSE has always worked well with my hardware. Hope this helps, Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics
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