On Saturday 14 August 2004 16:37, Mark A. Taff wrote:
I am looking to buy an HP zd7260us. Just yesterday I tried the original SuSE 9.1 live-eval cd (not the May 2004 updated one) in a zd7240us (closest they had in stock) at Circuit City. It booted and worked fine (generally), with a couple of things to note.
- The Broadcom wireless Ethernet card was detected, but it didn't seem to be working.
- The soundcard was detected, but again it didn't seem to be working. This I think could be fixed with some tweaking after a real install.
- X may require some configuration tweaking to set the resolution correctly. The live-eval does not support the wide-screen, so the display is stretched left to right.
- The scroll "wheel" on the glidepoint did not work as such, but rather as just extra room on the glidepoint.
- The Nvidia chips are supported.
- HP's proprietary "media center" port most likely will not do anything in linux (though I have no evidence of this, just suspicion).
- Likewise, I am unsure about the flash card reader.
I _really_ like the widescreen, and the 10-key pad. I am considering buying it even with the Broadcom wireless, in the slimmest of hopes some brilliant kernel hacker will be able to get it working, even without Broadcom's help. Also note that the built-in 10/100 Ethernet is Realtek, and should work just fine.
For wireless, I am going to try the PCMCIA D-Link cards, as their wireless PCI cards work fine in 9.1 (though not in 9.0)
Later today I plan on trying the updated 9.1 live-eval in an actual zd7260us (and then probably buying it).
Regards,
Mark
FWIW: I have a ze5570us & the Broadcom works w/ndiswrapper & the Broadcom drivers/inf file from Windows. As for the rest, I cannot comment. I only know that w/some work I got SuSE 9 Pro to work on this box --including the internal modem-- but 9.1 would not work properly & neither would the internal modem ...or even the external one, for that matter. -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio