Sometimes bad experiences can be helpful. Here is mine. I bought a Compaq Presario V6000 laptop a fews weeks after it hit the store shelves. It has a dual core AMD Turion64 processor. I thought I would be a BIG SHOT shot and tell all my friends, "Hey I'm running GNU/Linux, on my new laptop, not Windows!"
It turns out that I got SHOT down BIG time. It took a month before I was able to run the LCD at its native resolution because the Xorg nv driver didn't include my graphics card (nVidia GeForce Go 6150) and nVidia's binary driver still doesn't. My sound card only works partially. A friend who tests sound cards at his job tells me that ALSA doesn't yet have a driver and that a generic intel driver is loaded instead. Several SMP kernels I've tried make my laptop freeze so I'm don't get dual core support. Also my laptop can't suspend or hibernate. I'm sure that in time I'll get all these issues resolved--part of the problem is my own inexperience. But next time I buy it won't be anything too new. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
