On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 00:16 -0400, Philip Bellenoit wrote: > 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.
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