I have inspiron 15r with amd 6470m and debian unstable. Im using gnome shell and i have only one problem fglrx doesnt work with gnome and im using x.org driver, its working very well. Em 16/05/2014 06:54, "Chris Evans" <chrish...@psyctc.org> escreveu:
> I've found the recent discussions very helpful. My previous job used to > insist on Dell machines and I had good experiences of installing Debian on > Dell Latitude E6500 machines but then I had to buy myself a machine and got > a Toshiba having misread some information on the web suggesting that > Toshiba were linux friendly. Neither Squeeze nor Wheezy have worked nicely > with the machine at all though I can't find any hardware errors so, as it's > ageing a bit now too so I can justify reinstalling Windoze on it and > passing it to someone, I want to replace it but this time I want something > that will play well with Debian. I want reliability, quite a lot of > storage (1Tb), I'm fine with a 15/16 inch screen but I'd like quite a bit > of CPU power and RAM as I do a bit of statistical work (in R: mostly > wonderful!) but also because I find myself forced to keep a VirtualBox VM > open most of the time for the Windoze dependencies I haven't been able to > shed (Orifice as compatibility is hopeless in both OO and LO and I can't > force colleagues to shift!), InDesign (too many templates that I haven't > time or skill to replicate in Scribus) and SPSS and AMOS). [I'm sure I'm > not the only person on this list cursing this sort of enforced dependency!] > > So the questions: > 1) does anyone have any experience of installing Wheezy on the Inspiron > 15R? If so, am I right to assume it'll work OK? > 2) would you recommend 32 or 64 bit Wheezy (I don't usually hit the memory > limits of R in 32 bit so I've stayed on 32 bit so far but I'll want to > install 64bit Windoze 8.1 in a VM so perhaps it has to be 64 bit?) > 3) How fast does it feel, in particular ... > 4) ... has anyone got 64 bit Windoze 8.1 installed in a VirtualBox VM and > does it run OK? Fast enough in memory/disc/CPU hogs like orifice, SPSS & > InDesign? > 5) If I use the Dell to create a system backup (of the Windoze 8.1 > recovery partition presumably) will I be able to restore this into a VM? > (I'm very reluctant to pay twice for Windoze but Dell, at least in the UK, > don't sell the Inspiron other than with Windoze.) > > Many thanks in anticipation of advice/experiences, > > Chris > > -- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/2034560997.7028805.1400233259904.javamail.zim...@psyctc.org > >
