-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a new one, that is really cool (in temp) Nvidia video card, SATA hard drive, all things that should make for a smoking laptop. Sadly when using an SMP kernel there are random hard locks. The problem has something to do with APIC + AMD + some IRQ funkyness (that was APIC _not_ ACPI). The built in broadcomm is useless, even with ndiswrapper (the broadcomm in my last laptop worked with ndiswrapper, not so this time).
It will run memtest or a non SMP kernel for days (ie. it does not lock up, indicating kernel issues). Now that AMD is tainted with the evil of ATI, I think I will switch back to Intel. Mark Carlson wrote: > On 10/27/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Just as an aside, I used to have a Presario 2000 series laptop, and I >> was very happy with it. Stay far away from the AMD based 3000 series. >> Far, far, far, far away. > > :-( thanks for telling me that now... a year and half after buying my > amd based R3470US. > > Indeed, stay far, far, away. My first one couldn't operate in > temperatures below (approx.) 20 degrees C (LCD would crap out.) I > sent it back to future shack and got a replacement, but the touch pad > is horrible! Also, the ethernet died sometime, I assume from > overheating, since it is right beside the cpu fan and the jack itself > is too hot to touch under full cpu load. Aside from those problems, > it really doesn't like to have Linux on it (hidden PCI stuff, cardbus > problems, dunno about the video card.) > > If anyone else happens to have been cursed by one, you can get help here: > LinuxR3000 -- Linux on AMD64 laptops (Compaq and HP) mailing list - > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > the R3000 wiki - http://prinsig.se/weekee/index.php/Table_of_Contents > > -Mark > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQl9swRXgH3rKGfMRAjstAJwOJ1t+nlINl0rC11M7ncOwzUmv4ACgmVY1 CLGFmt+psTQp4c0kn92MPdE= =R9tj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
