On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 19:26 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > 1. Over the years, we have been quite fond of Athlon-based (both 32- and > > 64-bit) HP notebooks. Since about one year or so ago, we have not had any > > problem running Solaris Express on any of our HP notebooks. The only > > problem is wireless. Next time around we will be paying attention to > > getting only those with Atheros card. All our notebooks are with ATI or > > nVidia video card. > > > > > I use SXDE on my HP Compaq nx6325, works pretty well > It's got an Turion64 with a gig of RAM > Tech specs here: > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-64295-321838-89315-1849082.html > > These are the things that do _not_ work: > > 1) Fingerprint recognition (does not work in linux as well) > 2) Media Card reader (works in linux) > 3) Volume / Multimedia keys (works in linux) > 4) Wireless (Broadcom-based , works in linux have _not_ tried out > ndiswrapper in SXDE) > > With linux i mean Ubuntu 7.10 amd64 > > > I really have no complaints with SXDE on this box. > Since i use the laptop mainly in office, i really have not compared the > battery backup in SXDE wrt Linux or win xp.
The laptop I have is a dv6209tx - Nvidia graphics, Core 2 Duo 1.83Ghz processor - works incredibly well. The only disappointing thing is the non-support for the webcam which is supported in Linux. Solaris doesn't currently support firmware uploading for UVC cams. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
