Marvin, Try it working with VMPlayer, let windows handle the fan, para yun lang silbe ng MS, fan blower :-)
thad On 2/14/06, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Calen Martin D. Legaspi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > I've been googling and I've found a lot of pages talking about the best > > distro for a laptop, but not the best laptop for linux in general, or > > the best laptop for a particular distro. Not that I'm in the market for > > a new laptop yet, but it's nice to know what to drool for. I'm looking > > at something very powerful. I also want a wide screen - at least 15.4" > > but 17" will be nice. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Hello Calen, > > I'm not sure if HP Compaq nx6125 will be one of your choices. Currently, > there are 2 minor problems that are known with that notebook and these are: > > [1] On-board WLAN chipset is Broadcom. So, in order to make use of your WLAN > in GNU/Linux, you need to make use of ndiswrapper. > > [2] The fans will not work by default due to a kernel bug. You can check it > by "cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/*" for more information. I'm not pretty sure if the > latest kernel already fixed that bug. > > Good luck! :) > > --- > MARVIN T. PASCUAL > E-mail: mpascual AT qsr DOT com DOT ph > Tel. No. +63 2 9287776 > Mobile No. +63 918 4115188 > Yahoo! Messenger ID: bintut > GNU/Linux User No. 247127 > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- sometimes thruth is stranger than fiction -bad religion- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
