On 5/25/19 9:03 AM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > It has been suggested that I go to opensuse. I don't want to, Labview > works with CentOS 7 and there would be a learning curve to go from > Redhat style Linux to Suse style Linux. What is the video card in this > laptop, is it removeable, and is there a laptop form factor alternative > that can replace it which Linux supports out of the box? >
Any recent linux is well supported on the G62. There are quite a number of hardware variants and you did not provide any information on your particular model. My response here is based on: https://www.support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02497777/ The GPU is part of the motherboard chipset; it is not removable. HP service manual is here: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02641795 > Looks like fglrx is the proprietary driver for the stock video card, > but it requires 32 bit libc where I don't know how that will affect > things considering this is a 64 bit laptop. How do I even get fglrx > installed? Do I need to boot in rescue mode? If the linux you choose as a 4.19+ kernel, and depending on the specific AMD GPU, X.org and Mesa has fully functional drivers. fglrx is dead, don't use it, and the proprietary AMD GPU drivers may not be needed, or sufficiently supported. Information on the RV620 graphics core (assuming you have the Radeon HD4250: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_4000_series https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ To use the latest AMD Catalyst™ 13.1 you will need to install and run a fairly old version of X.org and linux kernel. https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-hd/ati-mobility-radeon-hd-4000-series/ati-mobility-radeon-hd-4250 > > Also, I'm planning on using VirtualBox to run Windows 7 on top of > CentOS. Do I have enough CPU power to do this? I have a dual core > Athlon II and 8 gigs of ram installed. This laptop AMD CPU supports virtualization. That said, all of the CPUs for the G62 are slow. Instead of Virtualbox, you may have better performance with WINE instead: https://www.winehq.org/ although support so far is a bit sketchy: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4556 -Ed
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