Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Erik Lane
You know, I bet that the best place to ask about a vendor to purchase a pre-installed Linux laptop with Labview would simply be National Instruments themselves. They might not sell it themself, but I bet they have a handle on their main customers and would have heard through support of who is

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 14:04 -0700, Ben Koenig wrote: > First, you can't upgrade the CPU on a laptop the way you expect. It > is > NOT a standard AM3+ socket. Check HP's documentation for that, I > can't > speak for their upgradeability. > > Second, you are grossly overthinking your question. > >

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Ben Koenig
First, you can't upgrade the CPU on a laptop the way you expect. It is NOT a standard AM3+ socket. Check HP's documentation for that, I can't speak for their upgradeability. Second, you are grossly overthinking your question. I don't know what Labview is. So I take the following steps: Q: Does

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sun, 2019-05-26 at 18:27 -0700, Ben Koenig wrote: > If nomodeset resolves your problems then you can assume that > everything will work. > > What you did was disable Kernel ModeSetting ( or KMS ) which allows > the radeon driver to kick in and enable full hardware acceleration > without X11.

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-26 Thread Ben Koenig
If nomodeset resolves your problems then you can assume that everything will work. What you did was disable Kernel ModeSetting ( or KMS ) which allows the radeon driver to kick in and enable full hardware acceleration without X11. You might notice that your resolution stays low during boot,

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-26 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
nomodeset kernel command line argument works like a charm, but I'm not accelerated because the graphics chip isn't supported... Does this matter to me? Maybe, maybe not. I should be able to run Microsoft Office or the latest Libreoffice no problem. I could say stick with 7 on this old beast,

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-26 Thread Ben Koenig
You aren't going to see any reasonable performance on this chip in Linux. It's from an older line using the radeon driver. Going forward all development is in the amdgpu driver from AMD. This only applies to recent and future cards. There are a huge number of outstanding issues that have not (and

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread King Beowulf
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

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread Bill Barry
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 5:34 PM Michael Christopher Robinson < mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > supports Labview, but I don't want to learn Suse as it is very > different from CentOS. An older version of CentOS likely won't support > Labview, so I cannot solve my problem by running older

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sat, 2019-05-25 at 16:13 +, Bill Barry wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:03 PM Michael Christopher Robinson < > mich...@robinson-west.com> 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

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread Bill Barry
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:03 PM Michael Christopher Robinson < mich...@robinson-west.com> 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

[PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
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