5 Jul
2006
5 Jul
'06
12:05 p.m.
Hello
I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a announce of the Asus Z9201T. with
AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
100GB HD
8x Double Layer DVD Burner
15.4" Screen
10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
4 in 1 Card-Reader
Bluetooth
Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
I don't know, if linux runs on it.
www.tuxmobile.org hasn't a reference.
What do you think?
Al
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12:37 p.m.
Dif you have a look on http://www.linux-on-laptops.com?
Your exact reference is not present on the page but some aproaching modele should bring
eventually some help...:D
M.
Alex.Loes(a)lll.lu wrote: Hello
I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a announce of the Asus Z9201T. with
AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
100GB HD
8x Double Layer DVD Burner
15.4" Screen
10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
4 in 1 Card-Reader
Bluetooth
Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
I don't know, if linux runs on it.
www.tuxmobile.org hasn't a reference.
What do you think?
Al
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2:32 p.m.
Hi Al,
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:05:08PM +0200, Alex.Loes(a)lll.lu wrote:
Hello
I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a announce of the Asus Z9201T.
with
AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
100GB HD
8x Double Layer DVD Burner
15.4" Screen
10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
4 in 1 Card-Reader
Bluetooth
Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
I don't know, if linux runs on it.
www.tuxmobile.org hasn't a reference.
What do you think?
With the reference, you should be able to google for the
components, and check if they individually run on Linux,
and especially on 64-bit Linux. I'd guess there might be
surprises with the WLAN, possibly the card reader. Also,
does this model use SATA already? If so, there might be
issues booting from older distributions' install media.
If you can have a look at the actual hardware, ask if you
may boot it using a Knoppix or Kubuntu Dapper Live CD,
this way you could quickly find out about possible issues.
The official description at [1] is unfortunately very
unprecise as to the innards...
Greetings, Eric
[1] http://www.amd-notebooks.de/produkte_detail.php?item=8
4:11 p.m.
Hey there,
> I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a
announce of the Asus Z9201T.
> AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
> 100GB HD
> 8x Double Layer DVD Burner
> 15.4" Screen
> 10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
> 4 in 1 Card-Reader
> Bluetooth
> Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
> NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
It sure looks kool !
gforce, cpu, hdd are supported for sure.
ethernet, should be.
dvd burner should work.
and check if they individually run on Linux,
and especially on 64-bit Linux.
why especially on 64bit linux ?
I'm not aware of any common and recent hardware which doesn't run on 64bit.
Also,
does this model use SATA already? If so, there might be
issues booting from older distributions' install media.
From the site you mentioned below...no :-)
Just
use a recent version, and you should have no problems.
A problem one might encounter too, is a buggy bios or acpi implementation.
I know of some recent acer models which refuse to boot a linux cd with default
settings....
But again....use the latest installer cd you can find, which should solve such
problems, or make it easier to circumvent...
--
regards,
Georges Toth
4:42 p.m.
Hi Georges,
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:11:04PM +0200, Georges Toth wrote:
man drivers
There's quite some problematic drivers said to work in 32-bit mode,
but not on 64-bit mode. Certain WLAN drivers come to mind... which
is certainly a risk with brand-new notebooks.
Greetings, Eric
and check if
they individually run on Linux,
and especially on 64-bit Linux.
why especially on 64bit linux ?
I'm not aware of any common and recent hardware which doesn't run on 64bit.
4:53 p.m.
Hey Eric !
man drivers
man ?
There's quite some problematic drivers said to
work in 32-bit mode,
but not on 64-bit mode. Certain WLAN drivers come to mind... which
is certainly a risk with brand-new notebooks.
Right....hmmm
I can just tell from my experience, and crawling on forums...and that is that
everything should run.
My wifi stick works f.ex....the driver is opensource.
madwifi should work fine.... intel stuff is also reported to work AFAIK.
dunno about atheros, buffalo etc though, but there exist drivers, they are
just quite new and most probably not shipped with any distro.
wlan, bluetooth, card-reader (bios/acpi) are probably the only things which
could cause problems I'd say
--
regards,
Georges Toth
8 Jul
8 Jul
12:54 p.m.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Asus & Abit check all their
products with Linux...
(would like to know about Acer)
perhaps someone can confirm !?
Serge
Alex.Loes(a)lll.lu wrote:
Hello
I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a announce of the Asus Z9201T. with
AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
100GB HD
8x Double Layer DVD Burner
15.4" Screen
10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
4 in 1 Card-Reader
Bluetooth
Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
I don't know, if linux runs on it.
www.tuxmobile.org hasn't a reference.
What do you think?
Al
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