<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">You know, I have this Dell XPS laptop that everything just works, too. I loaded Mandriva 2008 on it and everything was there. Just had to download the firmware for the wireless but that happened automatically when I opened the configuration manager to set it up. It has a 2G Centrino, 2G memory, 100G drive and nVidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra running 1920x1200. The thing ROCKS. Unfortunately, it's owned by the company I work for. It even has bluetooth in it. I just have to figure out how to use bluetooth. It even does the right things when I close the lid or suspend to disk.<br><br>I know Pete hates Dell laptops but this one is pretty nice.<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Bob<br><div> </div>--<br>"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the
earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."<br> --Leonardo da Vinci<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz@gmail.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:50:00 AM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] POS BIOS<br><br>
I'll tell you what I like for linux laptops-- Thinkpads! I've had 4 of<br>them and every bit of hardware worked and the bios is like a desktop<br>bios. My latest is a Z61m and I even got the fingerprint scanner to<br>work.<br><br>Just my $.02<br><br>Happy Holidays,<br><br>Dennis<br><br>On Dec 14, 2007 9:30 AM, Robert Meyer <<a ymailto="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com" href="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com">meyer_rm@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I don't have any help for this but would you mind letting us know
what kind<br>> of laptop this thing is so that we can all avoid them?<br>><br>> Cheers!<br>><br>> Bob<br>> --<br>> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth
with your<br>> eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will
always long<br>> to return."<br>> --Leonardo da Vinci<br>><br>><br>><br>> ----- Original Message ----<br>> From: Cyber Source <<a ymailto="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com" href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>><br>> To: <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:21:42 AM<br>> Subject: [nflug] POS BIOS<br>><br>> Ok, gotta throw one out for some help.<br>> Long story short is, I have a laptop that I just purchased for a<br>> client, has nvidia and runs perfect with Ubuntu Gutsy except for 1<br>> little (kinda huge) problem.<br>> The bios that ships with most laptops lately , COMPLETELY SUCK (I<br>> hate phoenix). There is absolutely NOTHING in the bios to help
control<br>> acpi or apic. My problem is that I have NO SOUND unless I boot with
the<br>> kernel boot option of "acpi=off", then all works perfect except I
have<br>> no battery monitoring, which on a laptop is pretty huge, if this was
a<br>> desktop, it would be no biggie (not sure if it would affect ups<br>> monitoring). I notice that I have ERR=1 from /proc/interrupts. I have<br>> tried all sorts of combinations of boot options, including "noapic<br>> nolapic pnpbios=off" and I forget the rest I've tried, nothing works<br>> except for turning off acpi completely and then no battery monitor.
I've<br>> looked into apm but can't recompile the kernel because then all the<br>> other "restricted" packages won't work with the custom kernel and
that<br>> option is basically a pain in the ass. I feel this is probably
related<br>> to the ERR=1 from interrupts but I can't seem to clear this, it only<br>> gets worse with other boot options I've tried.<br>> Does anyone know how to reroute irq's or make them behave better (yes<br>> I've tried pci=routeirq)?<br>> Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?<br>> Currently my work around is 2 grub boot stanza's, one is to have
sound<br>> which runs "acpi=off" and the other is to have no sound and
everything<br>> else works (battery monitor), without the "acpi=off" option.<br>> Any help please? TIA<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug" target="_blank">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>><br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo!
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