Hello Ahmed
You don't give us much information about the hardware on this laptop (ie.
CPU, network, etc), but I have (I think) a similar notebook.
Mine is an HP Pavilion dv6746tx which has an Intel core 2 duo CPU T5550 @
1.83 GHz, 2GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card, Intel Pro
wireless 3945ABG, Realtek RTL8101E PCI Express ethernet, Broadcom
bluetooth, R5C592 sd/sdio/mmc/ms/mspro host adapter, and TSSTcorp
lightscribe CDDVDW- TS-L632N burner.
Everything works well under Fedora 9 basically "straight out of the
box". The webcam, inbuilt microphones and "multifunction
keys"work as well. The only thing I have noticed with Fedora 9 is
that the total battery time does not appear to work (this may be a setup
problem on my side), although on Fedora 8 it worked without any
tweaks.
If you are worried about the NVidia graphics, you can go one of two
ways :-
1. Either add the rpm.livna.org repo and wait for them to update the
drivers for your kernel, or
2. download the source code from NVidia and compile it yourself whenever
there is a kernel upgrade.(you will need to at least install the kernel
headers and a compiler for this to work)
Hope this helps.
At 04:53 AM 16/08/2008, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
Any experiences with Linux HP dv6700se ? Seems to me like a really solid
laptop, and good value, but
linux-laptop.net does not mention
it. I wanna be sure it's fedora compatible ?
What's the current state with nVidia cards under Linux ? Is it a matter
of waiting for a few weeks till their driver catches up with the kernel,
or is their drivers quality getting bad lately ? Should I deliberately
avoid getting this laptop, coz it has a nVidia card ?
Thanks a lot
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Mustafa