Hi All,
I'm considering buying a new laptop, which should be setup as a dual-boot machine. Does anyone has experiences with any of the following models running Fedora? All have CoreDuo chips and should be using the Nvidia-driver from livna
Dell precision M90 Dell precision M6300 Dell XPS M1710 HP Compaq 8710p
Thanks, Jouk
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On 11/2/07, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl wrote:
Hi All,
I'm considering buying a new laptop, which should be setup as a dual-boot machine. Does anyone has experiences with any of the following models running Fedora? All have CoreDuo chips and should be using the Nvidia-driver from livna
Dell precision M90 Dell precision M6300 Dell XPS M1710 HP Compaq 8710p
Thanks, Jouk
Bush : All votes are equal but some votes are more equal than others.
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Jouk Jansen
joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl
Technische Universiteit Delft tttttttttt uu uu ddddddd Kavli Institute of Nanoscience tttttttttt uu uu dd dd Nationaal centrum voor HREM tt uu uu dd dd Lorentzweg 1 tt uu uu dd dd 2628 CJ Delft tt uu uu dd dd Nederland tt uu uu dd dd tel. 31-15-2782272 tt uuuuuuu ddddddd
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Dell XPS is fully supported by fedora, and works fine.
Jacob Jansen wrote: : I'm considering buying a new laptop, which should be setup as a dual-boot : machine. : Does anyone has experiences with any of the following models running Fedora? : All have CoreDuo chips and should be using the Nvidia-driver from livna : : Dell precision M90 <snip>
I run FC6 on an M70 with the 1920x1200 display without any problems. I see no reason why F7 wouldn't run on it. I chose the M70 (3 years ago) because it had Nvidia video technology in it. I suppose, from your remarks, that the M90 does too. I run the Closed source nvidia driver and it works flawlessly. One caveat: I needed to use the TwinView features of the driver to use the laptop with a digital projector. I never got the usual "CRT/LCD" button to work. But with Twinview, using a digital projector works well.
When I first installed Linux on it 3 years ago neither Hibernate nor Suspend worked. The video driver and/or some other hardware would always lock up on Resume. Suspend (to ram) is still a problem, by pm-hibernate works fine and with modern BIOS and kernels, is fast enough that I don't feel it like I used to with my circa 2000 Dell Inspiron which took 2-3 minutes to hibernate.
_That_ would be my one concern with the M90. Hibernate/Suspend is such a tricky hardware-dependent business that I can't make predictions here. If it's important (as it is to me) find out for sure before you buy. I didn't---and I suffered for a year!
Dean