mrrs wrote:
--- Andrew Rice andrew@nams.net wrote:
hey all...just curious if anyone has dealt with any issues regarding installing centos x86_64 on a laptop running with an AMD turion 64 bit processor -- Andrew Rice Jr
Funny you should mention that - I just went through this and pestered the list about this very subject about a week ago. I have an HP Pavillion with an ATI card, and the video to the laptop display blanked in X. I had to use an external monitor to do the install. Once the install was complete, the video worked in VESA mode.
Also the hard drive is very slow - there does not seem to be a way to enable DMA mode. Someone else on the list had this same problem.
Did you try running a more bleeding edge kernel to see if things got better?
It would seem that the "easy" way out for a power sipping unix laptop with decent graphics and processor speeds right now is a Macbook Pro. 8-)
Cheers,