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
On 2/24/06, 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
See the other current thread called 'Which version of Centos 4.2' or something of that sort.
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--- 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.
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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,
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.
get the ati drivers from their website - they will work fine.
also, w.r.t the issue of the external port being made the default - you should be able to poke in the bios of the machine to make lcd the default. Alternatively, the keyboard combination to enable / disable external display should bring the display back onto your local lcd.
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.
there was a fix posted sometime back, check for that.
Am away to fosdem/2006 at the moment - will be back in town in a few days, if you have not had a fix by then, let me know and I'll post the hdd issue fix.
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