mrrs wrote: > --- Andrew Rice <andrew at 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,