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. 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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq