[ale] Linux on new laptops

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:13 -0400, Cor van Dijk wrote:

> >
> Two weeks ago I bought a hp pavilion zv6000 at fry's for about 1450. It 
> has 1 Gb ram, 2.4 Gb CPU, 100 Gb hd and a dvdwriter. The first one was 
> DOA, the replacement (they tried to screw me by replacing it with a 
> refurbished one!) has worked so far. It has no floppy drive, no serial 
> port, but has all sorts of things I have never heard of, but will 
> eventually figure out.
> It of course has redmond stuff. It happily accepted SuSE9.3 after a 
> little bit of a struggle.
> I guess you guys with all the DSL and ISDN stuff would not be interested 
> in modem talk,
> but I have a story there, contact me if you are interested. The mouse is 
> horrible, no port for ps/2 mouse either, unlike my old Sony laptop.

USB mouse is what it wants. My Fedora stuff sees them and "Just Works".
> 
> SuSE9.3 professional informed me that I was installing a 32 bit OS on a 
> 64 bit system, but went ahead anyway and so far worked ok. The 64 bit 
> SUSE9.3 which I tried to install hung when formatting (or maybe I was 
> impatient, anyway, after an hour I had enough); need help on this one. I 
> leave it at this for the time being.
> Cor van Dijk
> 

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