[ale] Averatec

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim -

I think it's the V2565.  We were looking at something at about the same 
price point at Fry's but it really would have needed more RAM.  It has 
AMD64 Gentoo on it right now; xorg and KDE have compiled but are not 
configured. 

I don't know about the screen yet, but the screen on my eMachines M6805 
(which I've been running Gentoo on for nearly two years now) is a 
similarly oblong 1280 x 800 and it works just fine with the right 
xorg.conf, so I'm not anticipating any trouble.  I did note that the ATI 
video is a shared-RAM deal, and the default setting of 128MB was taking 
quite a big whack out of the putative 512MB RAM, so I backed it down to 
64MB in the BIOS (and could probably make it 32MB w/o issue).  The 
display is one of these newfangled high-contrast ones and it looks 
really sharp.

Jeff

Jim wrote:

>What model?  I have a V2310 that died trying to install SUse 9.3 64 bit, 
>had to install 32 bit.  I've never gotten the wireless to work.  
>Ndiswrapper installs OK and looks good, but will dhcp won't pick up an 
>address.   Ndiswrapper -l shows the bcmwl5 driver  present and  the 
>hardware present, but nothing shows up in ifconfig.  Yast shows the HP 
>(ETH-ID-...) (wired device), an entry for "Ethernet network" "wlan0" 
>"dhcp"  and an entry "BNC" wlan-id-00-66..." "DHCP".  However ifconfig 
>-a only lists eth0, sit0 and lo.  I have no idea how to make this beast 
>work.
>
>Also I've never found the magic for the display.  It works OK at 
>1024x768 but it's a bit elongated, even though the monitor mode is in 
>the 16/10 ratio.  Round things look a little flat. 
>
>Sound took a while to get working.  I had to turn up the PCM control.
>
>So if you've a similar laptop and are more successful than I was, please 
>share the bounty.
>
>Jim.
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>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>Microcenter has a Compaq AMD64 Turion laptop that we just picked up - 
>>it's midway through a Gentoo install now.  The onboard wifi may not be 
>>issue-free - seems to have either a third-party driver or ndiswrapper 
>>solution. 
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>>Jeff
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>>Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:37, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>>Wow, a sempron 3000+, I'll bet you can cook eggs on the cover when it's 
>>>>on but closed. :)  I'll bet the thing is noisy for a laptop.  Has to 
>>>>have some substantial cooling.
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>>>When doing a search on the Internet on this unit one of the complaints
>>>was heat.  Also another one was turn around on repairs.  Unfortunately
>>>if I need my laptop fixed I need it fast so I should just stick to name
>>>brands like HP.
>>>
>>>Fry's had a small toshiba that was a notebook but much smaller.  Maybe a
>>>7" screen.  I liked it but it was $2100.  Amazing price for something so
>>>small.  It was a pad so you could use a stylus to write on the screen.  
>>>
>>>I'm thinking maybe a DV6000 HP that has a 15.4" screen.  Whatever I buy
>>>will have Windows immediately erased and replaced by FC4.
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