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From: Thomas Overgaard on 12 Sep 2009 07:35

JohnF wrote :

> Most machines I've tried nowadays run linux out-of-the-box
> without much trouble,

My old desktop computer was thunderstruck so I bought a "new" Acer M3201
because I had it cheap from a showroom. It came with two problems:

1): The on-board LAN was something based on a marvell chipset and the
sky2 module didn't do me any good. So I disabled on-board LAN i the BIOS
and plugged in a cheap 1G netcard from Ovislink and it worked out of the
box.

2): The graphic card was a ATI Radeon HD 4650 and it gave me some bad
feelings already at boottime because the three tuxes at the framebuffer
had their colors reversed. In the CLI it looked OK but when i started X
the colors was reversed again. I managed to install the fglrx driver
from ATI almost blindfolded and it cured the color problem.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.
From: Dario Niedermann on 14 Sep 2009 00:25
JohnF <john(a)please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:

> Most machines I've tried nowadays run linux out-of-the-box
> without much trouble, but occasionally needing extra drivers
> for not-so-standard stuff like atheros-based wireless.


My laptop has an Atheros wifi card and I can report that it has always
worked flawlessly with Linux. Out of the box with several distros, or
just by adding the madwifi driver (which, however, is now officially
superseded by the ath5k module bundled with the Linux kernel).


--
~> cat /etc/*-{version,release}|head -n1 && uname -moprs|fold -sw72
Slackware 12.2.0
Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
GNU/Linux
From: JohnF on 14 Sep 2009 17:54
Dario Niedermann <M8R-cthw2f(a)spamherelots.com> wrote:
> JohnF <john(a)please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>> Most machines I've tried nowadays run linux out-of-the-box
>> without much trouble, but occasionally needing extra drivers
>> for not-so-standard stuff like atheros-based wireless.
>
> My laptop has an Atheros wifi card and I can report that it has always
> worked flawlessly with Linux. Out of the box with several distros, or
> just by adding the madwifi driver (which, however, is now officially
> superseded by the ath5k module bundled with the Linux kernel).

Yeah, I needed madwifi when I installed linux on my samsung nc10
netbook last year, and that's what brought atheros to mind when I
wrote the above paragraph.
--
John Forkosh ( mailto: j(a)f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )
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