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From: Longfellow on 11 Sep 2009 02:08 You can certainly buy a firebreathing machine for less money that what one would spend in upgrading CPU, mobo, etc, etc, etc. But would it be Slackware compatible? Here's what I'm looking at: HP Pavilion p6112p-b PC Bundle from Staples for $830US and change. Which has... Intel Pentium E6300 Dual Core processor 8 Gb DDR2 RAM SATA HD 1Tb SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology Intel GMA 3100 integrated graphics It's got a monitor and keyboard and stuff, of course. It's probably too much to ask anyone reading here whether or not this product with arguably meaningless specs will have problems with Slackware, so maybe I should ask where I should seek answers. Is there a resource that can satisfy these questions, and if so, would someone be good enough to point me in that direction? The reason I posted here is that I don't want to have to use tweaked kernels and drivers and such just to make this all work. Thanks for reading. Longfellow
From: Eef Hartman on 11 Sep 2009 03:53 Longfellow wrote: > Intel Pentium E6300 Dual Core processor Make that: Core 2 Duo processor at 1.86 GHz (so a rather slow one). The Core 2 series are NOT Pentium's anymore, I think the Pentium D wss the last one in that line. > Intel GMA 3100 integrated graphics You probably should put another graphics board in, this one DOES work but sure isn't the fastest one around. For only text and low-res 2D graphics it will be enough, as long as you don't plan on using openGL applications. HP should have a low-coast NVidia Quadro adaptor as an option. Knowing HP, the motherboard probably has one of the Intel ICH series chipsets, which are well supported in the more recent kernels. You didn't mention anything about the network adaptor, but up till the HP dc6900 we didn't have any problems with the HP on-board ones (and even that machine is supported with 2.6.27 or above kernels). So in general, I don't see any reason why Slackware 12.2 or 13.0 would have any problems with this machine. -- Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT
From: Longfellow on 12 Sep 2009 00:03 On 2009-09-11, Longfellow <not(a)this.address> wrote: > You can certainly buy a firebreathing machine for less money that what > one would spend in upgrading CPU, mobo, etc, etc, etc. But would it be > Slackware compatible? <snip> Thanks to all for the info. I have come to the same conclusion: I should do better than what I described. I've got more questions, but I'll do the RTFM routine first. Thanks again. Longfellow
From: bc20 on 12 Sep 2009 00:46 On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:08:17 -0500, Longfellow wrote: > You can certainly buy a firebreathing machine for less money that what > one would spend in upgrading CPU, mobo, etc, etc, etc. But would it be > Slackware compatible? > I'm with everyone else in going with nVidia for a graphics card. My new laptop, Toshiba P505-8945, has ATI hardware. I love everything else about it, but getting ATI up and running was a MPITFA! I couldn't tell you how many times I saw the WSOD before finally getting it up and going (accellerated). And their website sucks. Made the mistake of installing it "directly" and not Slackbuilding it for easy removal and their website doesn't even bother telling you anything useful -- like how to uninstall fglrx, which I needed to do during the course of T/S'ing. Eventually found the script to remove it in /usr/share/ati/ by locate'ing and grep'ing. Bastards.
From: bc20 on 12 Sep 2009 00:48 On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:46:13 +0000, bc20 wrote: > Toshiba P505-8945 Er, Toshiba P505-S8945 It would be perfect if it had nVidia hardware.
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