[64studio-devel] 64Studio on an AMD64 X2 laptop

[Gustin Johnson]

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I have a presario v3000 (V3010CA) with a Turion X2.  I would recommend
waiting for a little while as there are some issues still to be worked out.

It has an Nvidia 6150 which works with the nvidia binary drivers.
Onboard sound is not yet directly supported by ALSA but works fine with
some patches to ALSA (not hard but probably more effort than its worth
for most).

Suspend to RAM works quite well.

The memory card reader is flaky (different controller from the one in
Daniel and Free's laptops).

Onboard ethernet works fine, the wireless card is useless, even with the
 ndiswrapper driver.

Basically the latest MCP51 and MCP61 chipsets from NVidia can work, but
are not going to be as reliable as you would like, at least not out of
the box.

Ben Loftis wrote:
> Hmm, after some research, I think I'll stay off the cutting edge for
> now, and wait a few months instead.  By then there should be several
> good Turion X2 options available.
> 
> -Ben
> 
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>>> The external VGA port is very important to me, thanks for raising the
>>> issue.  What exact model do you have?
>>
>> I have the ze2000 series (exact model is ze2355ea). Single core
>> Turion, ATI Radeon 200M video. VGA out works perfectly, but has to be
>> activated (once only) in Windows, as far as I can tell. It's some kind
>> of software switch activated by the F4 key, not a true OS-independent
>> hardware switch like you used to get on Toshiba laptops. So I shrank
>> the Windows partition to 10GB rather than deleting it.
>>
>> Free has the zv5000 series (model zv5464ea) with a single core Athlon
>> 64 and nVidia GeForce 440 video. Nicer screen on those, but I'm not
>> sure if he uses the external video out.
>>
>> Apparently, there is a driver for the memory card reader now:
>>
>> http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=TI_FlashMedia_xx12/xx21_driver
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
> 
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