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extremeJ

May 5 2008, 11:19 AM

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those of you who used opensuse, do you feel your laptop is hotter?
I have this "hot" problem.
If i left the power option to Dynamic, normal surfing will cause the system fan start running noisily. I have to set it to Powersave mode, but it is still hot.
BTW I'm using Compiz Fusion with ATI driver. Any thoughts?

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May 19 2008, 05:46 PM

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No matter what kind of distro you tried to used as long as you got the latest kernel-2.6.24 * and above..hehehe

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QUOTE(extremeJ @ May 5 2008, 11:19 AM)

those of you who used opensuse, do you feel your laptop is hotter?
I have this "hot" problem.
If i left the power option to Dynamic, normal surfing will cause the system fan start running noisily. I have to set it to Powersave mode, but it is still hot.
BTW I'm using Compiz Fusion with ATI driver. Any thoughts?

I'm using opensuse 10.3 with Compiz Fusion on Nvidia, on a Dell Vostro 1400. The tempreture is normal.
I use it for more than 8 hours a day, but of course in a aircon room.

zenix

May 25 2008, 03:45 AM

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anyone using Asus EEE?

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Jun 8 2008, 05:48 PM

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using ubuntu hardy on acer 4920g. its great! all drivers provided correctly and not having major problems using it.

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upgrading my protege now to 8.04 LTS....download is slow

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Jun 18 2008, 06:40 PM

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QUOTE(zenix @ May 25 2008, 03:45 AM)

anyone using Asus EEE?

Yeh.. i'm using EEEPC 701 with EEEPCLinuxOS...
Nice community... good distro...

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QUOTE(phyz @ May 19 2008, 05:46 PM)

No matter what kind of distro you tried to used as long as you got the latest kernel-2.6.24 * and above..hehehe

newer distro's run hot?

QUOTE(willgan @ Jun 18 2008, 06:40 PM)

Yeh.. i'm using EEEPC 701 with EEEPCLinuxOS...
Nice community... good distro...

i'm thinking of getting one

virushiOyo

Aug 3 2008, 02:06 AM

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dell is not the best laptop vendor but their machine is really best for linux..............................

but my i choose HP 6510b notebook and run ubuntu.........

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Aug 15 2008, 11:45 AM

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Which distro compatible with my laptop? I use Acer Aspire 4520. Sometime not all hardware working perfect when install linux. Eg: Hardy, so hard to configure wifi.

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Aug 16 2008, 01:15 PM

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QUOTE(UbuntuClient @ Aug 15 2008, 11:45 AM)

Which distro compatible with my laptop? I use Acer Aspire 4520. Sometime not all hardware working perfect when install linux. Eg: Hardy, so hard to configure wifi.

Try openSUSE 11.0 or Linux Mint Elyssa, both worked well on my Acer Aspire 1692

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Aug 25 2008, 03:34 PM

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Doesn't work on my Compaq Presario. ):

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Aug 27 2008, 06:57 PM

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planning to buy Compaq Presario V3839TU and dual boot with WinXP and Ubuntu or FC9.. anyone has tried using Linux in V3839TU?

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Aug 27 2008, 11:22 PM

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hi
I'm using ASUS A3a..Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 works fine with my lappy ..
just need to config the headphone jack manually ...by using Kmix..
some more the B'tooth connection doesn't work very well(using external adapter anyway)...thinks ASUS works well well with Ubuntu

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Aug 28 2008, 04:07 PM

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I just got my Acer Aspire One, if not mistaken its running on Linux Lite.
I am facing alot of probs with Linux, hope to get some assistance here.

1.) Why i cannot update firefox to version 3 (although finish the installation) ??
2.) Use wat player to play RMVB file ??
3.) I cant use www.rhbinvest.com features cos some stuff kenot be installed. (probably the program/plugin only for windows ??)

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Aug 28 2008, 04:22 PM

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QUOTE(ja50n @ Aug 28 2008, 04:07 PM)

I just got my Acer Aspire One, if not mistaken its running on Linux Lite.
I am facing alot of probs with Linux, hope to get some assistance here.

1.) Why i cannot update firefox to version 3 (although finish the installation) ??
2.) Use wat player to play RMVB file ??
3.) I cant use www.rhbinvest.com features cos some stuff kenot be installed. (probably the program/plugin only for windows ??)

for rmvb files, u can use RealPlayer for linux.. http://www.real.com/linux

Added on September 3, 2008, 9:41 amrunning Ubuntu 8.04 with Inspiron 1420.. everything works well.. Broadcom 4312 (rev 01) wireless card works after updating the kernel and enabling restricted drivers..

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Sep 6 2008, 02:04 AM

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I had alot of problems with my Sony Vaio running Hardy Heron.. Bought it a year ago, 1.66ghz C2D with the Intel 3945ABG, wireless and everything works fine (nm-applet) with Hardy but the main problem is with the BIOS that Sony laptops use. There's a bug report somewhere on the Ubuntu bugtracker regarding ACPI issues with Vaio laptops, I can't pull up the link but I remember everyone who had a Vaio (not model specific) were complaining about boot problems. Removing the 'quiet' and 'splash' tags from the GRUB menu would help with the problem but occasionally it would still freeze at boot I experienced it myself too, ACPI would 'timeout' randomly during boot and freeze the whole process.. forcing the user to manually restart the laptop a few times by holding down the power button.

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Sep 12 2008, 09:30 AM

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I'm having problem with my acer aspire 5051. I've been trying to install hardy heron but its stop in busybox. I had tried fedora,suse and pclinux also.Same problem occur. Any suggestion?

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Sep 15 2008, 12:55 AM

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run 100% linux on my acer 4050 laptop

superb and marvelous

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Sep 15 2008, 11:32 PM

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running on dell 6400 with ubuntu 8.04

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