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?

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

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.

anyone using Asus EEE?

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

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

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

newer distro's run hot?

i'm thinking of getting one

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.........

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

Doesn't work on my Compaq Presario. ):

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

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

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

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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..

This post has been edited by irix: Sep 3 2008, 09:41 AM

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.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Sep 6 2008, 02:05 AM

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?

run 100% linux on my acer 4050 laptop

superb and marvelous

running on dell 6400 with ubuntu 8.04