Re: [opensuse] Dell Notebook

On Friday 28 September 2007 21:20, Richard Creighton wrote:
I have a friend that has a Dell notebook that is a Windows holdout.
However, he keeps seeing my setup at home and listening to me tout SuSE
and he sent me a question recently that I simply can't answer. Will it
work on his machine?
This is the information he sent me:


The info on this machine is: Dell Inspiron 1521 - AMD Turion X2 1.6 Ghz
processor, 2 Gb RAM, 160 Gb HD, Sigma Tel high def audio codec, ATI
Radeon X1270 video, Broadcomm wireless 802.11b/g. The SUSE 10.2 Live
dvd had everything working except the sound and the wireless. I was
wondering if anyone in the SUSE forums had this configuration and had
everything working under 10.2?


Well, you'll need to watch for the broadcom wireless. I don't know why the
LiveDVD didn't pick up the sound cards, but that can be simply because it
didn't sense it.

Generally, Dell laptops are well-suited for SUSE. I have one (older) Dell and
have friends with Dell laptops. I'm currently writing on an HP/Compaq laptop
while sitting next to my home-brew SUSE desktop.



Any information about how well 10.2 in particular performs on the above
hardware ESPECIALLY multimedia.

Broadcom may be supported, but not included in the live dvd.

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Broadcom_(BCM4306)_WLAN_Installation_under_SUSE

As for the Sigmatel...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=559548

http://michaeleberhart.net/linux/opensuse/10_2/

http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/SuSE_notes/node168.html

HTH!

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