Re: New Laptop on the Way
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/05/05
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Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:31:30 -0400
On Wed, 04 May 2005 00:59:50 -0400, Garglemonster wrote:
> On 2005.5.3, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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>> I doubt you'll have any problems with the ATI graphics, ATI is well
>> supported. The thing to worry about is wireless. I have the
>> R3000. The R3000 uses the Broadcom chip. There is no native Linux
>> support for Broadcom. I got it to work with Ndiswrapper once but
>> it's a pain in the ass plus it limits you to running a 32 bit
>> kernel.
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> Not to say that the Broadcom situation is anything but horrendous, but
> this a laptop, right? Do you have enough memory in it to make a 64bit
> kernel meaningful?
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>> If the 4000 is still using the Broadcom chip then order it without
>> the built in wireless support and buy a 3rd party card that uses a
>> chipset with native Linux support.
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> That's good advice.
I mostly run mine in 32 bit mode because I use Win4Lin which also requires
a 32 bit kernel. However the last time I tried to install Ndiswrapper it
broke the Nvidia binary drivers. The fault is really Nvidia's, their
drivers have become incredibly fragile. By broke I mean that the
Nvidia installer doesn't seem able to produce a driver that will load
with the kernel that was touched by Ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper isn't the
only thing that breaks the Nvidia drivers. I just installed Mandriva
2005LE on one of my machines. Mandriva installed the Nvidia drivers just
fine, they worked with the virgin installation. However when I built a
custom Win4Lin kernel I couldn't get the Nvidia installer to build a
driver for the new kernel. With FC3 I have no trouble building a custom
kernel and then doing an Nvidia install as long as I also don't also try
to use Ndiswrapper. So avoiding as non-standard things, like Ndiswrapper,
is something that you want to do so that you won't have problems with the
things that you really need, like accelerated graphics and Win4Lin.
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