On Saturday 28 Nov 2009, Rony wrote:
Arun Khan wrote:
On Friday 27 Nov 2009, rajesh ruparel wrote:
i even offered that i want to buy linux loaded laptop, but all ie hp, dell, acer, said no they dont sell it. even chroma, vijay sales, etc dont have a single linux laptop.available for sale.
Aspire 5542 comes with Linpux Linux preloaded and is about Rs. 3500 less than it's cousin with Win7. You can remove and install any one of the distros released recently.
I have talked with a few Dell marketing guys and they claim that their Vostro line comes with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Contact me offlist if you are interested.
Off late, Acer laptops do not detect the LAN card directly in Linux and the driver has to be manually loaded. This is quite a pain as it has to be downloaded on another pc and transferred manually before running the compile process.
NIC detection problem was also present with the Intel Atom mobos when they first came out.
Which acer model; which linux distro and version?
Re: 5542, I loaded openSUSE 11.2 (amd64) and to the best of my knowledge all devices are detected. Webcam, WiFi, LAN; AMD-V virtualization requires "modprobe kvm-amd" to load the modules and I can run guest KVM VMs!
The HDMI port is reported active but I have not tested it with a LCD panel yet.
Having problems with the ATI BLOB (85MB) video driver. Unable to set the pizzaz desktop effects in KDE 4.3; have not tried Gnome/compiz. For 2D, the Xorg driver work fine though.
Overall, I took a chance with this model and to much to my delight it is a winner in all departments.