http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/trxdraxon-232376/ LinuxQuestions.org offers a free Linux forum where Linux newbies can ask questions and Linux experts can offer advice. Topics include security, installation, networking and much more. en Sat, 25 May 2013 10:11:25 GMT vBulletin 60 https://lqo-thequestionsnetw.netdna-ssl.com/questions/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/trxdraxon-232376/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/trxdraxon-232376/new-laptop-34808/ Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:19:38 GMT So for my birthday a couple months ago the wife got me a new laptop. Got a good price on a HP DV6-6145dx, AMD A8-3500M 1.5ghz cpu with built in 6620... So for my birthday a couple months ago the wife got me a new laptop. Got a good price on a HP DV6-6145dx, AMD A8-3500M 1.5ghz cpu with built in 6620 HD ATI card, 8gigs of ram and 640g HD. It came with Windows 7 and I played with it for about a week to get a feel for battery life before I put Slackware on it.

Installing Slackware64 13.37 was pretty painless. With the base kernel on the CD wireless did not work. Upgrading to current fixed that. Only other thing I had to fiddle with was making a .asoundrc since it was detecting the HDMI out as my default sound card. The open source ATI driver worked fine for movies, etc. But I could not get resume to work. Suspend worked but would resume to a black screen no matter how much google-fu I tried. When the 12.6 Catalyst beta drivers came out I installed those. Battery life has been better and runs cooler. And suspend and resume works great now.

So far I am getting about the same battery life under Slack that I did in the short time I tried Win7. Getting a bit over 4 hours sometimes more depending on use. At first I was a bit weary about getting this machine because of the ATI card but so far I have to say I am glad I bought this little machine. Runs Slackware well and I am able to get my work done efficiently while on the go. ]]> trxdraxon http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/trxdraxon-232376/new-laptop-34808/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/trxdraxon-232376/the-misadventures-of-a-bored-geek-34791/ Thu, 31 May 2012 03:52:13 GMT Finally decided to start a blog over here. This will mostly be my adventures in Slackware and some FreeBSD as those are the distro's I use the most. Also notes on things that I would like to keep track of and that might be useful for others.

I have been using Slackware since about 97 or 98. At that time I really did not use it on my desktop at home. I worked for a small local ISP doing dial-up tech support and account installs. One day our Sys-Admin just walked out and never came back so the job kinda fell in my lap (only unix experience I had at that point was adding users and setting up ftp www accounts).

So in trying to find ways to learn more about our servers I found Slackware. Loaded it on my PC at work and never looked back. My next job a few years after that used FreeBSD. I have played with many other distro's over the years, some I've liked others I just couldn't stand. But I always come back to Slackware.

When Slackware64 came is when I started using Linux on my desktop full time. Out of the machines at my house only one runs windows still and that is my sons computer because of a few games he plays which will not run under wine. I even have my wife using Xubuntu on her laptop now.

Enough blabbering, my next post will be about my new laptop what it took to get Slack running on my smoothly.

- Tim ]]> trxdraxon http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/trxdraxon-232376/the-misadventures-of-a-bored-geek-34791/