The adventures and rambling of your average windows user trying to live in a linux world.
New Laptop
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.
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.
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