I am planing to buy a laptop, and Suse 9.1 pro. Does any one out there have any experience with Suse and laptops? The laptop I have in mind is the HP zd7260. Any feedback will be apreciated.

Raxxal

SuSE Linux 9.1 works great with laptops. I tried installing Win XP on mine and was not successful and therefore I decided to try SuSE and I was very impressed with it. It works very well with it.

The specs for my laptop:

Pentium Celeron 750 MHz
128 RAM
20 Gb Hard disk
8 Mb video RAM

So you see with this spec, I was able to install SuSE. So I don't think you will have any problems with your laptop.

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. This gives me more peace of mind. Suse seems to be very interesting. I was playing a little bit with the Personal edition, found an old video card, actually both video cards are old, installed them, hook both monitor, and man! Both monitors work just fine. Not Xinerama, by the way, I don't want that. As soon as I get the laptop, I will buy Suse Professional edition.

Raxxal

SuSE 9.1 Pro runs great on my HP ze4230. It even recognized the crappy winmodems it came with. It is the only distro I have ever put on the machine without needing to do a kernel recompile.

I'm using the personal edition on my Thinkpad T30 (P4 Mobile 2.2GHz, WLAN, Winmoden, Net, ...) and even the Radeon mobile graphic card and internal modem is supported without any patching. So it was an amazing installation and it works all out of the box.

The only problem I had with SuSE was when installing SuSE 9.1 on a System containing brand new hardware but this is my own fault but even this I could fix by using SuSEs updated Kernel and information on SuSEs support site

Dirk

Try running the SuSE Live Eval CD first. That should give you a great indicator of how this may or may not work...

I'm currently running SuSE 9.1 Pro on 2 laptops, an IBM R-40 and a Dell Latitude D600. No problems on either one. The R-40's built-in Wi-Fi worked right out of the box, something that did not happen with RH9 or Fedora C1.

How is the speedstepping working. I am also looking for a linux laptop, but the problem of finding one that will work out of the box is imposible. I am looking at the HP nx5000 with SUSE, which looks great, but I want to exhaust all possibilities first.

Also, does anyone know how the lates Kernel supports speedsteping with the Dothan prossesor?

From what I gather by googling, speedsteping is the prosses by which the processor is changes cpu frequency depending on load. Know the part where I am confused is what frequencies are these. The HP nx5000 states that it will run at 600mhz on battary. This is what I dont like. With windows XP it seems to me they have multiple frequency jumps to switch to depending on load. I am correct on this?

Still dont get the speedsteping concepet HELP!!!!!

Thanks,
Jimmy