Hello,
I am wanting a really high spec AMD64 laptop and am concidering the sager 4750. I want to install SuSe 9.2 on it. Anyone done this allready done this? How well was it supported?
Thanks
Benoni

I'd like the same info...that latop is basicly an Alienware 7700 laptop.. I was thinking of putting Fedora Core 3 on it....

I've heard Fadora core works very well on a certain system, but I can't remember which one. I will ask my bro when he calls. I presume SuSe works well on HP as they are linked now. It would be great if more companies did that. Will get the good fedora system on this thread by the end of tonight hopefully.

I found this:
http://www.linuxworld.net.nz/sager98...title=Contents
I have heard threads of people saying that had no problems with the 4750 except LAN which could be fixed by updating the kernel with an ACPI patch from sourceforge, a suspend to disk patch from the same place, disabling ACPI or using only the wired/wireless, not both. However I don't know if they tested everything.
I would still be greatful for help from anyone who has tested it.

OK. Pritty final. I think it works quite well. Just a few problems with networking. I will certainly go with the sager 4750, unless I can find out what their release date is for their new AMD machine.

Benoni

One more thing I ment to say ages ago. ATI cards don't work well on linux. There are no drivers for 64bit. User nVIDA cards instead.

Hi,

I've been running SUse 9.2 64 bit on my Sager 4750 for a while now. Everything works except wireless networking. This is apparently due to a bug in the IRQ handling in the kernel, and there are patches available for some distributions, but not for Suse yet fro what I have seen. Wireless isn't really that critical for me when I'm running Linux, so I haven't really checked into it. In order to get things running, you need kernel options noapic and apci=no, and then you should be fine. As to the ATI driver question, mine run acceptably; I'm not doing anything graphics intensive, just coding no gaming or graphics work, so I haven't stressed it, but it's fine for what I do, and runs at 1600x1050. You will have to manually set the physical screen size though in the driver setup.

I'm happy with my setup now and would definitely buy one of these again.

Good luck...

Knobula, thanks very much. Have you found the external monitor out ok. I have anso heard that the paint can fade. You had that problem. I am not sure whether to go for the 4750 with good linux support, or its sucessor, which won't work as well.
Thanks again.
Benoni

Well, it's successor will probably have eventually the same good support, if it doesn't already. I've had mine since September, and the paint seems fine. You can run an external monitor with no setup (I just had to plug it in) but I have not tried multihead with a shared desktop. There is apparently a way, but I have not tried it out.

Cool. Thanks very much for your help. Sure is good to know it will work well on Linux. Will probably buy that very soon then.
Benoni

Mine's more Gentoo related, but I'm trying to track everything I do, so it may be of some use. I may eventually post some of it to the D470K wiki as I progress.

My page is here . Konqueror doesn't seem to handle CSS+XML very well, so Mozilla is a better viewer at the moment. I'm not going to do a transformation to HTML until I'm done.

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