Laptops

[mdlinuxwolf]

Has anyone put Sabayon onto a laptop? What happened? Currently, I dual boot SuSE 10.2 with Vista Business. The sound doesn't work. You have to really hunt down movie DVD support as well.

[zouzou85]

running it on a lappy here. no problems at all.
for your sound, what card do you have?
for dvd support, sabayon comes with win-codecs preinstalled, which means you can watch dvd's without any hunting down.
enjoy

[mdlinuxwolf]

I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 with the stock OEM sound card. I didn't special order any sort of upgraded sound card.

This is a 82801G which is from the ICH7 family High Definition audio controller, according to YaST.

I got the computer loaded with Vista Business from Best Buy and then set it up to dual boot with SuSE 10.2 after trying several live CDs for erratic behavior.

BTW, for dual booting from Vista, you MUST resize the partition with Vista's own disk management tools or else.... disaster. Unlike XP, you won't just get a blue screen and a complaint. You will trash it forever. Vista is thus more fragile then XP. (fix it 'till its broke M$)

After that, make a Linux partition with GRUB or LILO just as if you were dual booting with any other sort of Windows.

[zouzou85]

well, i googled around for that sound card, and it seems like you will need to do a kernel configuration.
anyway, just check this link:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Intel_9 ... :_HD_Audio
good luck

[mdlinuxwolf]

I saw that as well. I don't know if something for Gentoo will work for SuSE anyway. I was told to either wait for the 2.20.x kernel or for 10.3 to come out.

What if the kernel doesn't like the desktop or won't compile?

What is the exact command line syntax to make this happen safely? (eg. no "force" switches)

I tried to mess with a kernel twice..... disaster !! I had to reinstall from scratch both times. I learned that one should simply use the most recent version of Linux. eg. do NOT try to get Mandrake 10 to work with Linksys wireless and SATA II drives.

...metisse (which is unstable -- requires issuing killallxmetisse to shutdown for desktop and laptop)

Mepis 6.0 (great for a desktop, erratic on the Lenovo) ... ditto 6.5

Then SuSE 10.2 which is flawless except for lack of sound support..... Hmmmmm

It sounds like that special time to backup the /home folder and try another distro, probably this one. It is either (or both) fabricating new spark plug wires for the motorcycle or scrapping SuSE for Sabayon.

I'm using a Core Duo CPU combined with 2 gigs of 667 speed RAM. This should be enough for any version of UNIX or Linux. Even Vista, which is the world's worst memory hog, runs OK with this. Strangely enough, Vista uses only about 30% to 50% of the CPU bandwidth for normal operation. :

[Fitzcarraldo]

I'm running SL on a laptop (see spec. in my signature) and it works very well indeed.

According to lspci I have the same soundcard as you:

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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

and sound works perfectly on my laptop. The only problem I've had sound-wise so far was with microphone not working with an earlier version of Skype, but it works fine with the latest version of Skype.

[webmouse]

I have a HP Pavilion DV6201eu (Sempron Mobile 3400+, 2GB mem., nVidia Go 6150 128 MB). Works, so far no problems. Wireless not tested yet.

[edgevision]

Tried, tested, and true on the HP nc6000, HP nc6230, and Acer Aspire 1690 laptops. The 6000 had a couple minor issues because it's older (see the Wiki,) but the other two worked out-of-the-box without any problems.

[mbmalone]

I am downloading a copy of Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 3.4 Revision E: Stable Release and will be attempting an install this afternoon on my HP DV9200 Intel Based Notebook. I'll let everyone know how it goes. As long as my Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 gets autoconfigured with the WPA Supplement and I have no major troubles with my NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 during the install, I wouldn't mind working on the rest. From what I'm been reading, it should be supported right out of the box so I cant' wait. I had very good experience with PCLinuxOS 2007, so I have high hopes.

[eshum]

"You will trash it forever." Good information to have one more way to destroy Vista and install a real operating system.

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