Re: eMachines M6805 (Athlon 64) laptop and Linux?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 08:09:10 EST


Hi!

> I'm strongly tempted to buy one of these laptops -- but I want it to run
> Linux instead of that "other" operating system. Has anyone installed
> Linux (32- or 64-bit) on one of these machines?
>
> Or does anyone have a suggestion for a "Linux certified" Athlon 64 system?

There are some problems with ACPI, APIC and CPUFREQ, plus I do not
think build-in wifi can be made to work.

Otherwise its a nice machine ;-).
Pavel
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