Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...
From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sat Sep 03 2005 - 20:56:22 EST
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> SMBus
Is there anything on there that you actually want to talk to?
> Audio ("unknown codec")
snd-ati-atiixp ought to drive it - if it doesn't, that's probably a bug.
> Modem ("no codec available")
It's a winmodem. What were you expecting?
> Wireless
Broadcom won't release any specs.
> FlashMedia
TI won't release any specs. If you're especially nice to them, they may
give you a binary driver built against your kernel.
> SD/MMC
Ditto.
> Additionally, the system clock runs at 2x normal speed with PowerNow enabled.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927
> Am I stuck with running XP on this thing?
If you buy a machine with hardware produced by manufacturers that are
hostile to Linux, and you want to use that hardware, then yes. Don't do
that.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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