Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

[Matthew Garrett]

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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