Hi List! I have the short term use of a Hewlett Packard Pavilion zd7020 laptop computer!
Of course, the first thing I did was join the club so I could bit-torrent the 9.2 version of Mandrake. The install went smoothly, but I note the following problems: ntfsresize could not re-size the win XP partition. There was an error about the cluster accounting. I'm sorry, but I forgot to write down the exact error. Configuirng the wide-screen display required manual editing of the XF86Config-4 file. I used the win-XP reported 1440x900 resolution and 60Hz refresh to compute the correct display mode using the modeline calculator that I found here: http://www.zaph.com/Modeline/ I used the defaults for everything but the screen's native resolution. The sound system does not seem to work properly. When a sound plays (through the ALSA driver, I have not tried others) only extremely angry noise comes from the speakers. The audio system is reported as 82801EB AC'97 Audio in the Mandrake Control Center. I have not had a chance to try the DVD+RW/CDRW combo drive as a writer under linux. ( borrowed 3 discs to write the linux cds under winxp...) The 4-way didgital media reader does not appear to work, though I have not investigated it deeply. The scroll-wheel touch-pad does not detect properly during install, but when re-configured afterward it works fine, though the scroll-wheel is too sensitive in the default condition. I only have access to this machine for another week! PLEASE tell me what diagnostics to run, and I will post the results to the web. This is a nice enough system, that I will probably buy a similar model, but I thought should get as much info from it as possible while I could. please advise! Many thanks! +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--------------------------------+ | Sitting in his UNIX LAN | Charles A. Shirley | | Making all his UNIX plans | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +------# For nobody @------+--------------------------------+
