I just buy a NEC Versa Laptop s5500, made in china. the lcd broke to pieces after a month i use it. luckly the support is reachable and quite friendly. But i have to spent another USD300 to replace it.
I am running debian. Only work on the latest lenny kernel. It get it working except for the webcam.. On 1/3/09, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > >> On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> >>> >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, >>> >> there will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, >>> >> the movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found >>> >> that the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective. >>> >> >>> > >>> > Which video card do you have? The ATI x1400 in this card was a pain in >>> > the beginning, but now that ATI supports Linux it is great. I am very >>> > happy with the video performance. >>> > >>> >>> $lspci | grep ATI >>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [ATI Mobility >>> Radeon X1300] >>> >>> I can't complain about video performance. My complaint was with the >>> memory parity errors when flash videos are played on Windows XP. The >>> error is >>> >>> *** Hardware malfunction >>> Call your hardware vendor for support >>> NMI: Parity check/ memory parity error >>> *** The system has halted*** >>> >>> It occurs pretty randomly. Sometimes while watching a flash video it can >>> occur at 35th minute sometimes it can show up at 7th minute. Sometimes it >>> might not even show up after the full video (say 60 minutes). The videos >>> play fine in Linux. >>> >> >> Perhapse you should run memtest (aptitude install memtest86+, then reboot, >> choose the memtest option and let it run for a couple of hours). >> >> Could be that you have some faulty memory that windows is hitting and >> linux not >> for some reason (x3100 is a shared memory card), possibly due to video >> mode, double buffering etc. >> >> (although I don't know if memtest can check the video memory, you should >> probably set it to the minimum in the bios for the test if possible) >> > > FWIW, A little search in google tells that the fans of "world of warcraft" > also have the same issue. (See > http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=69639514&sid=1&pageNo=1 > for more info). They happened to encounter it while playing that game > (which, I assume, consumes a lot of RAM, CPU cycles). So it sounds like a > hardware issue. > > hth > raju > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org