On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 16:04 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation on a current model laptop that works fairly > well with rhel5 64bit and a xen kernel? I know ATI and Intel video both > work fairly decently out of the box, not sure about nvidia. I looked at > RedHat's HCL, and there were very few laptops, mainly Dell Precision e6300 > and IBM [TX]61. > > I had always heard good things about the IBM T series and linux, but one of > my co-workers installed it on his T61 and had all sorts of issues. > > i've been playing with an HP 6910p, but keep getting IRQ conflicts with the > keyboard, sd card, and wireless.
Co-incidentally, the thing under my fingers right now is a 6910p. Beware of the two possible options - that with built in intel graphics (like this one) and that with ATI graphics (not like this one). Obviously ATI graphics means binary driver (don't even attempt the "radeon" XOrg driver, it throws a wobbly). I did test this one with RHEL5/64 and it worked OK. The intel video driver is slightly buggy (or was 3 months ago) and occasionally crashed on 3D operations (I was testing some Chemistry software at the time), but I had no problems with general use. The i810 driver doesn't support the native resolution. The Wifi driver (iwlwifi) doesn't seem to get great reception, at least when I use it with the work WPA2-Enterprise, but I don't seem to have any problem at home with WPA-PSK. All the other peripherals work under Linux (actually I didn't try PCMCIA), even the Fingerprint reader if you can be bothered to get libfprint on there. My one Caveat is that I didn't try the Xen kernel. My laptop experience with that is pretty horrible, due to the fact it lags behind the other kernel in terms of versions and hence drivers. All in all it's a pretty good Laptop for Linux. I've got it running Fedora 10 at the moment - KVM virtual machines (I have a pair running) seem fine and it generally works as well as my desktop. I think the problem is that you can't buy 6910p's any more (at least we can't on our HP procurement deal) - and a 6930p just won't work with RHEL5 (no Network driver) -- Sam _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
