> 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).
Ours has the ati. I just updated to rhel5.3, but on this and 5.2 the radeon seemed to work just fine. RHEL5.3 even let me do a graphical install. (RH support recommended trying the 5.3beta due to the irq issue) > 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. i'll keep that in mind, because I would prefer intel graphics personally. > 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. The RHEL5.2 wireless was decent, I run WPA2 at home, and I streamed some ISOs from the net at 4-5Mbps. The iwlagn with RHEL5.3 seems to work fairly well, but I haven't speed tested it yet. > 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 SD card slot throws firmware errors in messages, but I haven't tested it, and I think it also goes back to the IRQ issues. > 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. I had the same IRQ complaints pre-xen kernel, but I know that xen makes a difference which is why I mentioned it. > 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. Goes back to the whole "We run RHEL5 internally" issue. My desktop is Fedora, but I'm special *chuckle*, and the laptops aren't for me. > 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) See, I think we can still get these, but these 'Disabling IRQ' issues are a bit of a show stopper (they weren't until it disabled the wifi and keyboard because all they had hit was the sd card slot and expresscard slot). -greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
