travelmate 4651

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 11-14-2005

i've just ordered a travelmate 4651LMi for £800 from acer and want to know if anyone has any experience with linux on it. i'm going to test it with kanotix when i get it, but i'd like a bit of forewarning if anything is going to go wrong.

**AlexK** · 11-15-2005

I'd say, take a look at this site to find other people's experiences with it.

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 11-19-2005

nope. the closest is the LCi, which doesn't have the geforce go 6600. i installed suse on it and the wifi is hit and miss though i don't know if it's a hardware thing. i'll check that when i get my ADSL back up and running at home (in 3 weeks) and get a wireless router. a problem i seem to get is some corruption of the screen which can only be solved by restarting X. any advice on that would be greatly appreciated. i might need to install the nvidia drivers, so i'll report back on that when i've installed it (i'll probably need to hook it up to the college network to download and install).

**AlexK** · 11-19-2005

if your laptop has a widescreen monitor, usually the one sax2 chooses for you is the "wrong" one, in my dad's case it was better to choose the generic option for the lcd (on Toshiba Satellite P30, SUSE 9.3). And installing the nvidia drivers should help.

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 11-20-2005

well it's 15" with a max res of 1450x1050. like i say, the internet is down at my house so it'll have to wait but i'll try to get access to my college network.

**onlinebacon** · 11-20-2005

I would hazard a guess and say it should be OK, nvidia cards rock with linux, as ya know

But apart from that nice lappy

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 11-21-2005

i know they rock, but i'm not sure how well they work without the drivers which could be the cause of the corruption i'm getting. gonna pester my parents to get me a carrying case sometime this week so i can bring it into college with me.

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 11-27-2005

hmm... thought that my internet was back up for a sec there, but it might just be the laptop logging into the unencrypted wireless :S
dammit homecall! get my internet up and running again!!!

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 11-28-2005

ok, i installed the nvidia drivers, but now i don't have a usable xorg.conf configuration. i've had to uninstall them for the time being. i had a quick shufty in sax2 but i still couldn't make things work. any ideas please? the gfx card is a geforce go 6600.

**deltaflyer** · 11-28-2005

i know it may sound daft,but have you tried techiemoe's tutorial on nvidias driver installation, http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-44103.html
just a thought

andy

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