Re: [SLUG] Athlon 64 Laptop

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 15:33:34 EDT


Derek Glidden wrote:
>
>
> That's the same laptop I have (or close, mine's a 5150 3Ghz P-IV) and I
> still, more than six months later, have failed to get _any_ linux distro
> running smoothy on it. Dell claims "we cannot reproduce the problem" so
> it's "not defective" according to them, since it passes the full "diags"
> test suite. Yet it randomly locks up probably two or three times a day
> under even light use, even under the version of windows that came
> preinstalled on it.
>
> I've tried debian, redhat, gentoo and SuSE with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels
> and none of them work consistently or reliably. I'm sure it's the
> laptop's fault, but short of a class-action lawsuit (many, many other
> people have had problems with the 5000 series) there's not a whole lot I
> can do about it since Dell refuses to admit there's anything wrong with it.
>
> Note here that this is not a case of linux not working, but a failed
> laptop. So I definitely don't blame linux. I do however blame the
> laptop manufacturer's for failing to make laptops with "standard"
> components that linux can support. Not that there's anything anyone can
> do about that.

It's probably just shoddy manufacturing. As in: The components probably aren't to blame so much as the design and workmanship.

re: locking up
Does it have all of its cooling vents on the bottom?
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