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List:       linux-sony
Subject:    Re: [Linux-sony] Sony GRS515M
From:       Chris Howells <chrish () gmx ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-11-20 23:56:06
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Hi Alan,

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:48 am, John S. Andersen wrote:
> Generally, the gr and grx series have been quite successfull
> if you are running a late version 2.4.19 kernel or later with
> acpi support.
>
> It varies a bit by distro.
> I've been using suse 8.1 which worked out of the box
> as suse has applied all the acpi patches (and a few of their own)
> but works better with the later mantel kernels as he
> is suse's kernel hacker and constantly fixing things.
> 2.4.20 kernels should work unpatched.

Thanks a lot for the response, I will certainly bear it in mind when I finally 
come to buy the machine (probably around the middle of December after the 
refund from Dell is safely in my bank account).

At the moment I'm slightly tending towards a Toshiba machine since it has a 
NVidia Geforce4 rather than the Radeon of the Sony, and I must admit that 
while lots of people have had problems with the binary drivers, I have had 
absolutely no problems with them at all. In fact, DRI with an ATI Rage Pro 
128 caused more problems....

I was speaking to some guy in a shop today and he reckons that the machines 
are on 6-8 week product life cycles so by the time I come to get the machine 
I could be favouring a Sony option again :)

- -- 
Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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