Re: HP dv6700se

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Ahmed Kamal wrote:
Hi everyone,
Any experiences with Linux HP dv6700se ? Seems to me like a really solid laptop, and good value, but linux-laptop.net <http://linux-laptop.net> does not mention it. I wanna be sure it's fedora compatible ?

never heard of it.

What's the current state with nVidia cards under Linux ? Is it a matter of waiting for a few weeks till their driver catches up with the kernel, or is their drivers quality getting bad lately ? Should I deliberately avoid getting this laptop, coz it has a nVidia card ?

my experience is that NVidia are not that bad.

I'm using a HP G6000, which has an NVidia GeForce 7000M. the free drivers simply don't support it, so I had to use NVidia's drivers.

once Fedora9 stabilised a bit, NVidia's driver suddenly just worked (there was a period where the ABI for the new XOrg was in flux, so NVidia's driver was uncertain how to interface with the server).

If the card is the only questionable item, then I'd say go for it.

check the wifi as well, though - that can be another tricky item to get working...

kae

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