Ken: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:34:49AM +0200, Karl Hammar wrote: ... > > I am testing an Asus one (AS96SP965PM2) for the moment which I might > > resell for 4160SEK+vat (that would be something like 250USD). To make > > a working notebook you have to add cpu, disk, memory, and software. > > Also check whether keyboard, batteries and power adapter is included. ... > I have an ASUS barebone Z96F, into which I plopped a 2.33Ghz 7500 > Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (which ASUS said wasn't supported, but it works > fine), 2GB RAM, and a 100GB 7500RPM PATA drive (which also wasn't > supported). So basically I built myself MacBook Pro, for a little over > US$1000 at the time. Nice. > Only trouble I ran into, is that using a PATA drive on these laptops > is a BAD IDEA. That's because there is no PATA interface in computer! > The chipset only understands SATA, and there's a goofy, lousy, crappy > hack somewhere on the motherboard that makes the PATA drive appear as > a SATA drive to the rest of the machine. Thus: the BIOS doesn't even > recognize my drive. However, the linux drivers have no problem with > this, and the drive works fine once I tell the BIOS to boot anyway > even though it thinks there are no drives in the machine. The above one have a SATA HD and an PATA CD. Both are seen and reported by the BIOS. I wounder if I could boot from the SD-adapter in the computers front. I just got the modem to work. Next thing is to make resume from a X-session, and suspend to ram (text mode suspend to disk/resumer works fine). Do you know how to access the BIOS, there seem to be no key-combinations to get into the bios-setup at boot. Regards, /Karl _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
