Interesting. I, too have a 5150 3ghz p4 that locks up on occasion. Not as
often as yours, Derek, but maybe a few times per week. I've learned to live
with it, unfortunately.
What I also find interesting is that I have a Dell Axim hand-held that also
freezes up on me a few times a week.
Maybe this is a Dell feature ... ?
Let me know if you file a class-action suit...I'll join.
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Derek Glidden
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 3:01 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Athlon 64 Laptop
On Jun 25, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Mike Branda wrote:
> this may be a hassle for some but seems to be a little overdone as a
> statement. linux distro flavors seem to have more quirks between them
> than the more recent hardware in my experience. obviously within
> reason
> that the bleeding edge hardware takes some additional time.
> I'm writing this from a 3 month old DELL Inspiron 5150 P4 2.6 GHz 768
> MB
> DDR running SuSE 9.1 that previously ran 9.0. All hardware including
> firewire, USB, Touchpad, Sound, Battery/Charging recoginition and more
> worked flawlessly from the box. the only piece of hardware I had to
I am shamed.
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.
/me only slightly bitter...
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