Loaded oss 11.0 a week or so ago on this dual x64 machine and everything is flying!
OK, you probably want to do an online update and then do it again with appropriate community repositories installed. Install extra bits if your machine is more than standard, as mine is, but with little tweaking everything is working well. Best of all the DVB card is running, and the webcam can be on at the same time. In fact those were the 2 trickiest bits – I needed to load a file for each to work properly.
The machine is an HP DV9292eu. The fiddly bits include NVidia GeForce7600, Broadcom Wlan, Ricoh r5u870 webcam and Yuan EC300 DVB-T express card. I’ve also added a second harddrive (320gb), but that was no problem and so the system recognises 4 operating systems (new linux, old linux, and windoze on both too), 4 storage partitions and 2 swap partitions. I’ve also replaced the RAM, but the spec is similar. The processors are dual AMD x64.
For the wlan, I loaded the bcml5 driver using ndiswrapper.
For the webcam I needed to download the r5u870 driver, make and install it. And it was then automatically picked up by kdeTV.
For the DVB card I needed to create a file in /etc/sysconfig called hwcfg-bus-pci-0000:00:0e.0 (replace everything after pci- with the correct address of your DVB usb card detected using Yast Hardware info). The file simply has the following text:
MODULE=’budget’
MODULE_OPTIONS=”
STARTMODE=’auto’
(I still have reservations about the system board on this HP dv9292 machine, but its been discontinued now and the recent dv98xx should have no problems. Similarly spec’ed machines from Asus, Acer and Toshiba also look good.)
Overall a good machine with excellent software, getting better all the time.
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