Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64
Kernel version: 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5
Components known to work and tested:
Processor: AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK36 (2.0 GHz, 512KB L2 cache)
Screen: 14.1″ WXGA LCD
Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
Hard disk drive: 60GB HDD
Optical drive: DVD-Super Multi double layer
Memory: 2.5GB DDR2
Ethernet: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Sound: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio
Components unkown or not tested:
56k Modem
PCMCIA: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller
Additional steps required:
Wireless: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) (instructions)
General observations:
Seems to run quite well, except for rather slow boot, and dmesg reporting a lot of these messages:
# dmesg | more
hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff
…
Some say this is related to the sound card, however, the sound card on this laptop works very well.
