23 Mar
2004
23 Mar
'04
9:26 a.m.
I would encourage you to hold off for a couple months,
of course if
you can afford to wait. It took me literally a good year on my old
Inspiron 8000 (later replaced for 8100) before most of the quirks were
resolved on it (both Win32 and Linux-side). This is pretty much the
case with most of the new technology. For instance my newest toy, the
aforementioned m6807 by eMachines has been on the market for barely 2
months and it is in dire need of a BIOS update. Hopefully one will be
released by eMachines (although I am a bit skeptical about this one as
most of their other products don't have such low-level updates
available), but if not, there are plenty of other resellers that might
since this model is being rebranded by over half-dozen companies
across the world.
actually i don't _have_ to buy a new machine, but my current
system
won't work with my hdsp (i'm unable to rewrite the kernel driver for
the cardbus interface) and my maudio quattro is limited to 4 channels /
kernel 2.4 and the input channels are only working if i restart alsa
several times...
and since i've got these problems on my machine with the hdsp, i'll
probably stick to a cardbus bridge, rme doesn't warn against
(currently i couldn't find any amd64 laptop available in germany, that's
matching these criteria)
anyway, when i
talked to thomas a short time ago, he considered
going to the lad conference, i'll go there, and concerning the
schedule, you'll be there, too ... maybe we could try to track this
problem down and try to contact the kernel mailinglist again...
Absolutely! Looking forward to meeting you!