Idle thought — the tags field in Logjam should be below the text entry field. How do I know what I want to tag my entry with before I even start typing?
So I got meself the HP Pavilion DV5200TX. It’s not bad, as laptops go. I’ve got only one complaint — the damn blue LEDs are blinding in the dark. Particularly the bright wireless indicator LED. What were the morons thinking?
It’s running Gentoo primarily — fonts suck right now because the RENDER extension is turned off (X.org 7.1 introduces an ABI change that nVidia needs to address. Did I mention this baby has an nVidia GeForce Go 7400 with 256 megs of RAM? Downside — it’s a power hog). Need to put more detailed information up on Gentoo Wiki or some such so people do not grope in the dark like I did to get all the hardware up.
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congrats dude :)
Tell me all the gotchas – I may end up buying this same one very soon.
hole in your pocket ? (geforce … heh).
ooh.. That burns :) Pity not enough power hungry games to stress the baby :P
That and sleepless nights. :(
My only gotcha for now, barring the LEDs is that it might be overkill. Will let you know about battery life whe I have sufficient data. :)
I heart old DOS games. :)
Thanks! :D
Indeed. So do I. Such much more fun game play rather than just fancy graphics :)
Nice one. 256 meg video RAM.. we do like to pamper ourselves :P
SEV
you could lways connect it to a power source…
mine expands itself to 512GB!!!
Yea, psycadelic lights… i have a cuple on my kbd.. lemme count 7 ofthem in total!!!
did u prtitionyour 100 gb?
After that horrbile blue-beam emitting phone of yours, your laptop’s following suit?
That’s a lot of memory. Heck you’re nearing the 64-bit limit even. :)
Of course. 20 gigs for ‘blows. 10-odd for stupid restore partition. 65 for Linux
Blue, it’s my new obsession.
We are unable to sleep trying to figure out how to pay for. :)
my damn mind… i wrote 1GB then backspace backspace 512… forgot to change the gb…. its 512mb!! mb!!!
doesnt yours expand??
how much RAM do u have? 1GB?
Battery life might be low — need to do some more data gathering before concluding.
Downsides… Its a powerhog.. Wait till ya find out why DELL is prefered over the hapless HP..
Dell uses 3rd rate hardware. HP merely uses 2nd rate hardware. I’d rather have a system functional through most of it’s life whiel lasting 2 hours on battery than a cheaper system that I need to use the NBD warranty of every 6 months.
Guess he is doing it! 10 GB for ‘Blows should allow him to instally atleast one or maybe two games to fully use that card ;)
Overkill in what sense? I definitely don’t need the video card or the remote control and jazz. But a 15.4″ would be nicer than a 14.1″.
Do an LED count …
Go lie in your bed, turn off your lights and count the blinkeys …
ha – ha!
Hey saw your comments while doing a google search on this model…not many on this model till now..I got this lappy as well a couple of days back and all’s well except the battery as you rightly pointed…perhaps a big price for the add-ons. Another issue is the fonts which suck as of now and get worse while scrolling pages on the net…any idea how I can fine tune them to get better quality. The HP reseller has no idea and Nvidia has limited info on this card. Any info wud be appreciated.
What version of X.org are you using? No hope of the thing working with 7.1 till nVidia decides to put out a new build. Mine works fine with 7.0.
nVidia has released drivers that fix this issue.
Where did you get these drivers? Cant seem to find them on the Nvidia site? In fact they dont list this card? Please let me know. Thanks.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html