I just bought a laptop myself (MSI-GT70), and the hardware (as far as I can tell) worked flawlessly with linux (even Optimus, see my above comment about bumblebee).
However, the major stumbling block was EFI and Windows Dual-Boot (I have my reasons): No matter how I tried, I could not get any EFI bootloader to boot linux. I could get grub-efi, efi-shell, elilo, to all boot themselves, but none of them are able to boot the kernel. So I must use linux in Legacy (BIOS) mode.
Since windows is pre-installed, and the new recovery system isn't actually a proper installer (as far as I can tell. I haven't wanted to risk wiping the installation to test...), I must continue to boot windows in EFI mode.
So now my dual boot menu is actually chenging between BIOS and EFI, instead of choosing an option from the grub menu.
I honestly have to agree with the ease of setting up Bumblebee. When I bought my current laptop online, it was advertised as nVidia graphics, and nowhere did it mention intel... so I was disappointed (and quite confused) to find X using the intel driver. I had never heard of this Optimus thing, and 5 minutes later, I had bumblebee installed, and running.
"Grad student Andrew Siemion reports that new modifications to a data recorder at Green Bank that we need for our Kepler SETI observations are now complete, thanks to a huge amount of help from Paul Demorest, a former grad student and one of initial authors of AstroPulse. Our first hour of test time is scheduled for this Saturday, 17:30 EDT. We'll be observing with 450 seconds per target on 90 Kepler field stars with interesting planet candidates (~habitable zone, ~Earth size, ~Earth period, ~several planets), then do a raster scan of the entire Kepler field. " - Eric Korpela
There are quite a few roundabouts near Boston, MA, but we call them "rotaries."
There's one a few blocks away from where I live that has lights, red flashing at each of the five entrances, and yellow flashing at each of the five exits and 5 crosswalks across the middle. Only the lights for the crosswalks activated turn red, while the rest remain flashing normally, thereby clogging up the whole thing everytime someone crosses anywhere.
What I don't understand are the two-lane rotaries, whereby one has to cut someone off to exit the rotary from the inside lane.
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Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these babies!
I just bought a laptop myself (MSI-GT70), and the hardware (as far as I can tell) worked flawlessly with linux (even Optimus, see my above comment about bumblebee).
However, the major stumbling block was EFI and Windows Dual-Boot (I have my reasons):
No matter how I tried, I could not get any EFI bootloader to boot linux. I could get grub-efi, efi-shell, elilo, to all boot themselves, but none of them are able to boot the kernel. So I must use linux in Legacy (BIOS) mode.
Since windows is pre-installed, and the new recovery system isn't actually a proper installer (as far as I can tell. I haven't wanted to risk wiping the installation to test...), I must continue to boot windows in EFI mode.
So now my dual boot menu is actually chenging between BIOS and EFI, instead of choosing an option from the grub menu.
I honestly have to agree with the ease of setting up Bumblebee. When I bought my current laptop online, it was advertised as nVidia graphics, and nowhere did it mention intel... so I was disappointed (and quite confused) to find X using the intel driver. I had never heard of this Optimus thing, and 5 minutes later, I had bumblebee installed, and running.
https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee/+archive/stable
From the relevant thread over at Seti@Home:
"Grad student Andrew Siemion reports that new modifications to a data recorder at Green Bank that we need for our Kepler SETI observations are now complete, thanks to a huge amount of help from Paul Demorest, a former grad student and one of initial authors of AstroPulse. Our first hour of test time is scheduled for this Saturday, 17:30 EDT. We'll be observing with 450 seconds per target on 90 Kepler field stars with interesting planet candidates (~habitable zone, ~Earth size, ~Earth period, ~several planets), then do a raster scan of the entire Kepler field. " - Eric Korpela
If it's the same bug I kept hitting, try this:
edit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules to include on a line by itself "ac" and then run: update-initramfs -c -k all
Short version: if the ac module is loaded, it boots fine. Something wonky in ACPI. This worked for me in 8.10, at least.
And to think, this happens the day after Gates steps down...
No, it's toast.
There are quite a few roundabouts near Boston, MA, but we call them "rotaries."
There's one a few blocks away from where I live that has lights, red flashing at each of the five entrances, and yellow flashing at each of the five exits and 5 crosswalks across the middle. Only the lights for the crosswalks activated turn red, while the rest remain flashing normally, thereby clogging up the whole thing everytime someone crosses anywhere.
What I don't understand are the two-lane rotaries, whereby one has to cut someone off to exit the rotary from the inside lane.
So you don't ask questions that have already been asked, here is the alt.fan.douglas-adams FAQ and the alt.fan.douglas-adams MFAQ
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perhaps then there wouldn't be so much emphasis son looking like a model from a magazine
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