I'm looking to replace my desktop with the Gateway 7422GX. Here are the specs. AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1600MHz system bus with HyperTransport Technology, 1.0GB PC2700 DDR, 64MB ATI Mobility RADEON 9550/9600, built-in wireless LAN with 125HMS technology. DVD+ - RW/CD-RW On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:59:45 -0600, Jonathan Berry <berryja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:37:56 -0600, Emmanuel Mejias <kcmanny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Has anyone had or know of any problems installing and running Fedora > > Core 3 64 bit on the Gateway notebooks with AMD Athlon 64 bit chips??? > > Any feedback would be great as I am looking to purchase this notebook > > and plan to install FC3 on it. > > What kind of hardware? I have a Compaq R3000Z Laptop with Athlon 64 > and FC3 x86_64 works great on it. nVidia graphics card an nForce3 > chipset mboard. A couple of things took a little effort to get > working (like widescreen, wireless (with 64-bit ndiswrapper now!), > etc.), but once you get past that initial work, it works great. And > there are probably people who have done it before who can tell you > what to do (there were with the R3000), so that makes it easy. What > kind of config are you looking at? You might check out the R3000 or > the HP equivalent zv5000. Go with the best bang for your buck. If > you want 3D, definitely go with an nVidia card if you can. I know it > works, ATi and 64-bit seems to be a little sketchy, or at least it > was. > > Jonathan > > PS: be sure to use Reply-to-All to keep things on-list >
