Posts by PhysicsGuy

On the linux compatability issue, I have a 1036 and have gotten everything but the webcam working in Gentoo, and the only difficult pieces were the ethernet card (Agere et131x) and the multimedia card reader (O2 Micro), but these fixes...

I have the 1036, running linux, with 2gb ram and NO bluetooth, and it has never locked up on me, even during the most intense compiling or gaming. It does, however, get pretty hot on occasion and I too think that there should be a...

I purchased an MSI 1036 recently (AMD Turion MT-40, ATI X700) as a desktop replacement, although I never expected it to actually do that completely. I was wrong. It runs Xgl/Compiz BEAUTIFULLY, it's speedier than my middle aged desktop...

To follow up, dadams, I got mine and tried to install gentoo. lspci revealed that my ethernet IS agere and the wireless card is RaLink rt2500. So I've decided to burn a cd with the ebuilds of rt2500 and ndiswrapper, as well as their...

dadams1969: I should be receiving mine any day now (shipped Friday), and will immediately be installing Gentoo 2006.0 (which was just released this weekend). If I find a solution to the driver problem, I will let you know. Conversely,...