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I have bought MSI M510C notebook recently (2.9Kg, 15" SXGA+, 512MB of ram, 40GB hard disk, ATI Radeon 9700M, Celeron M 1.5GHz, builtin Intel/Pro Wireless 2200BG and 4400 mAh battery).
I have chosen this model mainly because all of it's hardware is supported by GNU/*/Linux operating system. Now I have Ubuntu Linux running on it and I can say it just rocks :)
Installing Warty (I got install disc from ubuntu's shipit project) was a breeze -- but, like always, problems occured right after successful installation. Grub just hang after "Loading stage 1.5..." message. This was rather simple to fix: boot with ubuntu installation cd, go to disk partitioning wizard (this loads all necessary modules for ide harddisk support), change to second console, mount /dev/hda1 on /target, chroot /target, apt-get install lilo, create simple /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot.
For newer (bleeding edge ;)) software I have dist-upgraded to Hoary and added few things that waren't auto probed to /etc/modules:
psmouse # \ those two are rather weird
ide-cd # / to be not auto-probed.
p4_clockmod
cpufreq_userspace
cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_powersave
To enable hardware 3D support and XVideo extension I have installed xorg-driver-fglrx package and manually tweaked
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Only hibernation still causes problems -- ATI's Xorg drivers doesn't like wakeup process, probably using APM would fix this issue. Anyway, I can recommend this notebook to anyone who uses Linux as his primary operating system.
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