New M6500 Discussion Thread

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Type

discrete

Data bus

PCI-Express x16 Gen 2 capable

Controller and Memory

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M (1 GB GDDR3 graphics memory)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M (1 GB GDDR3 graphics memory)
AMD ATI FirePro™ M7740 (1 GB GDDR5 graphics memory)

From my spec sheet for the m6500...didn't someone say the ATI was gddr3?

 

I don't know who that was but my ATI FirePro M7740 sure comes with DDR5. Here is the attached screenshot:

 

It's actually GDDR5 if you open up your notebook and search the P/N. Besides DDR5 doesn't exist.

 

I recall a discussion on NBR 'somewhere' about why the HP had gddr5 and the DELL gddr3.....heh, well wherever it was, it's wrong....

 

Think that was in regard to the nvidia 1800M that the M4500s can be optioned with. Not an ATI card.

 

Oops! GDDR5 is what I meant as you can see from the screenshot. *LOL*

So, anyone figured out how to fix the screen from showing the yellowish tint when sun shines on its left corner yet?

 

Put a piece of aluminum paper on the left part of the screen.
=> Problem fixed.

 

I own an M6500 for three weeks now and I'm running Debian Lenny on it with the backports kernel 2.6.32. 2.6.26 didn't detect the sound card.
Most of the things work fine, but burning DVD+RW with kernel 2.6.27 or later is incredibly slow with the tray load DVD drive HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-U20N while DVD-R(W) and CD-R(W) is fine.

I filed a bug report against the kernel:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578546

Does anybody observe the same problem? It should be independent of the distribution. It seems to be just a question of the kernel version. All kernels up to 2.6.26 burn DVD+RW quickly, but all later ones are down to 100-300kB/s.

 

*LOL* I would rather leave it as it is if that were the case. The problem is not that big a deal but it would be nice to know that it just caused by some setting I am missing somewhere.

 

Solved. It even matches the Covet.

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