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    Linux on the 5760

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Jason Spaceman, Jul 19, 2006.

  1. Jason Spaceman

    Jason Spaceman Notebook Guru

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    Have any Sager 5760 owners here tried to install Linux on your machine? I'm thinking of dual booting mine between WinXP and Slackware Linux, but I'm wondering if I will run into any problems especially with the graphics card (I don't think Nvidia currently have a linux driver for the 7900 GTX).

    I'm assuming that I compile SMP support into the kernel, since I'm running a dual core CPU.
     
    Jason Spaceman, Jul 19, 2006
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  2. jkgfcjgchg

    jkgfcjgchg Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am currently awaiting a time slot in my schedule to install linux (likely Suse) on my 5760. I have tossed up the idea of Gentoo or Ubuntu as well.

    As for the kernel, yes smp will need to be enabled.
     
    jkgfcjgchg, Jul 20, 2006
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