So if you’ve been reading here, then clearly you’ve got too much time on your hands. Or you found this site through a geeky search because you’re trying to accomplish something.
Maybe you’ve been following the trials and tribulations of my efforts at getting Linux functional on my HP Pavilion tx1320us (also known generically as part of the tx1000 series).
Here’s the tally thus far: Dual-boot CentOS 5 (64bit) and Fedora 8 (32bit). CentOS is for everyday use, but since there are a good number of packages that simply will not run on a 64bit OS, I decided to put a 32bit Fedora in there as well.
One caveat, my touchscreen stopped working. This appears to be a hardware problem, and seems to be common among HP Pavilion owners.
CentOS: Wireless works, VPN works, printing works, sound works (after installing the Alsa drivers directly from the Realtek site).
Fedora: Wireless works, VPN does NOT work under Gnome NetworkManager, but I don’t think that’s a function of the laptop, I think it’s a bug in the current release of Fedora’s NetworkManager packages.
I’ve configured the OSes to share a /home partition, so that no matter which I am booted under, I have access to my files and documents.
I have VMWare installed under both OSes, with the virtual machine directory set to my shared /home directory, so that I can open my VMs in either host OS.
Next steps, sometime in the next week, are to add XP and Vista to the mix in the multiboot arena, so that I have direct access to the hardware from all operating systems.
I believe this will eventually give me ALL of the flexibility I need in a laptop — being able to run any OS and access all of my files.
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