Serendipity

Fri, 09 Dec 2005

How I wrestled Linux onto the Clevo D870P

My boss at the time bought one of these expensive high end gamer's laptops for development use, having ignored all my discussions with him about cheaper and more suitable machines. As we developed under Linux I had to try and get the hardware working before I could use it ...

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Update: after this article was written, I suffered the most catastrophic filesystem corruption yet due to the Promise RAID driver bugs, and I was unable to recover from it. I gave the D870P back to my boss. After another six months, I saw him using it as a very hot, noisy and slow desktop, because the battery life had dropped to about 10 minutes ...