NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

[Robert L Cochran]

I have the Latitude E6400 and it is pretty nice. I'm using it right now 
with Fedora 11. I'm using the 160M video card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M 
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Dell Device 0233
     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
     Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
     Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
     Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
     I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
     [virtual] Expansion ROM at f4000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
     Capabilities: <access denied>
     Kernel modules: nouveau

I also use this same computer with Fedora 10. I have two hard drives and 
I swap these in a lot depending on which OS I want to use.

Good points about the E6400:

it is pretty fast if you get a processor with a lot of L2 and plenty of 
RAM (I have 4 Gb).
It can drive a 24" monitor at 1900 x 1200 resolution.
It is not too heavy but a netbook is less weight. In fact a netbook 
might be a better choice if you just want to surf the web and send email 
and develop on the Arduino platform.
The built-in webcam works great in Fedora!

Bad points about the E6400:

the keyboard backlight feature doesn't work well
It is difficult to get the plastic protector out of the SD card slot
the Intel 5300 agn wireless card does not seem to work well in Microsoft 
Windows, but is okay in Fedora! In fact the 5300 on my unit constantly 
drops connections when used in Microsoft Windows, to the point where I 
either connect a network cable to it or disable the wireless and use a 
USB wireless module.

Bob




On 05/21/2009 05:15 PM, François Patte wrote:
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> Bonsoir,
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> I am going to buy a Dell laptop (Latitude E6400) with nvidia graphic
> card Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With PC-Card
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> Is this card working under fedora 10?
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> Does anybody have experienced this laptop?
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> Thanks for any answer.
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> - --
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université Paris Descartes
> 45, rue des Saints Pères
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