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Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

ichoXvida — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:26:00 -0000

The processor was found to be swappable but major modification was needed for adequate cooling, and as of yet there isn't a simple solution, most of the posted cpu swaps are severely underclocked from the capability of the swapped cpu (still faster though from the stock L110) and unstable without the appropriate cooling mods required...

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

thoi trang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:10:53 -0000

Hi, could you post a lspci on the lt3013? Also, is powernow running on opensolaris to scale down the cpu frequency? Thanks,

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Buy web hosting — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:44:15 -0000

I know the battery life would be cut in half or more, and it would void the warranty, but is it doable? Could the power supply and cooling handle this sort of thing? Will the motherboard recognize the processor or do you need some sort of software or hardware clock setting thing? Is the processor soldered on or socketed?

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ichoXvida — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:05:47 -0000

im running win7 x64. Using synaptics touchpad driver from the aspire one 751 support downloads, the x1200 series driver from amd/ati's download page (it's under integrated - mind you the driver is legacy) the Atheros hb35 wifi driver from the gateway driver disc (made by the restore prg) - GATEWAY has these drivers now on their site. Using beta google chrome, it's at version 4.0.202.x now (might be dev build)

Running bitcomet 1.1.4 and trying to use facebook and youtube videos in differnt tabs does dog it down but thats only annoying and nothing more. honestly you'd be rather inefficient if you're running a bunch of programs for no reason, you can't be paying attention to all of those tabs so having more than 3 tabs is really pointless.

it's a shame Flash is a cpu-hog. thats something Adobe should be responsible for, making the flash plug-in scaleable, theaded, and add the possibility for hardware-acceleration is the only way flash video will ever be useful on netbooks such as this l110 or the n280 cpu.

regarding external dvd writers. if you already have a desktop with a dvd burner internal of the ide/sata type and you feel cheap. I'd suggest something like this usb dongle, most computer shops with carry some version of it and it's not that expensive: http://bit.ly/IYptL or ebay search for ide to usb or ide to sata. for 15 bux you get to use your full size dvd burner. or hard drive or whatever.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:04:50 -0000

It looks like the direct link is too long to enter here. Just go to

http://support.acer.com/

Driver Downloads/Netbook/Aspire One/A0751h

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:59:27 -0000

Here you go... its from the Acer support website for the H751 netbook. You can find other drivers too like the sound driver if you want to try it.

http://global-download.acer.co...

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

jcoeng — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:50:52 -0000

Got it direct from Gateway Support site...
http://support.gateway.com/sup...

I didn't have an issue with SATA/IDE drivers, only the video and touchpad.

Any idea what touchpad drivers you are using to keep the multitouch etc.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:08:27 -0000

The driver actually comes from MS Windows Update. You definitely need to hook it up to the Internet to get the right display driver. Where exactly did you find the AMD/ATI chipset driver? I find the southbridge ATI driver from ATI and manually forced to load the ATI SATA/IDE controller drivers for Win 7 64 bit.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

jcoeng — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:36:15 -0000

I just purchased this same system and installed Win7 x32 RTM on it but can't get the video drivers to work. I also installed the AMD/ATI VGA chipset from the Gateway support website but this didn't work, I am stuck at 1080x768 and can't go up to 1366 nor access the Catalyst Control Center.

I was able to get the wireless working without much issue but I'm having trouble getting all of the touchpad functionality back. What drivers did you install for the touchpad?

Any ideas on the video?

Thanks,

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

tirnaog — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:15:02 -0000

How did ye manage to get win764 on this PC without a external DVD drive?

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

jimslinux — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:33:48 -0000

Typing on my new Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook, using both OpenGEU Linux as I like the enlightment 17 GUI, look and feel and also Crunchbang or #! linux for its speed.
Crunchbang went without a hitch. 64bit linux with background apps. totally controlled is making it real difficult to choose the windowz boot on the grub menu.
OpenGEU went well except, since it uses a little bit older Kernel, I had to install the newer Ath9k for this wireless chip-set.
Also the ati radeon x1270 is no longer supported in the fglrx driver. I am using the opensource radeonhd to chipset but out of using heavy compositing. I Have a separate harddrive that I plan to experiment with using Radeonhd x1200 as well as other Ati/Opensource drivers. If I blow it up, to the point beyond xorg.cofig then just reinstall.
Midori browser loads instantly, Firefox a little longer but can watch apple movie tailors, any size, in full HD using totom-browser plugin, sweet!
Touch pad and scroller worked out of the box in live CD mode.
Yes I bought the CD/DVD Asus 08D1S-U. This black, glossy little thing, looks outstanding next to this little netbook.
Gateway releasing Atom 270, after others release there 280's and Z530/40's surprises me.
Can't get enough of this little thing.
Final note that battery life in windows is much longer then Linux, but after two hours and a half my coffee shop is throwing me out anyway.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:25:59 -0000

Yeah, all I had to do was put a flashcard in and it worked fine. I was used to Vista where it shows the drive letter even when there's no flashcard in the reader. The drive doesnt show up until I put the card in.

On another note, I couldnt be happer wit this netbook. It's still much much faster than any other netbook that I've seen (even netbooks priced much higher) and definitely the best screen I've seen period on a netbook (brighter, crisper higher res) when compared to all the other netbooks. the 11.6" 1366x768 screen is the "sweetspot" for netbooks; at least for me. I also could never get used to 10" netbook keyboards that are smaller than full size.

BTW, I've come to realize that the Atom processor completely sucks compared to the Athlon 64 in this PC; at least when using 64 bit Windows 7. The 1.2Gz version of the Atom proccessor and respective Intel chipset is unusably dog slow. I know, because I had both this the LT3103U and the Acer One A0751H side by side. Im guessing Intel Atom CPU would need a 2Ghz processor or faster to compete with the AMD 1.2Ghz.

I never really cared for AMD before; in fact this is my first AMD based machine ever since AMD were first made. But, this machine just screams with speed and responsiveness with Windows 7 64bit (using the latest 64 bit drivers, chipset drivers).

The only problem I have is I cant find a place that sells 3cell batteries for this netbook (or the Acer A0751H). The only way I know how to get it is buying the 751 just for it's battery. But thats being very picky. It just would be nice to have the 3 cell battery available as well.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

angelo — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:28:19 -0000

I wonder how linux will do on these machines. They are pretty nice - saw one today at best buy and am considering it.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

JamesT — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:47:03 -0000

Yeah jefferios, but its a lower end atom model with half the battery (3 cell), less screen resolution (1024x600) smaller HDD (160 GB), less RAM (1GB) for just $100 less than the LT3103u.

Enough reasons to conclude that the LT3103u is a better bargain, IMO.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

jefferios — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:41:38 -0000

mine worked just fine on Windows 7 RC. (card reader) I don't know what you will need to do.

Has anyone noticed that Gateway just released a new netbook which is 10 inches. It has a Atom processer.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:59:49 -0000

Any who can help, I'd greatly appreciate it! I need these drivers to expose the SD controller so I can install the cardreader drivers (I already have the cardreader drivers).

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:54:58 -0000

Krunker, could you please do me a huge favor and look for the AMD chipset drivers that comes on your DVD? I made the mistake of installing Windows 7 without creating the DVD. I need the chipset drivers (particularly the 64 bit ones for Vista). I have looked for hours and cant find them anywhere on the Internet; and, of course, Gateway doesnt provide these Laptop's drivers online. The Acer website has the chipset drivers for the Intel mobile platform only. You can email me at mkanet@yahoo.com.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

James — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:15:55 -0000

@Joanmarie

Thanks for the info. How much battery life do you get on a single charge?

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fixture — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:55:50 -0000

Wow, Joanmarie, thanks for the info.

Could you tell if the process P-state and C-states are working if there is no frequency scaling? Also, if powertop exists on solaris, could you read off the power consumption on typical usage? I guess the number kinda depends on whether the Opensolaris kernel is tickless or issues halt on idle. Thanks

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

Joanmarie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:30:02 -0000

Given that AMD has told me that this CPU does NOT support PowerNow, my guess is that your suggestion that "AMD might support it but the gateway BIOS is what is not enabling it" is erroneous.

And, no, I'm afraid I couldn't try using a "windows only" utility because I don't use Windows. Sorry!

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:28:16 -0000

Sorry for the double-post. I'm not exactly where to post a new question.

I'd like to know all of you that installed Windows 7 64 bit, how you managed to pull off getting the card reader to work, I tried the Realtek USB 2.0 card reader drivers from Acer's site with the 64 bit drivers in it, but nothing changes after running the executable. I'm guessing because there isnt a respective yellow exclamation mark for an SD Reader. The system should show the SD Reader in the device manager, but it doesnt. How do I get Windows 7 to show the SD reader in device manager so I can even install the driver.

Thanks!

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

James — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:17:17 -0000

Hey joanmarie,

I'm glad you like your gateway netbook too. I am a bit suspicious of the PowerNow feature. Could it be that the AMD might support it but the gateway BIOS is what is not enabling it. I checked on the opensolaris forum you mentioned that there were no PowerNow settings you found in the default BIOS.

Out of curiosity, could you please try using a great power saving utility (windows only) called RM Clock (cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmc... and try to check if its possible to do what the BIOS and PowerNow would have 'automatically' done, manually ... i.e tweak the voltage/ frequency to optimize battery and run it a little more cooler? RM Clock can easily let you 'underclock' when idle AND 'overclock' when under load ... care to share your experience with it? - Thanks, James