Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-28 Thread Tony Godshall
Particulary if you want to support having linux available without mswindows since they've recently started making it available. Sure, it's Ubuntu, not Debian but it's definitely a step in the right direction. And no microsoft tax. And if you do put pure Debian on it, you have a fully working

Re: debian(izeable) laptop (sound)

2007-09-14 Thread Guillaume LĂ©croart
Hi, I'm using sounds on laptops for a while now, but I must admit that the quality cannot match what I could achieve with desktops. My feeling is that the electromagnetic geographic environment inside a laptop is too aggressive to design a proper D/A converter. Since I never had any strong

Re: debian(izeable) laptop (sound)

2007-09-14 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/9/14, Niklas Rehfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey Raffaele, I've never tried it on a laptop, (but I don't see why there would be a difference...) but I once tried to get a MOTU 828 firewire soundcard to work on my desktop, without even the slightest hint of success... but then again MOTU

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-13 Thread Alexandre Neubert
2007/9/12, Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi you all, Hello, I am new to debian-laptop. I would like to buy a laptop and install debian on it. Now that's a quite good idea ;) My goal is to get sound system working percfectly on it so I would like to have some feedback from the

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-13 Thread Andrea Ferraresi
Dell laptops are also a good choice to run linux and are less expensive than Thinkpads i have a fully working Vostro Ciao -- .''`. Andrea Ferraresi [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : irc.FreeNode.net #lslug | JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] . `` Registered Linux user #388877 and Machine #289399 `-

Re: debian(izeable) laptop (sound)

2007-09-13 Thread Niklas Rehfeld
Hey Raffaele, I've never tried it on a laptop, (but I don't see why there would be a difference...) but I once tried to get a MOTU 828 firewire soundcard to work on my desktop, without even the slightest hint of success... but then again MOTU is notorious for bad support. on the other hand,

debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I am new to debian-laptop. I would like to buy a laptop and install debian on it. My goal is to get sound system working percfectly on it so I would like to have some feedback from the list about this. debian-user list reported IBM Thinkpad to be a good host for debian; searching

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:47:08 +0200 Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi you all, I am new to debian-laptop. I would like to buy a laptop and install debian on it. My goal is to get sound system working percfectly on it so I would like to have some feedback from the list about

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-12 Thread Frank Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raffaele Morelli schrieb: Hi you all, Hi Raffaele, debian-user list reported IBM Thinkpad to be a good host for debian; searching the archives the sound system management seems to be a nightmare on some laptops (at least with some

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-12 Thread Heather W. Reichgott
Debian's sound worked perfectly on my IBM Thinkpad T60, no adjustments necessary. On 9/12/07, Frank Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raffaele Morelli schrieb: Hi you all, Hi Raffaele, debian-user list reported IBM Thinkpad to be a

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:00:36PM -0700, Heather W. Reichgott wrote: Debian's sound worked perfectly on my IBM Thinkpad T60, no adjustments necessary. I can add my noise about sound. I have at T60p (but running Ubuntu Feisty) and it also works perfectly. What sucks is the wireless -- and I'm

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
So, is there anybody happy with sound (e.g. with a semi-professional firewire soundcard) on his laptop? I suspect that this will be independent from the laptop: as long as firewire is properly supported (which it always has been for me), then the support for your firewire soundcard will only