On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:31, Owen Stenseth wrote: > I think the buyer beware warning applies double for laptops, try not to impulse buy > because it's a good price. Go home and check that the laptop will meet your needs > and does not have hidden issues.
That's sound advice. I purchased a Dell after some through research on linux support, reviews and user experiences. For Dells I found a good indicator was to look through the support bulletin boards for the laptop in question to find any common issues. As for Linux support, after installing Knoppix which did a good chunk of the work, the fun parts were getting ACPI working properly, which required a custom kernel, as well as getting the Intel wireless going with ndiswrapper. I also spent some time getting reading up on getting cpu throttling working to save some battery life. In the end my only annoyance is the lack of hardware suspend to disk or ram. I did endure a day long fight with getting suspend to disk working with what was included in the stock kernel, but gave up as I could never get it completely happy. Although I may have to revisit this as I see a new version of Software Suspend is out... Best of luck, -- Matthew Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://magoazul.com _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
