On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:26:29PM +0100, marc wrote: Gerard Robin said... > Hello, > I intend to buy a laptop. I googled to find some information about laptops > which support linux Debian and the informations that I got concerned fairly > old laptops and no one works fine at 100%. > > Can someone give me some advices or give me a link to find some informations > about recents laptops. > > I would like that thee things work fine:
I can give you a bit of feedback on my recent install on a Fujitsu P7120 > Xwindow Working fine, but took some hand tweaking to get the full 1280x768 resolution and acceleration. X seems to be having some installation issues at the moment, so that probably applies to a lot of systems... > modem Havn't tried yet. Didn't seem to work 'out of the box' > ethernet card Fine - worked out of the box. > usb Also fine. > wifi You have to source the downloadable firmware yourself (license issues), but once installed, the Debian driver works. > power sleep Havn't messed with this yet. > printer Not usually a problem, but I suppose it depends on your printer and how you connect it. The P7120 has no IR or parallel port. But a PP can be added via a USB adapter. I normally print from my laptop using the network via a desktop. In hind sight, the one thing I really regret no researching in advance is the DVD drive. So far I have not found any 'multi-region' firmware updates for the Matsushita UJ-832 drive it uses, which makes it pretty useless as a DVD movie player if your DVD collection is as regionally diverse as mine is (or if you want to use it while travelling). Which is a disappointment, because I was hoping the notebook upgrade would save me from having to carry a separate DVD player when travelling... The salesperson claimed to be able to make it multi-region, but I later realised that they had just installed some Windows shareware program. I don't know if it works on windows, but it certainly doesn't help with Linux, so it doesn't help me :-/ I think the Sony VIO uses the same DVD drive, and there is a firmware update on the Sony web site which claims to multi-region it. If I had known this in advance, I probably would have gone for the Sony over the Fujitsu. My lesson for the future is to always carry a few move DVD's from from a couple of different regions, as well as the Linux LiveCD, when shopping for laptop/notebooks to make sure I don't fall victim to this regionalization con. If anyone knows of any way around this for my drive, please let me know. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
