[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: > Can any happy (or unhappy) Debian-on-laptop users help me here with > information?
I'd say it depends a lot on the laptop in question. My own notebook is a slightly dated IPC PortaPC 5 with a 486DX33 processor, 8 MB RAM, 700 MB disk and a WD90C24A graphics controller. Debian runs just fine and dandy on that machine. At the university, we have two notebooks which are basically Texas Instruments workalikes with a Pentium-133 and 40 MB RAM, and they are great Debian machines -- I'm using one of them as my libc6 development machine, actually. The only thing about these is that the display is based on a Cirrus Logic chip which doesn't appear to be very well-supported by XFree86; I have to use an older version of the server which is the only one that seems stable. (The XFree people say that the particular driver hasn't been tested a lot.) In a nutshell, you will want to check carefully which graphics chip the computer is using, since this is the area with the most incompatibilities. Another thing that might be problematic is APM, as not all notebooks implement APM completely within the BIOS -- some do the power management stuff under Windows only. The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on. There is a `Linux Laptop Page' on the WWW which will be easy to find through Altavista etc. I don't really think this is a topic for debian-private so have Cc:-ed this answer to debian-user (which I don't have time to read myself :^(). Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ......................... [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them. --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .