Thank you for the pointer. I'll try that list.
On Dec 10, 2007 2:44 AM, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 1:27 AM, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I'm thinking that I also switch my notebook's OS to Debian. > > Before starting this switch, I like to hear some comments from > > people who's using Debian on their notebook. > > Is there any annoyance? > > You might want to subscribe to the debian-laptop list, since there > will be a lot of laptop-specific traffic there, and you might get more > prompt responses to questions. That being said, I've been running > Debian sid on my Thinkpad T23 for several years, and I've been very > happy with it. Laptops can be a mixed bag, hardware-wise, so it's > more likely that you'll run into an issue where there's no Free > driver. If you've got all Intel hardware, this shouldn't be a > problem. > > > One thing I worry is battery management > > where Apple's MacBook is very good at. > > OS X's sleep mode is just works. I love it so much. > > Check out acpi, acpid, and acpitools. Also powertop, which will help > you tweak your system to minimize wakeups-from-idle. You can > configure acpid to respond to various events like function keys, > close-lid, and open-lid. See /usr/share/doc/acpid. > > -- > Michael A. Marsh > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh > http://mamarsh.blogspot.com > http://36pints.blogspot.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
