I am at the second laptop now. And I had trouble installing Slackware on both. With the first one, a MSI L720, I had problems with sound and wireless but I had them working after a week of net digging and a few hours of kernel hacking. With today's kernels it would probably work out of the box now that RaLink wifi drivers are in the kernel. The last problem I had with it, probably because of RoHS, some solder joints got some tiny cracks. Lucky me - for now just on the power lines.
The second one, a HP Pavilion dv6700, all worked fine with Linux except the wireless drivers. It seems that I got a particular Atheros chip that took me more than 2 months of net search to have it working. Only a mysterious combination of drivers and HAL binaries work for it. Keep an eye on madwifi project if you choose HP. On the other side, the reason I write this message from the HP is because it can play Openarena and Nexuiz very very well. And I like to see the CPU down from 2GHz to 800MHz when no serious computation power is needed. Other than these, I miss the 17'' screen and the full keyboard (with numpad) from the old MSI. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user