Dell Inspiron 8200 with a radeon card. xfree was/is a pig, especially trying to use the LCD at high resolution and the external at a lower one for a projector, and an ext monitor at a different res again. Nvidia cards were less fuss! (by the way, does anyone have an XF86Config that will allow the LCD to run at a different resolution to the the external monitor AT THE SAME TIME with on a radeon M9?) When dell first released the 8000, there were lots of problems with the hardware (no drivers/setups available), so steer clear of newest models - desktop hardware is relatively constant and evolutionary, laptops ....
Expect some fun when trying to set it up as lots of issues that desktops dont generally have (odd hardware, suspend, moving across networks, int/ext monitors/keyboards/mouse, touchpads. Overall, Mandrake (8.2 days!) was less fuss at first (most things were already set up), but gentoo is far better once that hurdle is over. You just keep emergeing, instead of blotting the disk every 6 months when a new distro comes out, and then go through the whole setup thing again and again. Gentoo is for the long haul! BillK On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:08, Wrolstad, Andy wrote: > I have gentoo running on a Dell Inspiron 8200. > (1.8mhz 256 meg) > > Really no issues that I ran across that were in anyway laptop specific. > (I have it on four other desktop systems) > > Just user error/ignorance of a general sort. :^) > > My only concern was heat...a 14+ hour compile can generate alot of heat in a > laptop. > But that also never seemed to be an issue. > Hardware....no problems (modem, DVD, ethernet, nvidia card, etc....) > > So I'd say give it a go.... > > Happy Gentoo'ing > > -Andy- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo > > > I'm getting a laptop soon. Not the latest model, but reasonably useable > (aiming for somewhere around 800 MHz, 256 meg). > > I'm using Gentoo on my desktop machine and I like it. I wonder if any of you > > have opinions on Gentoo on a laptop. I realize that the usual > set-aside-a-day-to-compile-kde rules apply, but other than that, is Gentoo a > > wise choise for laptops? My theory is that as Gentoo is very customizable, > and as you _have_ to compile your own kernel, the odds that you're gonna get > > your hardware working is good. > > Any comments? Or does anyone have good experiences with other distros on > laptops? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
