On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, mukund wrote: > I am planning to invest in a low cost Laptop for demonstration of Process > Monitoring Software running under frame buffer in Linux. > I have following choices, > > 1. Dell Latitude XPI CD > -Pentium 166 mmx cpu, > -3.2 gb hdd > -32 bit PCI bus > -32 MB RAM, expandable
redhat installs fine on these but getting X to work is bit of an hassle, mainly because they come with an arcane bios which does not allow alloctaing different sizes for the video ram ( for integrated video cards). The default is 1Mb. One can squeeze in 1024 in locolor on it. Otherwise there is a kernel patch which can steal memory from bios, which allows better modes. However there are numerous latitude models, do check the video card coming with it. It ranges from nvidia to i830. Same goes for their inpiron sereis, you can give them a look too. They might be shade cheaper. http://www.linux-laptop.net would be a good place to look ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
