On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 18:16 -0700, Bill M. wrote:
> Subject says a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, new as of August 2004. Has
> Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 video w/32 Mb video RAM, running Windows XP
> Home on NTFS with 32 Gb available.
>
> I've previously run Mandrake 8.1, 8.2, Su8.2 Pro (boxed edition) on an
> older laptop now dead -- no dual-boot. I was fairly happy with SuSE 8.2.
> I'd like to make this laptop dual-boot and am considering SuSE 9.2 Pro
> (download edition) or maybe Ubuntu (Live CD works great with the "NV"
> video driver option.) I run Debian Sarge on another machine and have
> always had no great luck getting X to run in Debian -- video driver
> problems usually.
>
> The biggest things I am concerned about is the Nvidia driver and the
> Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 802.11g card (none of the live CDs I've tried
> ever found it, configured it, enabled it.) Of course, power management
> and standard, modern laptop options. Another concern is avoiding bloat
> -- I want the option to load lightweight desktops if I so desire. I'm
> fairly certain that I'll be setting up a FAT32 partition to share data
> (read & write support) between Windows XP and the whatever Linux distro
> I install.
>
> Any thoughts from the list on good distros for laptop? Any experience
> with distros that seem to be best for laptops? Thanks in advance for any
> and all help/suggestions.
>
> -*-Bill
I currently am running MDK 10.1 ( DVD version) dual booting with XP home
on NTFS. It's a fresh install since the harddrive just bailed out and I
had to replace it. (Noisiest failure I've ever heard!) It knew that my
laptop was a toshiba, and enabled the toshiba controls and the acpi
stuff so all my devices would work. it found and configured my firewire
port and the nvidia driver works fine as long as you install the kernel
source first if you're going to download the nvidia driver from nvidia's
site. If you do an "expert" install, you can pick blackbox, WM, or any
number of desktops. ( Hit "F1" instead of enter when starting the
install for the expert option.) I haven't tried the wireless card yet,
but I'm sure it won't be a big issue.
HTH
stormi
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