--- In [email protected], "Harold Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I belong to more than one group and have read of some laptop problems
> with different aspects of Linux, ie sound, video, etc.
>
> My wife keeps whining for a laptop. Of course it will have to run XP
> but I would like to install Linux on it too. I don't want to buy one
> that has problems with Linux.
>
> Do any of the following have problems with Linux that anyone knows of:
> HP
> Dell
> Acer
> Gateway.
>
> I am not hung up on a particular brand name but it's going to be my
> wife's laptop that I will use some of the time. Don't even know if I
> can buy any of the above without Vista on them. Probably not. If I
> have to buy Vista I delay the purchase until I can find something
> different or just delete it and install XP.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
Under the assumption that whatever computer you buy has Windows
already installed, before you convert it over to Linux (or set it up
to dual-boot, if you're feeling adventurous) you can make use of that.
My laptop (Compaq Presario V2000) had the drivers in c:\Program
Files\Broadcom\* The key is, if you're not going to preserve the
Windows installation, *find* those directories/files and copy them off
to a USB key for later reference. That way, you don't have to guess
with generic *.ini files downloaded from wherever, you will have *.ini
tailored precisely for your machine.
What I was able to do, with my XP install intact (in hda1) and mounted
to "/media/win_xp" under Linux, was to reach into the XP partition on
the command line for "ndiswrapper -i" command.
Don't forget to blacklist any competing drivers, and "modprobe -r"
them, using either "su -c" or "sudo" as appropriate.
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