Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:01:56 +0100 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [snip] > > On my Acer Aspire (3690-2672), sound works out of the box. From lspci: > > That's encouraging. I must investigate further when I get back to mine >

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 14 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only > > > one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After > >

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >Hi you all, >I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to >receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. >thanx in advance The 'debian-laptop' list is an excellent resourc

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only > > one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After > > It took a while for ipw2200 to work right, I d

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi you all, > > I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to > receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. > > thanx in advance The Fujitsu P7120 wo

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only > one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After It took a while for ipw2200 to work right, I don't think iwlwifi is there yet (unless you're using 2.6.23-r

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI > > video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also > > the sound is a problem. They all do work but it

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI > video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also > the sound is a problem. They all do work but it is not fun. Get Intel wireless along with any thinkpad. A

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:57:38 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > Thanx for your replies. > > > > > > After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM o

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:57 AM, Richard Lyons wrote: Good Luck! All my laptops have been silent. But otherwise, all have run debian out of the box (not counting winmodems of course), old Thinkpads, old Dell, and even a new Acer Aspire. And the thinkpad keyboard puts all others in the shade. So

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:57:38 +0100 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > Thanx for your replies. > > > > After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. > > > > As suggested by Celejar I am now goin

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/9/12, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > Thanx for your replies. > > > > After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. > > > > As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for mo

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > Thanx for your replies. > > > > After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. > > > > As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more > > s

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Thanx for your replies. > > After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. > > As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more > specific trouble about sound cards as my first goal is

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific trouble about sound cards as my first goal is to get sound system perfectly working. Any other feedback about "sound system"

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > 2. Lenovo Thinkpad > Those *will* give you trouble for now. I speak this as the > maintainer for the kernel thinkpad-acpi module :-P As time passes, > we will learn enough about them to support them better. > I'd second

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Wayne Topa wrote: > Raffaele Morelli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to > > receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. > > 1. IBM Thinkpad Get a R52, T42 (best of

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to > receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. > > thanx in advance I have experience with Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505, Toshiba satellite P25-s507. I am pretty happy

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:50:15 + (GMT) Donald Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first question would be: > Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled? > > I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. > Nvidia support is excellent.

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:34 +0100, André César de Sá wrote: > Get a Toshiba / Asus.. :P I've been using Debian on a Toshiba M105-S3074 for nearly a year now and it runs great, despite all the talk about Toshiba ignoring Linux. As long as the hardware inside is not exotic, having official vendor's

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Donald Davis
My first question would be: Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled? I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. Nvidia support is excellent. ATI support (even with proprietary drivers) is not so great. Look at the internal wireles

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread André César de Sá
Get a Toshiba / Asus.. :P On 11/09/2007, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Raffaele Morelli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi you all, > > > > I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to > > receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in th

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Raffaele Morelli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi you all, > > I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to > receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. > > thanx in advance 1. IBM Thinkpad 2. Lenovo Thinkpad WT -- To the systems

debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance