I'm currently running Debian Stable (Sarge 3.1) on a Sony Vaio PCGV505 with Pentium M, 12.1" screen,
Radeon 9200 Mobility, 1GB RAM (no hi-mem kernel yet though :P). Hardware acceleration (as is
customary) works in single-display mode (i.e., just the built-in 1024x768 LCD). Running external
monit
I have a 2+ year old Gateway 200 arc notebook, Pentium M processor
with Centrino 802.11b, on-board Intel extreme graphics
I tried installing FC 3 and 4. Both of them installed into an
unusable graphics mode. So, I abandoned FC and tried SUSE 9.3 pro.
SUSE 9.3 pro installed successfully into a
I have been running Mandrake 9.1 on a Gateway 450SX4 for more than 2
years now - I have been running it pretty much "out of the box" for all
of that time. Suspend, hibernate, etc - NG, but I haven't cared enough
to try to do anything about it.
I am sluggish to move to 10.x because I depend on
Rob Hudson wrote:
> I have (had) a Dell Inspiron 1150 with Ubuntu 5.04. Suspend to ram and
> disk both worked but I had to select in the menu. I couldn't get it to
> work when the lid closed. I think it was something in the scripts that
> wasn't quite right but never figured it out. (And my
I've been using FC2 and 3 on one notebook and Kubuntu on my wife's.
Niether of them has a substantially functional Suspend to disk setup at
present though. My Work notebook in fact got screwed up when a client
closed the lid on me during the lunchbreak of a day long presentation.
Fedora seems to
Mr O wrote:
> Just curious what distro everyone is using on a laptop they
> might own and how well things like suspend-to-ram/disk and
> hibernate work for them? Speedstep doesn't seem to be an issue
> but proper widescreen has only worked "out of the box" on one
> distro out of three so far (FC4
I have (had) a Dell Inspiron 1150 with Ubuntu 5.04. Suspend to ram and
disk both worked but I had to select in the menu. I couldn't get it to
work when the lid closed. I think it was something in the scripts that
wasn't quite right but never figured it out. (And my laptop since died
on me 1
Just curious what distro everyone is using on a laptop they
might own and how well things like suspend-to-ram/disk and
hibernate work for them? Speedstep doesn't seem to be an issue
but proper widescreen has only worked "out of the box" on one
distro out of three so far (FC4 worked, Mandriva 10.2 a
