My combination is a Digital VP 745 with a Xircom card.
Have installed Mandrake and RedHat. Works like a charm. Currently with
Mandrake.
The crystal sound device is recognised, display is at 1024x768 with NeoMagic
and the Xircom 56 CEM card works straight out of the box.
In fact the Mandrake install is so straightforward, that it gets downright
boring. (Won't get the opportunity to dick around with configuration files
etc.. as everything gets pretty much recognised....) Insert the CD and
answer a few questions and away it goes.
-- Aravind
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> Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 10:11
> To: Ka-shu Wong
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux laptops
>
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ka-shu Wong wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run
> > linux.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid,
> > etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux
> to run on
> > laptops?
>
> Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux and SuSE have all
> installed without problems - even to running X at 1024x768 in 16bpp mode.
>
> It even co-installed with Evilware.
>
> Couple of caveats - the inbuilt modem and sound card won't work {well,
> SuSE claims to identify it, all I have to do is figure out how to
> configure the sound card}, but it didn't worry me because my network
> PCMCIA card has a modem and 10/100 LAN in it.
>
> APM is somewhat dicky in its shutdown sometimes. Don't know why, and
> frankly since I run on mains most of the time, I don't care.
>
> Other than that, Linux works fine.
>
> DaZZa
>
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