<inside interest> Gee, with all the other brands being plugged, it would be remiss of me not to mention that my fairly new HP Compaq nc6320 is a beautiful thing. As Jeff promoted, Intel graphics chipsets are a good thing. Out of the box it does very nice 3D for Beryl and games using the Intel 945GM chipset. Speed control for the dual core 1.66G CPU does nicely (though for Ubuntu I had to add a hotplug script to get it to change the speed governor nicely between battery and AC.) The Broadcom Gig ethernet works out of the box, but I had to use ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless chip. The memory card reader needed a "setpci" poke to get it to work. I haven't tried getting bluetooth, the modem or fingerprint reader working as yet.
Of course not all HP laptops are the same (I think you will find most vendor's chipsets appearing in at least one of our models :-) - but I suspect that this may be a similar story across other vendors. </inside interest> Regards, Martin Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Davie Sent: Friday, 2 March 2007 7:35 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:28:22 +1100 Rich Buggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine > is Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me > problems. :( > > Rich > > -- > BarCamp Sydney - March 3, 2007 > http://www.barcampsydney.org/ > > > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Russell Davie"> > > > > > A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that > > > would run Linux. > > > > > > Which is a good choice? > > > > I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a > > big hint that will help your purchasing decision: Buy Intel, from > > top to bottom. You will have a massively better experience using > > Linux with a completely Intel based laptop, particularly the video chipset. > > > > > They also want training as they have never used Linux before. > > > > > > Who could do this? is this available as a computer based learning or DVD? > > > > Perhaps look around on the OSIA website: http://www.osia.net.au/ > > > > - Jeff > > Hi Thanks for all who responded so promptly on and off list for help with getting a laptop. 1) get Intel chipset, avoid the rest 2) Dell, IBM and Toshiba work, (highest number of replies first) training? still hunting.. cheers Russell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
