Me again, I dropped the Toshiba and went with a Sony Vaio F340.
PII-366 96M ram 6.4G hdd 13" 1024x768 w/ Neomagic 256AV Neomagic2200 sound chip(supported by patch to 2.2.x kernels) internal winmodem(I don't really need it anyway) I also purchased a Xircom RealPort Ethernet RBE-100BTX pcmcia network card that according to the pcmcia-cs doc's is supported. My plan is to install base via floppy and then network to my existing desktop Debian machine and install the rest via network(modem on desktop). This will mostly be a traveling machine so I don't expect to install tons of apps on it. This is also my first laptop install and I have never delt with the pcmcia support so I am sure to learn alot this weekend. So what ever links and other sources that are not the obvious ones would be much appreciated. Brian *- On 14 Oct, Brian Servis wrote about "Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux" > > First time poster to debian-laptop, be kind, =). > > I am in a quick rush to get a laptop!!! Yeah!! Like TODAY or TOMMOROW. > I will be of course installing Debian and will need use it to dual boot > to Win9x, yuck. > > The Satallite series look really good for the money but what about > compatibility? It uses the Trident Cyber9525 video chip which is > supported by Xfree86. The sound is the ESS1978S chip which I didn't see > mentioned in the kernel docs, but it seems like the ESS chips are all > pretty similar. > > The video is only 800x600 on board but can go to 1280x1024x256 external. > > Any advice is appreciated or suggestion to go with someting else. > > Thanks, > > Brian Servis
