[via the November archive] >Andrew Clark said: >> I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any >> recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? > >If you're willing to pay new laptop prices, www.linuxlaptops.com will sell >you one with Linux preinstalled. Even if you don't buy from them, their list >of available models will give you some machines that are known to work well >with Linux. Highly recommended. > >Otherwise, I've got a UMax ActionBook 320T which works well, with two >caveats: > >1) The screen whines in X and UMax won't divulge the proper refresh settings >because "we only support Windows". Also, 800x600x32 works in Windows, but >I can't get it to work for X.
>From ERV's Monitor Service Monitor FAQs (http://www.monitorservice.com/faqs.html): [in response to many customers even in MSwin asking for "monitor drivers" they first explain how to tell if your monitor has plug-and-play support.] Common settings: The following sweep frequencies will be generally helpful to the users that set up the software for the monitors. and we will only list the common SVGA modes. * SVGA MODE VGA60 horizontal 31.469 khz vertical 59.941 hz. 640x480 * SVGA MODE VGA103 horizontal 46.874 khz vertical 75.000 hz 800x600 * SVGA MODE VESA85 horizontal 53.674 khz vertical 85.061 hz 800x600 * SVGA MODE VESA75 horizontal 60.023 khz vertical 75.029 hz 1024x768 * SVGA MODE VESA85 horizontal 68.667 khz vertical 84.997 hz 1024x768 * SVGA MODE VESA horizontal 63.981 khz vertical 60.020 hz 1280x1024 * SVGA MODE VESA85 P horizontal 91.146 khz vertical 85.024 hz 1280x1024 * SVGA MODE VESA75 horizontal 79.976 khz vertical 75.025 hz 1280x1024 * SVGA MODE VESA70 horizontal 87.500 khz vertical 70.000 hz 1600x1200 * SVGA MODE VESA75 horizontal 93.750 khz vertical 75.000 hz 1600x1200 The above listing represents the latest published info taken from a new monitor's users manual preset . Your settings may vary slightly depending on horizontal phase (position) settings. A very handy set of notes to keep around - perhaps it will help! >2) APM doesn't seem to like X either. If it goes to sleep/suspend while X >is up, the graphics card won't reset itself properly when it wakes up. >(Which can be worked around by telling BIOS to stay awake if it sees VGA >activity and always remembering to switch to a text console before closing >the cover.) > >It's not perfect, but it's workable and I'm happy with it. I had read that older X especially had a problem with apm, but I'm not sure if that's what you're suffering. >Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+:+ a- C+++ UL++>$ P+>+++ L++>++++ E- W+(--) N+ o+ !K >w--- O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+ Well, since you mentioned it, I haven't updated it in ages, but here's mine from last year: Version: 3.12 modified GCS/M/MU/LS/L/S/TW d- s-: a- C++ UL++++$S P++(---)$ L++' E--- W+++(L++) N !o !K w++(--) M+ V- PS+ PE@ Y+' PGP+ t@ 5++ X R+++ tv->! b++ DI++++ D+(---) G e+ h- r+++ x+++ -* Heather Stern * Starshine Technical Services * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-
