On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX?
I have, or actually my employer did. And it wasn't all that recently either. It was bought in december. But I'm answering anyways. > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. Hewlett packard Omnibook 4150 > I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class: > > 6-15 GB HD Mine has something like that, don't really know. It about 10-20% full. The ones that are for sale now have about 18 gigs i think. > 64-128 MB RAM Yepps, 128. Works great. > USB, serial, parallel I haven't tried USB or parallel, but serial works great. Finally I got IrDA working too. > floppy I used it during install. It would problary still work, if I needed it. > DVD instead of CD Yepps. But mine went broke. I did get it working with linux though. Watching Star Trek insurrection was NOT real time. > 14" color Yepps?! > external wheel mouse possible Yepps. But external mouse support only seems to work once without a reboot. I don't need to boot with a mouse inserted, but once the mouse is removed it requires a reboot to get it working a second session. > sound I felt forced to buy a commercial OSS license :( Neomagic-someting. > modem and/or Ethernet included Noops. I'm currently using a Xircom realport which workes really bad. Am waiting for a 3c575 to show up in my mail. I havn't had any problems with apm. The machine works quite ok. Some things could be better. If it wasn't for company policy, i would had bougt a thinkpad. /Martin
