On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Dieter Ebner wrote: >Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > >Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved >problems. > >I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class:
I've got a Thinkpad 600E, Celery 400, 192M, 10G. >USB, serial, parallel Never had access to any USB devices. Serial works fine. Parallel worked fine on my last Thinkpad and I don't expect any problems there. >floppy No problems. >DVD instead of CD I didn't get a DVD. I wouldn't really be able to do anything with it in Linux. >14" color 1024x768x16bpp. The screen could do 24bpp, but 16 is slow enough when using the frame buffer. >external wheel mouse possible 3 button track-point is built in. I expect that I could just plug in an external 3 button mouse. >sound cs4232 sound module is loaded and working. I have to reload it after every suspend. >modem and/or Ethernet included Every modem or Ethernet PC-card I plug in works. There is a built-in win-modem, but there aren't enough free IRQs left to run it even if I had drivers (it needs 2 IRQs). No built in Ethernet. -- My current location - X marks the spot. X X X
