Quoting Kimmo saarela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 19 Feb 2002, 19:28:30): > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 17:06, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > > Juergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:49:29 +0100: > > > - Do you expect problems with this laptop and debian? > > > Or - has anybody of you (good) experience with this laptop? > > > > There are some sites about success stories with Linux laptops, > > maybe you should take a look at some of them. Just make sure you > > know someone (running Windows) who will buy the thing from you > > if it really doesn't work.
Hope this will not happen! > > > - Is it better to take woody than 2.2r5 for this laptop? > > > > I think that's a good idea to take Woody.. The only Potato > > machine I still have here is my server, all the others run Woody > > already. Fine. > > Most important thing you should do is check out what VGA chip > > the laptop uses and see if XFree86 supports it. > > I got one of those, vga driver it trident cyberblade and 4.1 > version from X supports it. I'm running mine with sid, the ACPI's > DSTN-table of this laptop is non-standard. But visit at > www.linux-laptop.net and look over there. I visited http://fake.by-infonet.de/laptop/ already. Found it on www.linux-laptop.net. This site describes some points of installation from linux on armada. Jaxi, the maintainer, says that: "Installation of X is simple. The Trident Cyberblade chip works great when using the "trident"-driver. Simply set a resolution of 1024x768 and start :)" He uses 4.1.0 - because of that I asked for woody. > The DSTN - table can be fixed. ( but I'm not sure that it will run > on M$ windows after this ) I'm sorry, but really don't know anything about sid, ACPI, DSTN :( Hope fixing is not nessasary ;-) Thanks for all Juergen