"Pisut Tempatarachoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > Hi everybody, > > I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that > is most compatible with Debian. Could anyone please provide > me with comments on Debian GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or > more specifically Tecra S1 1.4 GHz) compatability, and > perhaps suggest which laptop I might consider apart from > Toshiba. > > Once I buy a laptop, I am planning to partition its hard drive > so I could use both Windows XP and Debian. Are there any > special specifications or configerations of the laptop that I > should look for when I shop around? > > Thank you very much folks. > > Cheers > > Tempo
I have a Toshiba T9000, and while it mostly works I have had "the usual" (for me anyway) toshiba problems with it. All toshiba keyboards, but for one I used 5 years ago, have been "broken". That is, the physical keyboard very often fails to register that you are just pressing a key, and instead thinks you very rapidly hitting it, causing it to generate multiple keypresses for a single key. This seems to be patched in the windows keyboard drivers, so while using windows you don't see it, but running linux you do... :-( There is a small patch for pc_keyb.c in the kernel floating around which fixes this, which I've been applying to the boxen I've been running, so it is fixable if Toshiba is your only choice, but if I was buying a toshiba privately I would be hesitant about paying money for this kind of stuff... Best Regards Tobbe -- ###################################################################### Torbjörn Pettersson # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vattugatan 5 # Web www.strul.nu/~tobbe S-111 52 Stockholm, Sweden # ######################################################################
