On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:08:09 +0100 James used the keyboard to craft this: >|Iain Georgeson wrote: >|> It's not. I've got Debian on my A417M, but it took a considerable >|> amount of surgery, and I'm still missing support for some fairly handy >|> bits like suspend and soft keys. >| >|Could you shed some light on what was difficult please? Which version of >|Debian did you use? >| >|> >|>>I have seen posts claiming "Sony make the least Linux-friendly" laptops >|>>and others where people couldn't get the install CD to recognise the >|>>harddisk in a similar Vaio model. >|> >|> >|> Indeedy. If you want an easy install, don't get it. The display is >|> excellent, but you may well decide you don't want the hassle. >|> >| >|Do you think Debian support for the VGN A series will improve over time >|and maybe a future release will be much easier to install? >| >|Anyone know of other laptops with a 17" screen? >| >|Thank you everyone for your time. >|Regards, >| >|James.
I have an Acer Aspire 1355LC with that size screen and I would be reluctant to recommend it because I had trouble with it when I never usually had trouble with any other machine, though this is my first lappy. YMMV Partly my fault as i should have made sure it had a serial port for an external modem, because am on dial up due to isolated area. So use a USB to RS232 cable to use the modem. Which works fine, but only in Debian. In Mandrake 10.O it would connect but the pppd daemon would die. Later Mandrivers 10.1, 10.2 would not install. Only Debian Sarge installs with a 2.6.xx kernel of any flavour. But I use the 2.4.xx because it allows my touchpad to tap. The 2.6.xx kernels work with the touchpad, but certainly not allow it to tap, no matter what way I write the XF86config-4 file. I did run an experimental Debian Sarge system making certain that everything worked, and to test things out on this machine, before I made it the main O/S. BUt so far it works a treat. But all in all Debian Sarge seems to work well enough on it. I have left it as a dual boot for the moment, but seeing I'm not using windows it will soon become native. I think that many of my problems might be due to my own lack of Linux knowledge. So I wouldn't like to bag Acer too much. Hope this helps. Charlie +++++++ Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. .............................Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Really starting to enjoy Linux Debian Sarge _____________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
