On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:53 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > Video: > > Some of the recent intel chipsets are not supported well in etch but are ok > with lenny. > > compare: > http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-xorg-video-i810 > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xserver-xorg-video-intel
Ok - I can cope with that. Either run lenny or perhaps a backported xserver? > Recent ati cards are a real trap. There aren't even free 2D drivers available > for them due to some problems with an NDA, apparently. It's worthwhile > looking at them very carefully if you want to avoid fglrx. There are some > experimental drivers around that are slowly coming up to speed for these > cards, but they are certainly not in Debian atm. Right. Certainly sounds like I want to steer clear of ATI (or at least the new ones; the rage128 in my desktop seems fine) > > Wireless: > > As you said, intel is pretty easy to use. 2100 and 2200 seem fine but I don't > know there are too many of them around any more. 3945 is supported well with > etch but you need to run the non-free regulatory daemon which you may not > want to do. There is a new driver for 3945 and 4695 (the iwl driver) which > will not need the regulatory daemon as all that has been pushed into the > firmware. It's microcode (firmware) is in sid and the driver is destined for > mainline kernel in the next release or so. Those who use it say it's > wonderful, but I gather it's not as easy to get working as this page implies: > > http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=howto-iwlwifi Ok - worth a go to get that going, with the other as a fallback/temporary solution. > finding out about whether suspend-to-disk or -ram works beforehand can be a > good idea. Some drivers don't like suspend (fglrx used not to but seems to > these days, ipw3945 comes up a bit groggy but reinserting the module fixes > that). Checking that has to be on a per-machine basis then? LOL - in googling for this, I have discovered that someone else at my workplace seems to have one of these laptops, so I can interrogate him too :-) Thanks a lot. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
