On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:49:48 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin Hartman wrote: > > > So down to the "simple" question. Is this really normal on a PC-based > > Laptop to experience such pitfalls in installing Debian? > > With the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, not usually. With Dell, HP, Acer, etc, yes, > the experience is typical. This is a result of most laptop vendors not > documenting their hardware properly, or inability or unwillingness to share > the documentation with the people who bought the product or Linux > developers. Voting with your money is important when it comes to > compatability on Linux. I recently installed Sid on an Acer Aspire AS3690 (lowest end of the Aspire line), and I was actually impressed with how smoothly the whole thing went. Only one real problem (buggy hardware / software involving the rtc - this is aparently a common problem [0]). I don't have suspend / hibernate working properly yet, but I haven't tryed very hard. Even the wireless [Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One] worked almost out of the box, one just needs non-free firmware, which can be installed automatically with the 'bcm43-fwcutter' package. Incidentally, the 60GB HDD came with 3 partitions: ~27GB with Windows (several GB occupied by the OS, the remainder empty (virtually *no* silly trial apps or other worthless stuff - wow!), ~27GB empty, and ~5 for some sort of system restore. I just left the windows and restore partitions alone and deleted the empty one, replacing it with a half dozen more for linux. Very convenient. Celejar [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277298 and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/43661 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
