The Dell Inspiron 7500s are great. -Jeff
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:47:31PM -0700, Don wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity have you contacted IBM at all? They support Linux on
> > thier laptops I'm juts not sure to what extent or if its only for specific
> > models. Currently I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a Compaq Armada and it was
> > less than fun getting it installed as well but eventually I got it working
> > properly. There is a ton more support than there used to be (about 3 years
> > ago) for laptops ..... Linux was never really meant to be a laptop O/S but
> > its gotten to a point where once you do get it working, it's solid as a
> > rock. Another thing to check would be the site for your distribution to
> > see what it shows for supported hardware etc and maybe look into grabbing a
> > different distribution. Good Luck!!
> >
> > Lonny Selinger
> > Systems Adminstration Associate
> > EDS Canada
>
> I have had a great deal of success running Mandrake 7.1 on my thinkpad 2611 450.
> Originally I tried Slackware, and then Mandrake 7.0-2, but neither one would
> work with my sound card (YamahaOPL3SA2) However LM7.1 loaded great, 30
> Minutes, and when I ran sndconfig at the command prompt, it loaded the correct
> drivers.
>
> Don ....
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> 73 de KK6WJ
