ESS Maestro was RE: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Jordan Howarth
olemd> a bit of size and weight I very much recommend it. ATI Rage PRO LT olemd> chip set, supported in latest XFree86. Sound card is ESS Maestro 2 - olemd> beta support at best, but I can listen to my mp3s and that's really all olemd> I need ;-) I just got Debian working on a V

ESS Maestro was RE: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Jordan Howarth
olemd> a bit of size and weight I very much recommend it. ATI Rage PRO LT olemd> chip set, supported in latest XFree86. Sound card is ESS Maestro 2 - olemd> beta support at best, but I can listen to my mp3s and that's really all olemd> I need ;-) I just got Debian working on a V

Re: Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 16:33, Brian Servis wrote: > This is also my first laptop install and I have never delt with the > pcmcia support so I am sure to learn alot this weekend. So what ever > links and other sources that are not the obvious ones would be much > appreciated. The one gotcha is w

Re: Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 16:33, Brian Servis wrote: > This is also my first laptop install and I have never delt with the > pcmcia support so I am sure to learn alot this weekend. So what ever > links and other sources that are not the obvious ones would be much > appreciated. The one gotcha is w

Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-14 Thread Brian Servis
Me again, I dropped the Toshiba and went with a Sony Vaio F340. PII-366 96M ram 6.4G hdd 13" 1024x768 w/ Neomagic 256AV Neomagic2200 sound chip(supported by patch to 2.2.x kernels) internal winmodem(I don't really need it anyway) I also purchased a Xircom RealPort Ethernet RBE-100BTX pcmcia ne

Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-14 Thread Brian Servis
Me again, I dropped the Toshiba and went with a Sony Vaio F340. PII-366 96M ram 6.4G hdd 13" 1024x768 w/ Neomagic 256AV Neomagic2200 sound chip(supported by patch to 2.2.x kernels) internal winmodem(I don't really need it anyway) I also purchased a Xircom RealPort Ethernet RBE-100BTX pcmcia ne

RE: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
>> As for a better machine - we use HP and Compaq here. Some HP machines are >> very flimsy (3000), the Compaq ones are well built but expensive. >> personally I wouldn't buy either! >In that case, which would you buy ;-) Work just give me one so I don't need to go to the trouble of speccing the

RE: Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
>> As for a better machine - we use HP and Compaq here. Some HP machines are >> very flimsy (3000), the Compaq ones are well built but expensive. >> personally I wouldn't buy either! >In that case, which would you buy ;-) Work just give me one so I don't need to go to the trouble of speccing the

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread olemd
On 14 Oct, Simon Ghent wrote: > Personally I'd recommend getting one that can display at least 1024x768 on > it's own screen - 800x600 is very limiting (unless you're doing text only). I very much agree on this - 1024x768 is very nice, but usually rather expensive... I have Dell Inspiron 7000 with

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread olemd
On 14 Oct, Simon Ghent wrote: > Personally I'd recommend getting one that can display at least 1024x768 on > it's own screen - 800x600 is very limiting (unless you're doing text only). I very much agree on this - 1024x768 is very nice, but usually rather expensive... I have Dell Inspiron 7000 with

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
Personally I'd recommend getting one that can display at least 1024x768 on it's own screen - 800x600 is very limiting (unless you're doing text only). As for a better machine - we use HP and Compaq here. Some HP machines are very flimsy (3000), the Compaq ones are well built but expensive. persona

RE: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Simon Ghent
Personally I'd recommend getting one that can display at least 1024x768 on it's own screen - 800x600 is very limiting (unless you're doing text only). As for a better machine - we use HP and Compaq here. Some HP machines are very flimsy (3000), the Compaq ones are well built but expensive. persona

Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Brian Servis
First time poster to debian-laptop, be kind, =). I am in a quick rush to get a laptop!!! Yeah!! Like TODAY or TOMMOROW. I will be of course installing Debian and will need use it to dual boot to Win9x, yuck. The Satallite series look really good for the money but what about compatibility? It us

Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux

1999-10-14 Thread Brian Servis
First time poster to debian-laptop, be kind, =). I am in a quick rush to get a laptop!!! Yeah!! Like TODAY or TOMMOROW. I will be of course installing Debian and will need use it to dual boot to Win9x, yuck. The Satallite series look really good for the money but what about compatibility? It us