Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-17 Thread Antonello Moneta
Yes thinkpad is a good option, but maybe you want to check others models and prices. My hint is to go in http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and maybe there you can find a good laptop for you. If you are scared about the compatibility of linux in a laptop there you can find all information and how to conf

Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 02:17 +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Die, 17 Okt 2006, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... > > get a Thinkpad.. > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki Okay, I wondered if I'd hear about Thinkpads, as I've seen th

Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-17 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, On Die, 17 Okt 2006, Owen Heisler wrote: > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... get a Thinkpad.. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Laptop recommendation

2006-10-17 Thread Owen Heisler
I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... It would be really great if it was fully supported by the Linux kernel (maybe even video acceleration as well? Is there such a thing?), without all the annoying fiddling. Next, I don't know if it is really possible with laptops, but

Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?

2006-10-17 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 08:27, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne úterý 17 říjen 2006 16:39 Preston Boyington napsal(a): > > alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences > > between these two laptops. > > > > i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite

Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?

2006-10-17 Thread Preston Boyington
Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Problem is, when you use --get/set-selections combo, you loose information > about exact package versions (needed for stable/testing/unstable mix) and you > also loose dependency info for aptitude (all packages will behave like > manually installed). In general, --get

Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?

2006-10-17 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne úterý 17 říjen 2006 16:39 Preston Boyington napsal(a): > alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences > between these two laptops. > > i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite > ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i

why the difference between two identical laptops?

2006-10-17 Thread Preston Boyington
alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences between these two laptops. i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i might want. then i did the ol': dpkg --get-selections > pa

Re: Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-17 Thread Daniel Devost
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:39:18AM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: On Mon, 16 Okt 2006, Daniel Devost wrote: >I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I > have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that > holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives h

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Re: Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work [solved]

2006-10-17 Thread André Wendt
André Wendt schrieb: > Hi, > > after over a year with custom-compiled kernels that solved problems I > never had before :-), I switched back to Debian's stock kernel today. > > After re-compiling all necessary modules, I thought I'd give hibernate > with swsusp a try (once again). > > Swsusp is