Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Emenaker
Paul Johnson wrote: Voting with your money is important when it comes to compatability on Linux. I'd be all for getting something other than a Dell, but they were the only ones I could find that offered a laptop with a screen resolution meeting or exceeding 1600x1200. Does anybody know of an

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: wifi failed after hibernate

2007-02-21 Thread Micha
This was extensively discussed in I agree there should be an explicit debconf message, because wifi connection can be a serious issue for roaming laptops. And yet it's also true we use to deal with unstable/experimental, and should be p

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I am forwarding this to Debain Boot since these seem to be installation issues). Justin Hartman wrote: > On 2/18/07, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> > * Getting Etch operational from a netinstall cd >> >> What image did you used? Could you define a little b