Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Nuno Magalhães on 2011-06-18 05:44: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:37, Brian Ryans wrote: > > Unfortunately, they're a direct-order firm; you won't be able to pop a > > Debian Live disc in at the shop and take a look. > > Plus they only ship to the US, UK and Canada, but thanks. I humbly s

Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:37, Brian Ryans wrote: > Unfortunately, they're a direct-order firm; you won't be able to pop a > Debian Live disc in at the shop and take a look. Plus they only ship to the US, UK and Canada, but thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-17 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Nuno Magalhães on 2011-06-10 20:24: > Any help on this department? Are there any particular brands which are > more linux-friendly? System7[62] is the name of the firm. I'm not sure which it is -- no net as I write this. I'm fairly certain it's 76 though. System76 build their laptops with

Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:24:05 +0100, Nuno Magalhães a écrit : [...] > It has a Radeon HD 6450M graphics card (AMD/ATI provides a binary > driver) [...] According to http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature this graphic card (R900 or "Northern Islands" family) would be at least partially supported by

Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, 2011/6/11 Martin Schulz : > And then, why not run a live cd on your toshie, using tools like > lshw, lspci, hwinfo ? they can give >   very verbose, detailed specs of whatever hardware >   nvidia graphics still do less hassle than most other vendors, from my > view, Thanks for your reply. I p

Re: Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-10 Thread chris
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 02:24 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi, > > I'd assume this list to be more appropriate than debian-user. I'm > considering this laptop (or a similar one) but i'd like to know if > there are drivers for it first.So far i haven't found any decent specs > regarding the chipset

Drivers for Toshiba Tecra-R840-10T (PT429E-00M007EP)

2011-06-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I'd assume this list to be more appropriate than debian-user. I'm considering this laptop (or a similar one) but i'd like to know if there are drivers for it first.So far i haven't found any decent specs regarding the chipsets it may use. It has a Radeon HD 6450M graphics card (AMD/ATI provid