Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-10 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:00:12 +0200, Serge FRANCOIS wrote: > Merci pour l'info, A quick update: the laptop is blazing fast and Etch installed without a hitch. After Etch installation I had a system working at the correct resolution with ethernet connection. Then I upgraded to Sid and now I have

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-10 Thread Serge FRANCOIS
Le lundi 9 juillet 2007 20:44, Jack Malmostoso a écrit : > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:00:12 +0200, dam wrote: > > ... I wouldn't say they are conflicting, or few, heres where I look for > > thinkpad info, or any linux on laptop information. I happened upon this > > link years ago and it has saved me w

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-09 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:00:12 +0200, dam wrote: > ... I wouldn't say they are conflicting, or few, heres where I look for > thinkpad info, or any linux on laptop information. I happened upon this > link years ago and it has saved me weeks of time: > http://www.linux-laptop.net I know about this l

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-05 Thread dam
> "Jack" == Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jack> laptop comes without Windows. ... this is an important step. ;) Jack> The few howtos about thinkpads seem conflicting with each Jack> other, so I'd like to know if someone has a success story to Jack> share. ... I wo

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-02 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:50:12 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > But the Debian images did not want to boot, so I got grml-small, booted > and did the rest with debootstrap. Ok, thanks for the info. > S-ATA and stuff is working fine, the > new wifi does not (did not have the time to build the iwl mod

Re: Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-02 Thread Evgeni Golov
On 1 Jul 2007 08:20:06 GMT Jack Malmostoso wrote: > The few howtos about thinkpads seem conflicting with each other, so I'd > like to know if someone has a success story to share. I have successfully installed Sid on a SR-Samsung last week. But the Debian images did not want to boot, so I got gr

Santa Rosa Laptops

2007-07-01 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hello list, I just bought a new laptop to replace my aging iBook G4. I bought it from a swiss company that ships laptops configured personally, and more importantly, the laptop comes without Windows. It will sport the new Santa Rosa chipset, with Intel graphics and Intel wifi 4965 abgn. I hav