Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-22 Thread Niels Heinemann
howdy tobbe Torbjorn Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But both the Portege 7020 and the Tecra T9000 had the keyboard > problem on the console also. wow. that's ugly. > Linux for the masses, if one supports that concept, is not going > to happen until the hardware vendors relea

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-22 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Niels Heinemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > 2) It s an X program, so there is still the console > > it did not know that this problem appear when using the console?? i > never heard of it. > Well, i didn't have it on the two first ones I had I think? Was rather long ago. (On them yo

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Thomas Arnall
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Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 May 2003 03:28 am, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote: > Niels Heinemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > --=.2M8W71FU8JmF8G > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > howdy. > > > > Torbjorn Petter

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Mitchell Gil Maltenfort
> > I use and recommend IBM. Aside from the WinModem[1][2] and the embedded > security chip[3] everything just works. > > Also, at least in .au, IBM are the *only* laptop people who have given > good service. Every fault I have ever had they gave me no grief and > shipped out a replacement part

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Niels Heinemann
howdy. i didn't know the specified tecra but if its based on centrino technology - like werner said - it seems to be quite new. so i think the problem will be solved anyway. Torbjorn Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) It is not in debian/stable jep. thats true. but for clean

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Niels Heinemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --=.2M8W71FU8JmF8G > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > howdy. > > Torbjorn Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All toshiba keyboards, but for one I used 5 years ago, have > > been "brok

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Werner Heuser
> Once I buy a laptop, I am planning to partition its hard drive > so I could use both Windows XP and Debian. Are there any > special specifications or configerations of the laptop that I > should look for when I shop around? The Toshiba Tecra S1 is equipped with Centrino, see http://tuxmobil.org

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Niels Heinemann
howdy. Torbjorn Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All toshiba keyboards, but for one I used 5 years ago, have > been "broken". i wrote of it - but in my portege 4010 it seems to be fixed. it's about a half year old. but if you recognize that behavior ... > There is a small

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Niels Heinemann
howdy there. Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone ships a "recovery" system with their laptop, not an > original OS. toshiba does too but ... > If you have OS media, or access to Partition Magic, life is > pretty simple -- "install" the recovery stuff, then re

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
"Pisut Tempatarachoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > Hi everybody, > > I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that > is most compatible with Debian. Could anyone please provide > me with comments on Debian GNU/Linux and Toshib

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Pisut Tempatarachoke wrote: > I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that is most > compatible with Debian. Could anyone please provide me with comments > on Debian GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or more specifically Tecra > S1 1.4 GHz) compatability, and p

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Niels Heinemann
howdy there. "Pisut Tempatarachoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could anyone please provide me with comments on Debian > GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or more specifically Tecra S1 > 1.4 GHz) compatability, and perhaps suggest which laptop I > might consider apart f

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Michael Perry
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:20:40PM +1000, Pisut Tempatarachoke wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that is most > compatible with Debian. Could anyone please provide me with comments on > Debian > GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or more specific

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Jason Straw
I have a Toshiba Satellite 2140XCDS, which works fine in debian sid... but I bought a long time ago, not sure whether or not a new one will be better or worse :) Jason Straw On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 00:20, Pisut Tempatarachoke wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to

Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-21 Thread Mitchell Gil Maltenfort
Check www.linux-laptop.net. It has'war stories' sorted by manufacturer and model. I use it to guide my own purchases. My prior two computers were Toshiba Satellites. Mandrake installed painlessly on them. If you're new to Linux, you may want to buy something like Partition Magic or Parti

Toshiba laptops & Debian

2003-05-20 Thread Pisut Tempatarachoke
Hi everybody,    I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that is most compatible with Debian.  Could anyone please provide me with comments on Debian GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or more specifically Tecra S1 1.4 GHz) compatability, and perhaps suggest which laptop I might