Re: Installation on a Toshiba A200 1BP Laptop ...

2007-07-06 Thread George Hein
Beware, I think this may invalidate their warranty. There were some problems with this some years ago with either Toshiba and/or HP. On my part, I think some beta linux sw MAY have destroyed my screen on my first thinkpad (earliest thinpad model?) about 10 years ago which had a triple boot of

Anyone happy with Dell-Ubuntu PC's?

2007-07-06 Thread George Hein
My family has had about 10 ThinkPads, but as another is dying we 'need' another laptop. Lenovo not as good as IBM and Dell avoiding the MS-tax lead me to try Dell. Any experiances? Meanwhile on my main laptop, ThinkPad-T42 with Debian I'm very happy. Been using OS/2 when it first came out fo

Re: ThinkPads

2007-07-06 Thread Hans Poppe
Andrew McMillan wisely stated: > My experience > with the ATI drivers is that they have improved a lot over the last > couple of years, and the installation is certainly much better.  The > downloadable drivers will let you create a Debian package to install > from, though you have to pass it a ma

ipw3945 driver issues with Debian Sid

2007-07-06 Thread Josh Richard
Good Day, I am having connection issues with a new laptop running the ipw3945 driver. Hopefull something jumps out at someone. Here are the details... Debian sid on HP Compaq NC6320. The wireless interface is eth2. /lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/contrib/ipw3945.ko version=1.2.1dmpr /sbin/ipw3945d

Re: Anyone happy with Dell-Ubuntu PC's?

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Witt
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, George Hein wrote: My family has had about 10 ThinkPads, but as another is dying we 'need' another laptop. Lenovo not as good as IBM and Dell avoiding the MS-tax lead me to try Dell. Any experiances? Meanwhile on my main laptop, ThinkPad-T42 with Debian I'm very happy. B

Re: Anyone happy with Dell-Ubuntu PC's?

2007-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Witt wrote: > I was under the impression that Thinkpads were considered to be some of > the best laptops and I've always wanted to try one. From your comment it > seems that there was a significant drop in quality/reliability when IBM > sold the line to Lenovo. I have personal experience