Friendliest Laptop??

Hi guys. I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? Thanks! Yannick

Re: Friendliest Laptop??

Heather wrote: > Improve the criteria please, do you mean "current models I can buy with > a manufacturer's warranty" ? Also what sort of "friendly" features are > you looking for? Sorry I was a bit fuzzy on that one. A new one. PIII-800 Mhz or around there. Right now it's a standoff between Del

LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000

Hi guys. I've been trying to get debian (woody) installed on my new I8000 and I can't get past the lilo installation. I'm using the compact diskette set and doing a network (http) installation. Here's how I partitionned my drive (fdisk printout) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cylin

Re: LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000

Gyurko Szabolcs wrote: > > Hi ! > > You can boot up with rescue disk as follows: rescue root=/dev/hda5 > Why won't lilo put the boot to MBR ? > Send your lilo.conf please, and I'll try to help. I get a "Warning: unable to open an initial console." when I use the rescue disk to boot into my roo

I8000 LILO install problem - fixed

I tried again with a different diskette set (idepci) and the stable distribution and all is well now. Thanks! Yannick

alsa troubles

I got everything but my sound (and suspend/resume, but that's another story) running in linux on my Inspiron 8000 ( yay! ) Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only thing is when I go to the ALSA web

X11 at different resolution for I8000.

Hi guys, I have a Inspiron 8000 and it works great. I've just finished setting up DRI if anyone needs help with that I can prolly help you a bit (been working on it for over a week :) Doesn't seem to be very stable but I'm not blaming my install for that ;) But now that I can play all these ga

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick

Friendliest Laptop??

Hi guys. I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUB

Re: Friendliest Laptop??

Heather wrote: > Improve the criteria please, do you mean "current models I can buy with > a manufacturer's warranty" ? Also what sort of "friendly" features are > you looking for? Sorry I was a bit fuzzy on that one. A new one. PIII-800 Mhz or around there. Right now it's a standoff between De

LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000

Hi guys. I've been trying to get debian (woody) installed on my new I8000 and I can't get past the lilo installation. I'm using the compact diskette set and doing a network (http) installation. Here's how I partitionned my drive (fdisk printout) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cyli

Re: LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000

Gyurko Szabolcs wrote: > > Hi ! > > You can boot up with rescue disk as follows: rescue root=/dev/hda5 > Why won't lilo put the boot to MBR ? > Send your lilo.conf please, and I'll try to help. I get a "Warning: unable to open an initial console." when I use the rescue disk to boot into my ro

I8000 LILO install problem - fixed

I tried again with a different diskette set (idepci) and the stable distribution and all is well now. Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

alsa troubles

I got everything but my sound (and suspend/resume, but that's another story) running in linux on my Inspiron 8000 ( yay! ) Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only thing is when I go to the ALSA we

speeding up DVD on I8000

Hi Guys, I've started moving my music onto my computer so I can travel and not have to carry all my CDs with me all the time and I'm kinda dissapointed with the ripping speed of my DVD drive. It hardly ever goes more than 3x (using GRIP and CDParanoia). Anyone knows how I can speed this up? I tr

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL