On 10-Feb-06 Peter Onion wrote:
If anyone is thinking about a laptop for linuxhere is asuccess story.......
There was a time (not so long ago) when installing Linux on a laptop was a bit of a lottery with respect to getting drivers for all the hardware.
I decided my trusty old Dell Latitude was up for replacement, and having just built a desktop with a AMD64 mobo I decided to go for a similarly powered laptop.
For several reasons I decided on one of these http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/nbrange.html?CSF
After a bit of a delay ( and some trouble with UPS (that's the courier firm! )) it finally arrived yesterday.
I've installed SuSE 10.0 from DVD and EVERYTHING WORKS, even the built in wifi that uses a chip set I'de never heard of before! As with my other boxes I've added the ATI proprietry X server to get openGL support (1280x800 is nice!).
Peter
That looks very nice indeed!
One question: have you tested the touchpad (or glidepad as they call it) with en external mouse? (I don't see a PS2 port listed, so maybe one has to use a USB mouse).
Sometimes one cannot use the touchpad and external mouse at the same time, unless one installs a proprietary (usually Windows) driver.
Good luck! Ted.
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