Re: Lap top for Linux

From: Dan Boline (ddboline_at_bu.edu)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:39:51 -0400

Highland Ham wrote:

> Having Mandrake 9.1 on a dual boot machine, I now intend buying a Linux
> Only laptop ,preferably with an AMD 64 processor for use with Mandrake 10
>
> Would appreciate receiving any advice on possible incompatibilty problems
> with certain hardware components, like graphics cards ,soundcards and
> above all any internal V92 modem ( sadly I won't be having Broadband -ADSL
> before Sep 2005)
>
> If internal modems are a 'pain' to configure I could hook-up an external
> V90 modem (to comms port)
>
> Your advice (especially on 'no go' components) will be much appreciated
>
> Frank (located in northern Scotland)
>
> amateur radio station : GM0CSZ / KN6WH

Hmm, I'm running Mandrake 10 on a Toshiba 1415-S173, apart from the slight
difficulty involved installing Nvidia's 3d drivers (partly the
installation, partly the nonstandard configuration), and realizing that my
modem work with the slmodem driver, everything has worked out well.

One option that might work is
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2464.html . The only problem
with this system is that it is a little too bleeding edge (it has an ATI
Radeon 9700 and ATI hasn't released DRI support in linux for the most
recent Radeon 9XXX cards yet).

Anyway, good luck. 

-- 
Daniel Boline
Dept of Physics, Boston University

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