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RE: [SLE] DVD drive support and notebooks



Similiar setup here, Compaq 1670 w/CD running 6.1 (6.2 soon). I'll second
the poor mouse control (I noticed on synaptics web page Win98 uses a special
driver on the presario only, which makes me think this is a model specific
problem).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kutil [SMTP:jkutil@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 3:37 PM
> To: Samy Elashmawy
> Cc: Tim Duggan; suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] DVD drive support and notebooks
>
> I am running SuSE 6.2 on a Compaq Presario 1690 with a DVD drive. At
> this time, DVD is not supported. However, it reads cdroms okay for
> installing the SuSE 6.2 software.
>
> This laptop uses the ATI Rage LT Pro which is now supported under
> XFree86 3.3.4 and 3.3.5.
>
> However, the glidepoint mouse is still difficult to adjust under X.
> Works well under Win98.
>
> Samy Elashmawy wrote:
> >
> > At 10:01 AM 8/25/1999 -0400, Tim Duggan wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael Norman [SMTP:michael.norman1@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 2:37 AM
> > >
> > > Does SuSE support DVDROM drives and decoder cards which let you watch
> > > movies ? If so what about the Creative or Videologic cards ?
> >
> > Does that mean that they are suported as "cdrom Drives" I have been
> puting
> > off on buying a new laptop due the the dvd issue. are they (the dvd
> roms)
> > suported by suse linux for cd rom access ect...
> >
> > Any of you are using either toshibas or compaq notebooks , any thing to
> > aviod ??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Samy
>

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