[SLE] Re: Linux on a laptop

On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote:

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote:

<-]Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 01:44:59 +0000 <-]From: Yatsen Ng <-]To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <-]Subject: [SLE] Linux on a laptop <-] <-]Hi there, <-] <-]I recall someone mentioning a website with info on installing Linux on <-]laptops. Could someone please post that site once again? <-] <-]I'm interested in buying a Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD or VAIO B5 N505SN. If <-]anyone has experience with one of these models I'd like to hear from <-]you.

You can find the Linux Laptop Volunteer Support Database at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/volunteer.html

The most interesting link is at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

There you'll find a lot of models with their own Linux experiences... the good ones and the bad ones too. You'll also find a link for a Laptop-Howto.

I'm searching for a laptop too and I have been reading these stories for 1 month now, and many related links. I am sometimes convinced that IBM's Thinkpads is the best choice, the next day the Sony's are the best. The final result: I am totaly confused!

Anyway, good luck.

Sorry for not snipping but I think it's all fairly relevant. I use a Toshiba 460 CDX; its a 166MMX/32MB RAM/2MB CT video chip/2.1GB hdd. Bios dates back to 1996/97. Split partitions approximately 1.2GB for Win98 and the rest for Linux. I've had Linux on my "baby" for about 4 months now. I tried Redhat 6.1 but it took 3 weeks of messing about with XFree/XF86Config/LinuxConfig to get anything resembling a decent 800x600 screen display, and even then I could only manage 256 colours. And the sound quality was absolutely awful. I then slapped Mandrake 7 over the top of Redhat (just told it to upgrade) and found that Lothario made the job a lot easier, I'm now running it with 16K colours and the display is better than under Win98 (which I *must* have - not my choice - for my work). The sound config was a dream compared to Redhat 6.1 and produced excellent renditions of my MP3s. Toshiba also provide a set of laptop utilities, to run under Linux, there is a link for it on the laptop site; and SuSE also include the Tosh utilities on the full distro of 6.4. I'm about to take Mandrake off the laptop and install SuSE 6.4 tomorrow (as it's a public holiday, here in England). If anyone with a Tosh 460 wants a copy of my XF86Config, let me know and I'll happily email it. And I'd better post it off to the laptop site too :-) I keep forgetting too. You don't have to buy an all singing, all dancing, latest bells and whistles laptop to install Linux, my baby is nearly 3 years old and it was quite happy to run Linux, albeit a bit slow comapred to my main machine, an Athlon 500 with 256MB RAM. Perhaps you could ask a friend with a laptop to let you borrow it (back up everything first though) and see if it is suitable for your needs. Just my two pence worth. HTH -- Paul Hornshaw -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/