Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Riccardo Facchini <abief_ag_-suseml@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Johan Sch <___> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:46:10 -0400
> James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > So, you now know which is the best notebook, for running Linux. 
> ;-)
> > 
> << snip >>
> 
> NO..but found that toshiba seems to be very linux friendly..they
> eaven have a mail list for their linux users on the website.
> 
> -- 
> Johan
> Registered Linux User #330034
> May this be a good day for learning
> 
[snip]

Toshiba may be linux-frendly, but some of their laptops aren't. I have
a (today old) Tecra 8200. Is 4 years old, but still a wonderful
machine: 1Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 60Gb HD, with a small problem... the d___d
display. Uses Tridentmicro Cyberblade XP, that ***can*** give 1400
pixel resolution, but as trident micro never released the
documentation, the Xfree driver shift the screen 5mm to the right when
in 1400 mode... and it seems that there is no way to get it fixed.

so, my recommendation: beware of Toshiba laptops, and test them with
either Live-CD 9.1 or Knoppix before committing to it.



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Riccardo G. Facchini