On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:19 pm, Brian Pack wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 23:32, Jesse wrote:
Actually, there are some companies, that sell Linux equipped notebooks. Look up Angle Computers for one.
this now includes HP http://tinyurl.com/53cyr (full URL at below). It even comes with SuSE!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/03/f inancial1657EDT0259.DTL
But they still leave a lot of unsupported hardware. I got this in reply to me query re: hp scanjet 4670:
currently HP does not support any scanner in the Linux operating system
feh.
So what? The very nature of linux means that if the device is supported by any distro you can get it working in any other distro. If the don't work anywhere they probably won't work on HP installations of SuSE either. But the fact that they now market a SuSE machine can't help but light a fire under them to get all models supported... HP has links to this page: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml and the Xsane project has an extensive list of supported devices here. http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html Re the 4670 the Xsane project says: http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/hp-scanjet-4600.html You would think they would want to support their own devices, but this is a big company with many disjoint parts - and lots of left-hand right-hand problems. Reading the machine specs also reveals they don't support swappable cdrom /crburners /dvd burners either. Yet we know that all works. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen