[opensuse] Mini-laptop suitable for openSuSE
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@gmail.com> wrote:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I just configured a Sony VAIO TT-190 (SSD drive, weighs about 1.5 kg) with OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit. Seems to work just fine. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:22 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
I just configured a Sony VAIO TT-190 (SSD drive, weighs about 1.5 kg) with OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit. Seems to work just fine.
Boris, Do you have the Blue-ray working? How is the keyboard? Do you have any of the Fn keys working? Have you connected to a projector using opensuse yet? In this Q I have get another laptop. I have been using the ThinkPads X series (12 inch screen) and I love them. They work great with opensuse. I saw some reviews and the Sony looks impressive but nothing better than a users who has it <g> -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Teruel de Campo MD <chusty@attglobal.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:22 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
I just configured a Sony VAIO TT-190 (SSD drive, weighs about 1.5 kg) with OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit. Seems to work just fine.
Boris,
Do you have the Blue-ray working?
How is the keyboard?
Do you have any of the Fn keys working?
Have you connected to a projector using opensuse yet?
In this Q I have get another laptop. I have been using the ThinkPads X series (12 inch screen) and I love them. They work great with opensuse. I saw some reviews and the Sony looks impressive but nothing better than a users who has it <g>
-=terry=-
Terry, No, I have not configured the special keys (Fn and A/V controls upfront). So far even without them the things seems to be running fine. And we've got a DVD in it, not a BluRay. The presentation and screen resolution adjustment seems to work just fine, so does the A/V (most common formats at least), WiFi, etc. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:28 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Teruel de Campo MD <chusty@attglobal.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:22 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
I just configured a Sony VAIO TT-190 (SSD drive, weighs about 1.5 kg) with OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit. Seems to work just fine.
Boris,
Do you have the Blue-ray working?
How is the keyboard?
Do you have any of the Fn keys working?
Have you connected to a projector using opensuse yet?
In this Q I have get another laptop. I have been using the ThinkPads X series (12 inch screen) and I love them. They work great with opensuse. I saw some reviews and the Sony looks impressive but nothing better than a users who has it <g>
-=terry=-
Terry,
No, I have not configured the special keys (Fn and A/V controls upfront). So far even without them the things seems to be running fine.
And we've got a DVD in it, not a BluRay.
The presentation and screen resolution adjustment seems to work just fine, so does the A/V (most common formats at least), WiFi, etc.
Boris.
Boris Thxs, -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:54 +0200, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used.
I have an Acer Aspire One (ZG5) upgraded to 1.5GB ram. Installed openSUSE 11.1. Everything works perfectly out of the box (wlan, webcam, xorg), and it runs decently with OpenOffice, Firefox, evolution, mplayer. About the only gripe I have is that the standard battery only gives me about 2 hours run time. I think that I could improve this by removing some services, but I haven't been too fussed to experiment. Cheers, Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 16 February 2009 00:30:51 Allen wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire One (ZG5) upgraded to 1.5GB ram. Installed openSUSE 11.1. Everything works perfectly out of the box (wlan, webcam, xorg), and it runs decently with OpenOffice, Firefox, evolution, mplayer.
Have you tried to use it with a projector ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I tried it today on a projector. Not sure what type - it projects in a lecture theatre with seating for about 150. After booting the 9" 1024x600 display was being used. After switching displays with the Fn keys, it switched to the projector. All I then had to do was use XRandR to change the display resolution. The only thing that didn't work on this projector was having both screens running at the same time. Previously I have had an external monitor plugged in. It was fine running as a dual screen with different resolutions. Again, the native resolution wasn't picked up (defaulting to 1024x600), but was easily changed using XRandR. Sorry for being late in replying. Allen On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 07:12 +0200, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
On Monday 16 February 2009 00:30:51 Allen wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire One (ZG5) upgraded to 1.5GB ram. Installed openSUSE 11.1. Everything works perfectly out of the box (wlan, webcam, xorg), and it runs decently with OpenOffice, Firefox, evolution, mplayer.
Have you tried to use it with a projector ?
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On Wednesday 25 February 2009 10:39:48 you wrote:
I tried it today on a projector. Not sure what type - it projects in a lecture theatre with seating for about 150.
After booting the 9" 1024x600 display was being used. After switching displays with the Fn keys, it switched to the projector. All I then had to do was use XRandR to change the display resolution. The only thing that didn't work on this projector was having both screens running at the same time.
Previously I have had an external monitor plugged in. It was fine running as a dual screen with different resolutions. Again, the native resolution wasn't picked up (defaulting to 1024x600), but was easily changed using XRandR.
Sorry for being late in replying.
Allen
Thanks for your reply. Finally I have bought an Acer Aspire One A150-Ab, similar with your mode, but with more harddisk space. I have not yet tried to install openSuSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 15 February 2009 10:54:30 pm Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan
You could consider the hp2133 in the far future, but for the moment try to avoid it! (still having a lot of issues with it: no 3D acceleration with the openchrome driver, driver also kills the wireless cards (http://www.mail-archive.com/bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de/msg07690.html), web-cam I haven't even tried yet). I got fooled, because it came with sles 10.3 pre-installed! Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@gmail.com> wrote:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan
I use HP 2230s. It is light and powerful, it is considered not mini-laptop though :-) openSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.2. Working fine. Sound and graphics are good. Well, it has Intel GM45 graphics. Still has some bugs with 3D application, but no problem with desktop effect. If I run Google Earth with desktop effect enable than GE become useless. Wireless is supported out of the box (iwlagn5100). It has fingerprint but still not supported by linux (ID 08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc. See http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Unsupported_devices#AuthenTec_AES2550_.26...) No problem with projector. Well, I still cannot manage dual monitor with projector output :-) medwinz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Le Sunday 15 February 2009 21:54:30 Bogdan Cristea, vous avez écrit :
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan
Hi, I use a medion akoya mini netbook (= Msi Wind U100). I dual boot windows XP (installed) with Opensuse 11.0 for presentation purpose and to travel light. Everything works out of the box. I had to use the ndiswrapper for the wlan, but now it is working using the Ralink linux driver. So : Video works great (even using compiz ;-) on Kde 3.5) Webcam works Ethernet + wifi works Special function keys works except for few ones (don't recall now, but nothing important). The ones that works for sure : connect/disconnect wifi ; connect/disconnect webcam ; increase/decrease screen backlight. Only problem is the battery life (~ 2 hours, with the stock 3 cell battery), but you can buy 6 cells battery to double it. Now the best part... I found it new for about 200 € ( $ 255) (the version shipped with the 80 GB HDD and 1 GB of RAM). I only changed the RAM to increase to 2GB RAM. Matthias -- / \ /_!_\ My e-mail address has just changed. Please note the new one : matthias.titeux@inserm.fr _____________________________________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme. INSERM U563 - CPTP Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage CHU Purpan BP3028 31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bogdan Cristea schrieb:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. I am an owner of an EEEPC 900A. This machine works very well with openSUSE 11.1, but needs some additional scripts and drivers to work, but everything is available from the BuildService and the wiki. I have run some test with the latest kernel from Kernel:HEAD repository and found it will work completely out of the box with it, except one script to make xrandr work using the Fn-Keys.
Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan
Hi Bodgan, Similar to Herbert, I own a EeePC 901, and it also works out of the box with openSUSE 11.1 ( The wireless will only be available after installation ). The Fn keys will also need to be added. And this is a 6+ hours uptime Laptop. If you decrease your screen brightness, disable bluetooth and wireless you will get 7+ -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 12:32:38 Rui Santos wrote:
Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan
Hi Bodgan,
Similar to Herbert, I own a EeePC 901, and it also works out of the box with openSUSE 11.1 ( The wireless will only be available after installation ). The Fn keys will also need to be added. And this is a 6+ hours uptime Laptop. If you decrease your screen brightness, disable bluetooth and wireless you will get 7+
-- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/
Veni, vidi, Linux!
Well, I didn't knew about this model. The uptime is indeed very impressive -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I have an HP Mini 1010NR running OpenSUSE 11.1. At first it had issues with the wireless but mysteriously that problem went away one day. I never got around to looking but I assume there was an update that fixed it. Anyhow, everything but sound works great with OpenSUSE 11.1. Sound is probably fixable but I haven't spent any time on it (wife's computer). I haven't looked recently but this device used to only be available with Windows pre-installed so you end up paying for XP if you want it or not but this may have changed since HP now has a USB install method for the 1000 series that gets you up and going with Ubuntu: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/04/hp-releases-netbook-interface-for-ub... Haven't got around to testing it yet but it looks pretty slick. -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:54 +0200, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan
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At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:49:10 -0600, John Lange wrote:
I have an HP Mini 1010NR running OpenSUSE 11.1.
At first it had issues with the wireless but mysteriously that problem went away one day. I never got around to looking but I assume there was an update that fixed it.
Anyhow, everything but sound works great with OpenSUSE 11.1. Sound is probably fixable but I haven't spent any time on it (wife's computer).
Try alsa-driver-kmp from OBS multimedia:audio:KMP repo. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio:/KMP/ together with alsa.rpm and libasound2.rpm fron multimedia:audio repo, http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/audio/ At least, there have been reports that Mini 1000 works with it. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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