I'm in the process of setting up a Sager NP9700-E right now -- check <A HREF="http://www.sagernotebook.com"><A HREF="http://www.sagernotebook.com</A">http://www.sagernotebook.com</A</A>> for listings & details. Short form - 13.3" TFT XGA display, with a 4 MB S3/Virge MX video set, 64 MB, 4 GB drive, floppy, CD-ROM (24X) and smart Li-ion battery. 366 MHz AMD K6-2 cpu. I had to go to the 2.2 kernel to get the mouse/touchpad to work - but at 2.2 it all runs out of the box. Yamaha sound included. I'm still playing with the APM options, but the stock config only cost $1600 with shipping. The display does 1024 by 768 by 24bpp with about a 130 degree cone of visibility. Comes with Win98 installed, and a shrink-wrapped Win98 install floppy and CD. I used fips2 to re-partition; ended up with a 400 MB Win98 partition and 3.5 GB for linux. The motherboard is by Kapok (I think that's right) and is used in two other vendor's systems. The Sager site has detailed info on all the key chipsets on the system. I'm looking for a modem card right now, and not having any luck. (I want 56k X2 and V.90, and USR seems to only be making winmodems; 56Kflex never took off in this area, so I have no interest in it). TomK namffuak@skyenet.net At 09:53 PM 2/25/99 -0500, you wrote:

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a particular brand/model of laptop to purchase if I am interested in running SuSE Linux (6.0 preferrably) on it. I was considering a Dell or IBM, but am open to any suggestions. Going to basically need the works: network card, modem, fairly large screen size, etc. No DVD required though. Probably going to want to multi-boot with 95/NT/BeOS/BSD possibly.

-- TIA,

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David Coulthart wrote:

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a particular brand/model of laptop to purchase if I am interested in running SuSE Linux (6.0 preferrably) on it. I was considering a Dell or IBM, but am open to any suggestions. Going to basically need the works: network card, modem, fairly large screen size, etc. No DVD required though. Probably going to want to multi-boot with 95/NT/BeOS/BSD possibly.

I just went through the same thing. I was deciding between the same two companies two. I went with an IBM Thinkpad 770X. Some things to note: -no sound support. The company that makes the chipset will not release details about it to open source. Commercial OSS may have a driver, but I haven't checked. I am hopeful that with IBMs new commitment to linux, they might lean on the chipmaker for specs. -X support is still a little funky, but very doable. I have X working at 1024x800 at 24bit. Some colors come out weird. I haven't had time to work on this. Accelerated-X for laptops does support the 9397DVD chipset, and I'm going to try the demo and see if it's worth it. -If your book comes loaded, IRQs and memory addresses become scarce. I had to go back and forth with David Hinds (author of the PCMCIA tools) for a little while to get things working. -The Thinkpad is a rock. It also weighs as much as one :-) This was not important to me. I just wanted a sturdy book to run linux on. -I'm running SuSE 6.0, FreeBSD 3.0 and Win98 on the book right now. IBM configures the hard drive very conveniently for linux users. Windows is on a 2GB partition at the begging of the drive and the rest is a 6GB fat partition containing nothing of importance. I just blew away the second partition and installed linux and FreeBSD. -BeOS is a little too much to hope for right now. Win98 is still there because of the excelent system information tool that IBM provides with the book. IBM's software turned a month long adventure getting linux working on that thing into a day's worth for 90% and another week for the last 10% (PCMCIA/ethernet). I also have used the CD player and DVD player on windows while I await offerings for the linux world. When I get more of these details worked out over spring break, I'll make a detailed page and add it to the Linux for Laptops page. There's been some issues, but overall, I love the Thinkpad. -- lunaslide * PGP key->pgpkeys.mit.edu port 11371 * * * * * * Yep. I have a very active imagination; it's been a personal condition of mine for years now. * -Bruce Sterling * * * * * - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>