Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
On 1/8/07, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick bit of Googling yields: http://www.leenooks.com/Ricoh+Co+Ltd+R5C8xx+SD%252fMMC%252fMS%252fMSPro%252fxD%252fSC+Card+reader Looks like there is partial support for the SD/MMC aspect of these. I'll maybe give it a shot when I get home tonight :) Interesting. The last time I looked was around April '06, and the outlook didn't look good at that time. Nice to know things have improved here. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
-Original Message- From: Daniel Barkalow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 January 2007 07:02 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux? I've got a Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 that will never have Linux support because it doesn't actually do anything at all (it's the placeholder device for a 4-device-in-1-chip, where the 4 devices pretend to be various single device Ricoh chips and appear as 4 more devices). -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- I would add that I haven't got my SD card reader on my HP DV8000 series to work in Linux. Then again I haven't tried very hard, and I have an external USB one that I got for a few quid (~$5-6?) off the net which works like a dream. David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
On 1/8/07, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add that I haven't got my SD card reader on my HP DV8000 series to work in Linux. Last time I investigated this for my Dell, built-in media readers unusable under Linux on all laptops, as they are all made by Ricoh, who refuses to release any programming specs to allow someone to make a driver. We need some competition on this component I think... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: 08 January 2007 17:32 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux? On 1/8/07, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add that I haven't got my SD card reader on my HP DV8000 series to work in Linux. Last time I investigated this for my Dell, built-in media readers unusable under Linux on all laptops, as they are all made by Ricoh, who refuses to release any programming specs to allow someone to make a driver. We need some competition on this component I think... -Richard A quick bit of Googling yields: http://www.leenooks.com/Ricoh+Co+Ltd+R5C8xx+SD%252fMMC%252fMS%252fMSPro%252fxD%252fSC+Card+reader Looks like there is partial support for the SD/MMC aspect of these. I'll maybe give it a shot when I get home tonight :) David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/8/07, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add that I haven't got my SD card reader on my HP DV8000 series to work in Linux. Last time I investigated this for my Dell, built-in media readers unusable under Linux on all laptops, as they are all made by Ricoh, who refuses to release any programming specs to allow someone to make a driver. We need some competition on this component I think... The Ricoh SD card reader on my laptop works fine with the sdhci driver. The only oddity is that the mmc-block driver doesn't have sysfs support, so udev doesn't create the device nodes. As far as I can tell, Ricoh doesn't release programming specs, but they seem to make devices that don't need vendor-specific drivers when possible. So we don't find out about their errata, but they may well never actually notice the quirks in the first place. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
Hello, first thanks all for your great support on Gentoo Linux. I'm interessted to buy a laptop on which I would like to install Gentoo GNU/Linux by using 100% all hardware functions of the laptop for which I have bought. Does somebody know a model of a laptop on which all works fine with Linux? I don't want to have trouble with wireless, webcam or this kind of stuff. Is there maybe a laptop hardware constructor which supports 100% Linux on laptop? Best regards, saf -- E-Mail sent with anti-spam site TrashMail.net! Free disposable email addresses: http://www.trashmail.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
-Original Message- From: qfpvajdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 January 2007 12:47 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux? Hello, first thanks all for your great support on Gentoo Linux. I'm interessted to buy a laptop on which I would like to install Gentoo GNU/Linux by using 100% all hardware functions of the laptop for which I have bought. Does somebody know a model of a laptop on which all works fine with Linux? I don't want to have trouble with wireless, webcam or this kind of stuff. Is there maybe a laptop hardware constructor which supports 100% Linux on laptop? Best regards, saf -- Hi Check the Gentoo Wiki Hardware section as it lists many of the common laptop brands and models that have been known to work with Linux. In general as far as I am aware nVidia video cards work better in Linux than ATi ones, and you might want to avoid anything too brand new if you are worried about hardware support? I'm not entirely sure. I currently have a HP DV8000 series laptop: the nVidia graphics work great (I play UT2k4 on it in Linux), the Intel HD Audio works well (as long as you use the userspace drivers - the kernel drivers dont seem to work so well, and result in quite poor sound sometimes IMO). The wireless is Intel ipw3945 and works great once set up according to the instructions in the gentoo wiki. I'd find a laptop you like and start searching for information about the various bits of hardware to see if they will work. Cheers, David PS There is a gentoo-laptop list as well... : Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
Hello, On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:46:32PM +0100, qfpvajdy wrote: Hello, first thanks all for your great support on Gentoo Linux. I'm interessted to buy a laptop on which I would like to install Gentoo GNU/Linux by using 100% all hardware functions of the laptop for which I have bought. I have Dell Latitude D510, and I made work anything I had opportunity to test. I did not test infrared and docking. I have the version with intel WiFi card. AFAIK this exact model is not sold any more, but something similar enough should be. -- Michal vorner Vaner == This email has been checked by an automatic damage possibility check system. It can contain harmful instructions if read backwards. Internal checker ID: lacol.cr/cte/ tlah ohce pgpMDEN9bS4EP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, qfpvajdy wrote: Does somebody know a model of a laptop on which all works fine with Linux? I've got almost everything working on my Lenovo 3000-N100 0768-36U. I haven't played too much with suspending, and I haven't got the last detail working on the software modem (slmodemd is using an audio format not supported by my codec). When I bought the machine in September, there were a bunch of things not yet supported, or only supported in testing versions that are now stable. I don't want to have trouble with wireless, webcam or this kind of stuff. ipw3945 is well supported (except that it's not on the install CD, so you need ethernet to install it). I didn't get a webcam. You should probably also specify what features you want, rather than that you just want all of the features to be supported; I haven't used the firewire on mine at all, despite the fact that it reportedly works, and I've got a Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 that will never have Linux support because it doesn't actually do anything at all (it's the placeholder device for a 4-device-in-1-chip, where the 4 devices pretend to be various single device Ricoh chips and appear as 4 more devices). -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
