Sreenadh wrote: > > > I am looking for more information about Laptops that support Linux and > those that are available in the UAE market. Most of the Laptops i see
Do what I do then.. grab a knoppix live CD or Ubuntu live cd and head off to Al-Ain Plaza :) Pop it in and run it up.. see what is detected and what is not.. do your dmesg/lspci dumps to a usb keystick and go home to investigate all the hardware.. see what is supported on your chosen model and what is not.. I've got a Sony Vaio VGN-TX27GP and have problems with the multimedia keys and inbuilt SD reader.. everything else works out of the box with Ubuntu 6.06.. it's sweet :) I can live with the volume buttons/multimedia keys not working.. (I'm working on that though) and the SD reader is a "nice to have". Someone has it working, but you have to unload the sound card drivers to be able to use it.. so I just use my USB one for now like I always have.. I'm sure it will be fixed in the not too distant future, and if I was desperate I could always use a PCMCIA unit as that hides away in the side of the laptop in any case.. I've not got suspend-to-ram working yet... (which is black magic on linux at the moment anyway), but suspend2 to hibernate to disk works a treat.. There is never likely to be region free firmware for my DVD drive.. but I can live with that using xine and vobcopy with libdvdcss2. Oh, and if the store won't let you run up a live-cd.. then find somewhere else to buy from.. The other thing to do is find out what you actually want in a laptop, then find a number of models that will fulfil those requirements.. then google.. Mine was a tough one.. I wanted the lightest laptop on the market.. so it narrowed it down to a choice of one I'm afraid.. I was just lucky that most of it worked out of the box.. and I had a friends unit to trial for 2 weeks before I made the decision, so I could really try it out.. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dubailug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
