Hi Marcin, et al:
I have two laptops running Linux and EMC2. One is a Dell 5000e and the
other a Dell M50. Both were high-end laptops at the time of purchase, both
have standard parports and both are running strong today (the 5000e is eight
years old). I am not a Dell junkie; my latest laptop is an HP/Compaq nw9440
which is the best engineered laptop I have yet encountered. To finish my
background cv: the laptops are driving a small, desktop CNC (Taig) Mill- NOT
heavy metal, by any metric.
Here are some URL's I found useful for running Linux on a laptop:
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
http://tuxmobil.org/distribution_linux_laptop_mandrake.html
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell5000.html
Things to watch for:
Graphics drivers (laptops come with video chipsets, not real video cards,
and can misbehave)
Power management (I always have trouble with waking up in Linux- so never
sleep ;-)
Good luck,
Glenn
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Jakubowski
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Emc-users] LInuxCNC laptops
Thanks for the responses on EMC laptops. But surely there must be at least
one specific laptop that does work? Is there any success story out there at
ALL for a working laptop?
Marcin
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Jason Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Only problem is that Printer ports are not addressed the same on PCMCIA
cards and with EMC2 we talk direct to the address and not via a driver.
I dont think this solution would work.
Jason
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:07 -0600, Jack wrote:
> In general, laptops are not a good idea. Many of the inexpensive ones
> are doing away with 'legacy' ports.
> I would suggest, whatever you get, get one with a PCCard slot, and get
> a PCCard that has a printer port on it.
> Actually, I would want two of the cards, just in case one gets
> fried :(
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