Be careful with Toshiba laptops. Getting my Toshiba Satellite 5005-507S working under linux was a big pain in the ass. I tried Redhat, Mandrake and finally settled on gentoo before I could get it working reasonably well. Even now, I can't use any of the gentoo kernel-sources ebuilds. Instead I had to download clean kernel sources from kernel.org and the appropriate patches to fix the issues (primarily ACPI, and sound. I still have this wierd thing where I have to re-configure the touchpad for X everytime I boot to a new kernel).
Josh On Wednesday 04 June 2003 08:02 am, Johnny Andersson wrote: > I'm getting a laptop soon. Not the latest model, but reasonably useable > (aiming for somewhere around 800 MHz, 256 meg). > > I'm using Gentoo on my desktop machine and I like it. I wonder if any of > you have opinions on Gentoo on a laptop. I realize that the usual > set-aside-a-day-to-compile-kde rules apply, but other than that, is Gentoo > a wise choise for laptops? My theory is that as Gentoo is very > customizable, and as you _have_ to compile your own kernel, the odds that > you're gonna get your hardware working is good. > > Any comments? Or does anyone have good experiences with other distros on > laptops? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
