> Try again now. A lot of work on laptop support has been done in Linux > since then.
Much more fundamentally laptops have given up using most of the proprietary parts they used to, except for stupid gimmick items like fingerprint readers. Today there are very few laptops on the market, the rest is configuration and packaging. Its Intel mobile + MICH + intel video + intel wireless (aka "Centrino"), Intel mobile + MICH + intel video + other wireless, AMD + ATI + broadcom and a few other combinations. With all the Linux work Intel have been doing the Intel stuff basically just works which means most laptops work out of the box (some fun with those that use 'other' wireless) while the AMD stuff is generally a dead loss due to the ATI video but fortunately a small market share. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
