On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:26:01AM -0500, Frank DiMitri wrote: > > One thing that's common on laptops are custom keyboard buttons (like > > volume > > up/down/mute), and these can be tricky to get working under Linux. > > Seems kind of unimportant vs the functionality of the rest of the laptop. > Does anyone really care if their volume keys don't work? Although, they're > usually not really *tricky* to get working.
For example: Ubuntu didn't support the ACPI battery monitor in recent toshibas until extremely recently (maybe 10.10?). Was it fixable if you kluged up your own kernel? Sure. Was that something that coexisted well with ubuntu? Not so much. There are _definitely_ distro-specific support issues. The real point: Anyone getting a new laptop would be well served by doing some googling and seeing how well the kernel, and kernel options, of their distro of choice supports it. -m --
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