On Monday, February 07, 2011 11:11:10 Anthony Acquanita wrote: > So just to update everyone. > I've narrowed it down to 14inch laptops that support 8gig of memory. > I require a working camera, speaker, wifi, and suspend and resume. > Also all hardware that the laptop comes with should work ( except the > fingerprint reader ). > > The dell 6410 has a few issues it seems depending on what flavor of > linux/kernel you are using and what display chip you choose. > > The front runners so far are the Lenovo T410s and the system76 Pangolin.
The Pangolin has a 15.6" widescreen. The Lemur UltraThin might do, but uses a core i3 rather than an i5 or i7. Couple of notes on the Lenovo T410s: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T410s The hard disk "Active Protection System" mentioned in the page above requires loading a daemon package "hdapsd", and also requires the kernel option CONFIG_SENSORS_HDAPS to be enabled and for the "hdaps" module to be loaded. [And this seems best to load as a module rather than building it in.] Only some hard disks come with this firmware according to the page below, so if you eventually decide to change hard disks take that into account. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System One side effect of loading the hdaps module is that the laptop's accelerometers appear as a joystick device, which automatically gets used by MPlayer to fast-forward or rewind video by default. Also note that typically the Lenovo laptops cannot accept oversized laptop hard disks in terms of physical thickness (12.2mm thickness vs 9mm) so they won't accept a 1TB laptop hard disk. The largest capacity 9mm thickness laptop hard disk I can find is 750GB. You'll also need the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL kernel option (and you probably want CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_ALSA_SUPPORT too) in order to get the multimedia buttons to work. (With luck the distro's kernel will be new enough to support these and will all of these options will already be compiled in, but I'm listing them so you can search through the kernel config file for them to verify.) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
