Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:01:56 +0100 Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [snip] On my Acer Aspire (3690-2672), sound works out of the box. From lspci: That's encouraging. I must investigate further when I get back to mine next

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 14 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After It

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After It took a while for ipw2200 to work right, I don't

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance The 'debian-laptop' list is an excellent resource

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also the sound is a problem. They all do work but it is not

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After It took a while for ipw2200 to work right, I don't think iwlwifi is there yet (unless you're using 2.6.23-rc

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance The Fujitsu P7120 works

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also the sound is a problem. They all do work but it is not fun. Get Intel wireless along with any thinkpad.

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: 2. Lenovo Thinkpad Those *will* give you trouble for now. I speak this as the maintainer for the kernel thinkpad-acpi module :-P As time passes, we will learn enough about them to support them better. I'd second this.

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific trouble about sound cards as my first goal is to get sound system perfectly working. Any other feedback about sound system

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific trouble about sound cards as my first goal is to

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/9/12, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:57:38 +0100 Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:57 AM, Richard Lyons wrote: Good Luck! All my laptops have been silent. But otherwise, all have run debian out of the box (not counting winmodems of course), old Thinkpads, old Dell, and even a new Acer Aspire. And the thinkpad keyboard puts all others in the shade.

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:57:38 +0100 Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a

debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Raffaele Morelli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance 1. IBM Thinkpad 2. Lenovo Thinkpad WT -- To the systems

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread André César de Sá
Get a Toshiba / Asus.. :P On 11/09/2007, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele Morelli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense.

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Donald Davis
My first question would be: Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled? I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. Nvidia support is excellent. ATI support (even with proprietary drivers) is not so great. Look at the internal

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:34 +0100, André César de Sá wrote: Get a Toshiba / Asus.. :P I've been using Debian on a Toshiba M105-S3074 for nearly a year now and it runs great, despite all the talk about Toshiba ignoring Linux. As long as the hardware inside is not exotic, having official vendor's

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:50:15 + (GMT) Donald Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first question would be: Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled? I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. Nvidia support is excellent. ATI

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance I have experience with Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505, Toshiba satellite P25-s507. I am pretty happy with

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Wayne Topa wrote: Raffaele Morelli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. 1. IBM Thinkpad Get a R52, T42 (best of the