On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I understand that the modem will not work (Lucent win modem), but will the
It might. Mine does (assuming you're not overly squeamish about binary-only drivers). > NIC (Intel PRO/100 P Mobile Combo Adapter) There is no floppy drive, will > this stop me installing linux. (Suse 8.0 Pro maybe) Will the screen work ? > (15 svga) The screen should work fine, IIRC XFree 4 has good ATI support (haven't tried it myself, so YMMV). It should work in some VESA mode though, and I'd wager that the frame buffer will work decently too. > Would I be better off to buy a different laptop, Asus L3800 or Toshiba > Satalite Pro 6100 recently reviewed in APC. All of them are much the same - loads of strange, proprietary hardware which will mostly work with Linux, but good luck getting the manufacturers to actually *support* Linux. > I really want the laptop to run Linux and want to aviod making a expensive > mistake($4000+). Ask the vendor to let you install Linux onto it. Repeat until you find one that will. For $4k, I'd let you try before you bought! > I have looked on the internet for info on the three mentioned models but > no joy. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Is probably the definitive location. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
