Ah. Thanks! After looking at the battery life, I'm reconsidering. I'm also seriously thinking about using a metal shop I know to try and craft my own chassis. There's apparently a whole DIY laptop subculture out there (although they usually just buy a premade chassis); this should be fun.
-- Brian C. Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, David Zakar wrote: > The 7700 is a rebranded Sager 9860. The webcam is apparently an "ALI > M5603C". > > The fine folks at http://www.linux-projects.org/ are apparently working > on support. > > -DMZ > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 22:38 -0400, Brian C Merrell wrote: > > I've been looking at laptops with built-in CCDs, specifically the > > Alienware MJ-12 7700. I chatted with one of their sales droids and asked > > if the video camera was supported in Linux, to which the answer was "we > > don't support that." Further inquiries as to the technical specs only get > > me as far as "300K Video Camera Module". (which I presume means 300Kpixel > > CCD, although I saw a stick-on version of one of these that was really > > 100Kpixel and did some software mojo to "claim" 300K) > > > > Question is, does anyone either know what it really is, or better yet, is > > it supported by Linux? > > >
