Laptops For Linux?

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Sat Jul 31 01:02:30 EDT 2004


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Hi Luke. I have a Dell Inspiron600M, and I got Slackware-10.0 running on 
it relatively painlessly. The sound card is an Intel chipset, so it uses 
the Alsa intel8x0 module. Unfortunately, only the S4 state works in 
ACPI...The rest of them I haven't gotten to work reliably. And the 
reason I got this laptop is because it has a serial port! I've lost 
count of how many times the Dectalk has saved my ass when Flite decided 
to not work...Until I was successfully able to configure 
Speech-dispatcher and Speechd_up. For more in-depth installation 
reports, I'd check out www.tuxmobile.com, and also 
www.linux-on-laptops.com. Hope this helps. 
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:15:32PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> Hello, Folks.
> 
> My Wonderful little IBM Thinkpad 600 has finally bitten more dust than 
> not, and with a degrading hard drive, a dead motherboard battery, and a 
> possibly bad parallel port, I think I must sadly move on to something new.
> 
> I really liked the physical design of the TP 600 (the best laptop design I 
> have run into recently).
> 
> I need to get a new unit, upon which I can install Linux rather painlesly.
> 
> I'll need something with one PCMCIA slot and an ethernet port, or two 
> PCMCIA slots, an RS232 serial port, and a parallel port, for all that 
> legasy gear I still must use.
> 
> I am over on linuxlaptops.org right now, but I wanted to get opinions from 
> those here.
> 
> I'm going to buy new for once in my life, so don't tell me about anything 
> more than a year or so old.
> 
> Any recomendations?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Luke
> 
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