Laptop advice 3911
On 06-15-2005 11:30 AM, Noah Roberts
I don't think the laptops have any to do with 64bit computing unless you will be running high volume data processing apps like Scientifc and, or statistical anaysis, CAD with 3D modeling.
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner I'm also looking into buying a Linux box, and starting with a...
On 21 Jun 2005 06:35:45 -0700, synex staggered into the Black Sun and said: easy, but it's considered good manners to include some context from previous articles when you...
I have a DELL Inspiron 4150, P4-M 1.8GHz, 256Kb SDRAM, 40Gb HDD:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev04) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA-CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 42) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA-CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA-CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW Radeon Mobility 7500 Tornado (rev 78) 0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Every thing including volume up-down-mute buttons is working fine, except for the button to access DELL's support and that's not a constaint.
I have Knoppix 3.8 installed, though I had to tweak around for special buttons and 3D graphics accelration and AGP mode 4. I recently have upgraded to kernel version 2.6.12 which gave me some noticable performance imrovements in running and loading interactive apps.
I have not attempted to try any WiFi and, or wireless networing, but I think there is a lot of support is available for prism54 and even RTL based cards, there is a well known issue -- that chaina made prism54 based cards have problems with Linux drivers.
I for one would prefer purchasing one which is already a tryied and, or tested one by a few at least.
Hey all, I'm returning to RedHat (partially) after a long stint with Windows, and I'm trying to refamiliarise myself with it. I'm getting on alright in the...
You need not install anything, for purposes of testing you may use some live CD to boot off from the CD-DRIVE itself, though you may experience some sluggishness in running some bigger apps, but it is aways good to test and, or check hardware compatibility with Live-CD before finilizing any deal.
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:26:22 +0000, Grant Edwards Very true. I would go so far as to say that dselect shouldn't be included in...
Hope that helps! -- Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 CLLO (Chief Linux Learning Officer) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192