Re: Recommendations for Laptop
[via the November archive]
>Andrew Clark said:
>> I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any
>> recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid?
>
>If you're willing to pay new laptop prices, www.linuxlaptops.com will sell
>you one with Linux preinstalled. Even if you don't buy from them, their list
>of available models will give you some machines that are known to work well
>with Linux. Highly recommended.
>
>Otherwise, I've got a UMax ActionBook 320T which works well, with two
>caveats:
>
>1) The screen whines in X and UMax won't divulge the proper refresh settings
>because "we only support Windows". Also, 800x600x32 works in Windows, but
>I can't get it to work for X.
>From ERV's Monitor Service Monitor FAQs
(http://www.monitorservice.com/faqs.html):
[in response to many customers even in MSwin asking for "monitor drivers"
they first explain how to tell if your monitor has plug-and-play support.]
Common settings: The following sweep frequencies will be generally
helpful to the users that set up the software for the monitors. and we
will only list the common SVGA modes.
* SVGA MODE VGA60 horizontal 31.469 khz vertical 59.941 hz. 640x480
* SVGA MODE VGA103 horizontal 46.874 khz vertical 75.000 hz 800x600
* SVGA MODE VESA85 horizontal 53.674 khz vertical 85.061 hz 800x600
* SVGA MODE VESA75 horizontal 60.023 khz vertical 75.029 hz 1024x768
* SVGA MODE VESA85 horizontal 68.667 khz vertical 84.997 hz 1024x768
* SVGA MODE VESA horizontal 63.981 khz vertical 60.020 hz 1280x1024
* SVGA MODE VESA85 P horizontal 91.146 khz vertical 85.024 hz
1280x1024
* SVGA MODE VESA75 horizontal 79.976 khz vertical 75.025 hz
1280x1024
* SVGA MODE VESA70 horizontal 87.500 khz vertical 70.000 hz
1600x1200
* SVGA MODE VESA75 horizontal 93.750 khz vertical 75.000 hz
1600x1200
The above listing represents the latest published info taken from a
new monitor's users manual preset . Your settings may vary slightly
depending on horizontal phase (position) settings.
A very handy set of notes to keep around - perhaps it will help!
>2) APM doesn't seem to like X either. If it goes to sleep/suspend while X
>is up, the graphics card won't reset itself properly when it wakes up.
>(Which can be worked around by telling BIOS to stay awake if it sees VGA
>activity and always remembering to switch to a text console before closing
>the cover.)
>
>It's not perfect, but it's workable and I'm happy with it.
I had read that older X especially had a problem with apm, but I'm not sure
if that's what you're suffering.
>Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+:+ a- C+++ UL++>$ P+>+++ L++>++++ E- W+(--) N+ o+ !K
>w--- O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+
Well, since you mentioned it, I haven't updated it in ages, but here's mine
from last year:
Version: 3.12 modified
GCS/M/MU/LS/L/S/TW d- s-: a- C++ UL++++$S P++(---)$ L++' E--- W+++(L++)
N !o !K w++(--) M+ V- PS+ PE@ Y+' PGP+ t@ 5++ X R+++ tv->! b++ DI++++
D+(---) G e+ h- r+++ x+++
-* Heather Stern * Starshine Technical Services * star@starshine.org *-
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