Re: Please tell your success story
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote:
> Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX?
I have, or actually my employer did. And it wasn't all that recently either. It was bought in december. But I'm answering anyways.
> Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved
> problems.
Hewlett packard Omnibook 4150
> I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class:
>
> 6-15 GB HD
Mine has something like that, don't really know. It about 10-20% full. The ones that are for sale now have about 18 gigs i think.
> 64-128 MB RAM
Yepps, 128. Works great.
> USB, serial, parallel
I haven't tried USB or parallel, but serial works great. Finally I got IrDA working too.
> floppy
I used it during install. It would problary still work, if I needed it.
> DVD instead of CD
Yepps. But mine went broke. I did get it working with linux though. Watching Star Trek insurrection was NOT real time.
> 14" color
Yepps?!
> external wheel mouse possible
Yepps. But external mouse support only seems to work once without a reboot. I don't need to boot with a mouse inserted, but once the mouse is removed it requires a reboot to get it working a second session.
> sound
I felt forced to buy a commercial OSS license :( Neomagic-someting.
> modem and/or Ethernet included
Noops. I'm currently using a Xircom realport which workes really bad. Am waiting for a 3c575 to show up in my mail.
I havn't had any problems with apm.
The machine works quite ok. Some things could be better. If it wasn't for company policy, i would had bougt a thinkpad.
/Martin
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