Re: Toshiba laptops & Debian
"Pisut Tempatarachoke" <pxt@ph.adfa.edu.au> writes:
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> Hi everybody,
>
> I am very very new to Linux, and hoping to buy a laptop that
> is most compatible with Debian. Could anyone please provide
> me with comments on Debian GNU/Linux and Toshiba laptops (or
> more specifically Tecra S1 1.4 GHz) compatability, and
> perhaps suggest which laptop I might consider apart from
> Toshiba.
>
> Once I buy a laptop, I am planning to partition its hard drive
> so I could use both Windows XP and Debian. Are there any
> special specifications or configerations of the laptop that I
> should look for when I shop around?
>
> Thank you very much folks.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tempo
I have a Toshiba T9000, and while it mostly works I have had
"the usual" (for me anyway) toshiba problems with it.
All toshiba keyboards, but for one I used 5 years ago, have
been "broken". That is, the physical keyboard very often fails
to register that you are just pressing a key, and instead thinks you
very rapidly hitting it, causing it to generate multiple
keypresses for a single key. This seems to be patched in the
windows keyboard drivers, so while using windows you don't see
it, but running linux you do... :-(
There is a small patch for pc_keyb.c in the kernel floating
around which fixes this, which I've been applying to the boxen
I've been running, so it is fixable if Toshiba is your only
choice, but if I was buying a toshiba privately I would be
hesitant about paying money for this kind of stuff...
Best Regards
Tobbe
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