Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

[Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 04:17, Bill Wohler wrote:
> Mark Seven Smith <pampaluz@home.com> writes:
> > Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video 
> > card delimma; but when I considered the matter, what I 
> > *really* want, is a LAPTOP, than I can use from bed (i have 
> > some health difficulties) for learning Linux, and doing a 
> > lot of paperless reading...
> 
>   I'm typing this from my IBM T20 in bed with an 802.11 PCMCIA card
>   for connectivity. It's a pretty solid, small, lightweight laptop.
> 
>   Have to say that I prefer a touchpad mouse over the Thinkpad mouse
>   though. And I wish the Alt key was where the Function key is. Well,
>   heck, I just noticed that xev shows that X gets the function key
>   press. C-x C-f ~/.Xmodmap RET...

hmm, xmodmap -e "keycode 227 = Alt_L" doesn't change anything in emacs
for me, though xev now recognizes the fn code as Alt_L.  Have you gotten
this to work?

thanks

shaya