On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:14, Sam Storie wrote: > I am in the market for a laptop and these days I am using Linux (Debian) > as my primary OS. Like Erik and Lorry, I went to Dell for my laptop. I've got a 4100, which I got because it's relatively inexpensive and Dell offers a 1600x1200 UXGA screen with it. (I know a lot of people cringe when they see a resolution like that, but remember that you can almost always increase font sizes, and LCD panels are *much* crisper than CRTs) I've got almost all of the hardware working on it. The winmodem works with a proprietary driver (well, mine works. some people apparently have a different chip than I do), and the ATI video card I got works unaccelerated with XFree86 up to 4.1, and accelerated video works with 4.2. I haven't been able to get the XVideo extension working, and TV-out is a no-go as well, but those are the only remaining problems for me. However, you should be warned that it has a crummy AC'97 audio card that only does sound output at 48kHz. 44.1kHz audio (a much more common sample rate) has to be interpolated and have extra samples generated to bring it up to 48000 samples/sec.. If you feel like getting one, I'd recommend getting an extra battery. I barely ever use the DVD drive, so may as well not let the drive bay go to waste. Also, note that Dell systems have problems when APIC (advanced programmable interrupt controller) support is enabled in the kernel -- something Debian does by default in 2.4.x kernels. You'll have to recompile to have a 2.4.x system work right, but 2.2.x works fine. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Any philosophy that can be / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ put in a nutshell belongs \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) there [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020503/a01fa4db/attachment.pgp