[techtalk] laptops and drivers

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Jill,

I had a Compaq pressario laptop before my Dell Inspiron 7500.  On both I =
was
able to load and install RedHat and Mandrake.  The Compaq had no probs wi=
th
drivers but the Inspiron had a problem loading the audio driver only in
Mandrake.  That being said, it did finally recognize the audio device  an=
d it
worked only sometimes it would hang on boot up at the device config  part=
 of the
boot when it came to the audio device.  I had to manually reboot, fsck th=
en it
would load properly.

Hope this helps,

Phil

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jill Cote wrote:
> Hi
> I am new with Linux, although I have been reading this
> list for a few months.  I have installed Red Hat 3 or
> 4 times on a workstation.  But, I am interested in
> buying a laptop and running Linux.  Can anyone suggest
> a better vendor, concerning the availibilty of
> drivers.  Or does anyone have others heads up about
> issuses that may complicate anyhting due to my lack of
> experience.
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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