[Techtalk] Linux and Laptops

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at edsons.demon.nl
Fri Sep 17 14:59:42 EST 2004


Noir wrote:

>>but otherwise hw support is getting better and
>>better
>>    
>>
>
>I just bought a Toshiba Satellite R4R two days ago. So
>here's my 0.02% on linux and laptop:
>
>The machine is a P-IV 3.2 GHz w/ DVD burner, Wifi,
>60GB HDD; it uses Windows compatible sound card
>(AC97(?)), a winmodem and graphics is ATI Raedon
>(spelling?).
>
>My OS of choice is OpenBSD and it won't even boot in
>the laptop. So I switched back to the next best thing:
>Slackware 9.1. Slacky installed fine, excellent X
>window (KDE and xfce) and everything. BUT it doesn't
>detenct the winmodem, the wifi and ATI graphics in not
>supported if you want to do 3D image rendering. Oh,
>and did I say that there's no sound?!
>
>Solution: Slacky currently runs on kernel 2.4.22 and
>to get wifi I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6. And I
>_think_ that will also help me to detect my modem and
>sound card as well (BTW, this sound card is fully
>compatible w/ OpenBSD > 3.5.). If not ALSA project is
>there!
>
>ATI graphics are supported by the latest version of
>X11 so I need to upgrade that one as well. And
>everything should work fine after that.
>
>--Noir.
>  
>
You can also upgrade to slacky 10. That has a big improvement on HW 
detection and is better prepared for 2.6.

Cheers,

Rudy


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