[plug] Toshiba Tecra S1

[Ryan]

On Thu, 8 May 2003 23:41:36 +0800
Russell Steicke <r.steicke at bom.gov.au> wrote:

> I will be buying a laptop fairly soon, and am currently looking at the
> Toshiba Tecra S1.  Does anyone have any experience to share with running
> redhat or other distro on one of these?  Google and
> www.linux-on-laptops.com didn't tell me anything, perhaps because it's a
> fairly new model.
> 
> It does have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphics chip, which seems to be well
> supported by XFree86 and by ATI.  However, experiences from long ago
> when Toshiba laptops always seemed to have slightly strange hardware
> have made me wary.

ATI support for those new things has not been fantastic in my experience, I'm still not happy with the 7500 in my laptop.

There is an S1 floating around my work.  I'll see if I can pop a knoppix CD (3.1 is all i have atm) in it next week and report what does/doesn't happen :)

Ryan