[plug] Recent notebook linux experience?

Garry garbuck at westnet.com.au
Wed Oct 1 10:50:43 WST 2003




Ahhh.. Excellent.. Was wondering how/if the A10 went..

The P20 is also impressive, but twice the price. Love that biiiiiig
display, but 5 grand?!!!

8^)===

Garry







On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:02:24 +0800
Tim Bowden <bowden at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Garry wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone bought a notebook computer lately, which they found easy
> > to get fully functional (sound, drives, display acceleration)?
> > 
> I've just got a new toshiba a10.  Knoppix works great but the debian
> 3.0 install disk had a bit of trouble with the network card and video 
> driver.  Network card sorted with an updated kernel (thanks Nick) and 
> updated xfree86 should be up and running soon.  Uses the i810 driver. 
> No idea how good acceleration is for this.  No idea about the modem. 
> Will try it when all else is sorted and nothing else more pressing to 
> do.  Got it from http://www.cybershop.net.au/notebook_new.htm  They
> seem to know what they are doing and two other people have recommended
> them to me.
> 
> Tim Bowden
> 
> 
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