[plug] Linux on Laptops

[Benjamin Woods]

Hey guys,

Starting a new thread for a related topic (old one was "Buying a Laptop").

My questions:

Is there anything new I need to consider when using linux on a laptop instead 
of a desktop?

I am pretty confident with linux on desktops. Kernel compilation is not a 
problem and dont mind tweaking things via text files.

I use Slackware linux and/or ArchLinux and have used HEAPS of other distros 
before. Basically I want to make sure some of the laptop specific things work 
properly for me.

I have already thought of a few things:

CPU Freq. Scaling
Battery monitoring
PCMCIA auto detection of new devices
ATI Mobility FireGL T2 graphics (FLGRX ??) <- want acceleration
(ie... dont wanna use ati in xorg.conf)

Can you guys point out how to do these things?

Are any distros best for laptop linux? i heard ubuntu is great and it has 
flgrx in its repositories...? would prefer to use slackware and i noticed 
flgrx was in linuxpackages.net...

thanks in advance

From: Benjamin Woods
woodsb02 at iinet.net.au
Registered Linux User #372573