I can't remember the machine model exactly...just one of those things
that turned me off to their laptops since you have to get support like
you say for X but also for various chipsets, etc. What a PITA...<br>
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M<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul F. Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk">paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>> FWIW I was a member of Silicon Valley LUG a couple of years ago, and<br>> at one of their installfests someone came in with an HP laptop. We<br>> tried and tried to get ANY linux to run on there but were unsuccessful
<br>> with RH, SuSE, and even Gentoo.<br><br>Given the reliance HP have on Linux now, it wouldn't surprise me if<br>things hadn't of changed out of all recognition.<br><br>Which laptop was it that caused the problems? The only one I've had
<br>problems with (recently) was an Asus4400 which uses the Intel 915<br>chipset and a ATI portable 9X (I think!) video chipset. I couldn't get X<br>to start.<br><br>TTFN<br><br>Paul<br>--<br>"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the
<br>best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always<br>said we had the best two teams on Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool<br>Reserves." - Bill Shankly<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br>
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