How about the support of FC for laptop?

Sun Oct 31 21:31:45 UTC 2004

didn't IBM say it support Linux on all their machines ?

arg.. i was about to say something else but i forgot it...

søn, 31.10.2004 kl. 22.04 skrev Amitabha Roy:
> Moreover, making suspend/resume work on laptop with ACPI is currently
> like playing roulette at Vegas. Sometimes you win,
> most often the house wins handily. However, you don't ever lose
> data, so its worth a try.
> 

unless it "comes back" but with disk(controller) halfway hosed etc. not
that i ever saw that...

> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:49:47 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I would avoid Intel graphics. Nvidia works out of the box even with the
> > > opensource driver...
> > > and except for brand new releases of FC, their binary driver work well.
> > >
> > > Intel graphics are painful. They are integrated with the BIOSes, and
> > > needed special hacks just to
> > > get some video memory earlier... and stick suck badly wrt. to getting
> > > proper display modes too
> > >
> > > I thought Intel was great, and Nvidia bad. Experience has taught me
> > > otherwise.
> > 
> > I guess it all comes down to bios; I've seen a lot of cases where nvidia
> > didn't work; even with the binary driver (nvidia focusses on the desktop
> > chips not so much on the laptop ones).
> > 
> > So.. whatever you buy google first to see if others could make the
> > laptop work.....
> > 
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