Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: michael@×××××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Laptop Advise
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:47:04
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0511172343160.14423@mail.magrittesystems.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Laptop Advise by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Not sure I'd do it, but I read somewhere that the walmart computer
2 supports gentoo well. was it on this mailinglist? it's under $500 and
3 runs linspire, so it's 90% (or whatever) of the way there.
4
5 http://media.linspire.com/walmart/
6
7 On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
8
9 > On Thursday 17 November 2005 04:37 pm, puskas wrote:
10 >> I have a Dell Latitude D600 and it's entirely supported.
11 >
12 > My D610 also seems well supported, although I have yet to enable (or
13 > require) the accelerated 3D.
14 >
15 > Network card: tg3
16 > Wireless card: ndiswrapper
17 > Video: ati-drivers (frglx)
18 > Audio: Intel AC'97 (intel8x0)
19 > Bluetooth looks like it works but I don't use it.
20 > PCMCIA looks like it works but I don't use it. (yenta_socket)
21 > All 3 pointers work, at the same time in X.
22 > Had a few problems playing the one DVD I tried, but I could read all the
23 > files on the disk fine.
24 > Battery seems to last longer in linux than windows, when using the
25 > conservative governor.
26 >
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28 > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
29 > bss03@××××××××××.com
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