Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Davide Carnovale <francesco.davide.carnovale@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:39:15
Message-Id: AANLkTikXYmRBj_1F4CS6dwGQuosC7pEvF9TgRKJnV6ZV@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"? by Robin Atwood
1 my acer aspire 5740d has an ati card that works, a sunyin (or something)
2 webcam that works, intel hda audio works (although i had to fight for the
3 mic to work) and wifi works too (don't recall what card it has...) never
4 tested hibernation or suspend though...
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8 2011/3/30 Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net>
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10 > I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone
11 > else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware
12 > worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about
13 > WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern.
14 > Currently I have a "Linux Certified" machine but I want to avoid shipping
15 > costs to the UK.
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19 > TIA
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21 > -Robin
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27 > Robin Atwood.
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31 > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
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33 > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
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35 > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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61 > Robin Atwood.
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63 > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
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65 > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
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67 > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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