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My Acer Aspire One worked with very few modifications. |
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Picked up my wifi card and usb camera (the one in the lid is actually usb), |
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sound card and intel graphics driver (though I haven't yet tried X, only |
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framebuffer, but I get framebuffer in 1024 by 768 on it). Touchpad works |
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fine with gpm mouse driver. |
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Bit of a cheapo netbook but if flies under gentoo, while it was pretty slow |
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under windows. dual core intel Atom. |
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just out of curiosity I also tried the the pixielive cd which runs X for the |
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intel gma graphics chip and is based on gentoo - it gave me full native res |
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with little or now slowdown - I think it uses the poulsbo driver (or some |
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similar name), overall, installing gentoo was painless - the worst |
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experience I had was trying to map my windows key to CTRL-A for use in |
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screen, still haven't managed it! |
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On 30 March 2011 19:31, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone |
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> else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware |
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> worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about |
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> WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. |
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> Currently I have a "Linux Certified" machine but I want to avoid shipping |
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