why do u say that, i have a dell 5100 and i was thinking of going linux. i was wondering about drivers for my touch pad and pcmcia cards.Originally Posted by Gillion
why do u say that, i have a dell 5100 and i was thinking of going linux. i was wondering about drivers for my touch pad and pcmcia cards.Originally Posted by Gillion
oh and about the laptop, i would go with a company that can give good service and support, not saying necessarily dell, but some company that should be around for a while
Megi ... do some research for the Drivers on your dell before you install linux.
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please man... touch pads and pcmcia cards are the least.Originally Posted by megiddo
A touch pad is nothing more than a flat inverted glorified PS2 mouse.
As for pcmcia cards, those are often the least of your worries since MOST of them will always work as long as there are drivers for them and most pcmcia cards nowadays have Linux drivers.
Now with kernel 2.6.xxx laptop setups are way easier and I hear SuSE 9.2 is specially tweaked for added latop niceness.
However what I made refference to is the often SH1TTY idiosyncrasies that Dell has with their laptops.
Such as funky nonstandard hardware, odd and undocumented motherboard features, half hearted video implemetations, buggy bios code and an overall poor design.
Infact SONY, IBM, HP and TOSHIBA laptops are the only laptops that have official Linux kernel support modules built in for them so that the various special features ESPECIALLY powermanagement works out of the box for them. I have never seen a Dell laptop todate that has a specialised kernel module built for it.
The problem is that Dell is not consistent in its designs and as such there are SOME models that run perfectly with all features enabled under Linux and there are some that don't
You may be one of the lucky ones and get all or most.
check here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/
here
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html
and here
http://www.tuxmobile.org/
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ok thanks for the help, will check the sites