I have a micron gobook233 and am running RH 8.0 it takes minustes to every thing but it is all that I have so I wait. I am going to buy a new laptop on 5/30/03 and I need help finding the best one and the best distro for it I have only used rh and som mandrake 8.0 and 9.0, no other distros I like rh because that is the one that I have used the most. But I am looking at a LC2200 from Linuxcertified for 1299 plus 38 shipping or a dell I1100 for 799 i like the price on the dell but have read a lot of issue with dell and linux. I am a father of four and work full time and go to school night so spare time I do not have that is why I was looking at the LC2200 in the first place but the money is alot more then I want to spend if any one out there has a good suggestion with suppor tfor it pleas post asap
And thank you for all the help I have gottne here especail from
icyfiRe611 and every one else!!!

i have a dell latitude CPx laptop (old one). Slackware 8.1/9/ RHL 8/9 worked great on it . The combo xircom pcmcia card was detected fine (NIC and modem works great). Dell had been in close ties with Red Hat for their products so u might want to contact Dell directly and ask them about this. (you might want to get one that has REd Hat Linux pre-installed - Dell sells them.)

Thank you I have called them and asked they told me that they dont do that any more only for large orders for one laptop that was a No.

I use a toshiba satellite 1415-S173 and Mandrake 9.0. Everything detected perfect at first boot except the modem isn't yet supported. Or if it is, I haven't yet found an updated driver for it. But I also use DSL so there really isn't much problem with me, just an inconvience.

Try HP ones, they seems worrk well with penguins. I was using OmniBook xe2 now am using xe3, all parts functional with RedHat 7.3 - 9, no needed for menu installation at all. Solid work horse type of laptop, not very good for games though.

You can also review my post:
"Penguin Friendly Laptops" 01-06-2003 11:15 PM by icy-flame

Hi,

I have had 3 HP's so far incl the current one. I could run Linux on all of them, though I wouldn't say that everything ran perfect. But you can somehow make it work fine. THere might be some problems with the video driver but you can tackle that. (Win)Modems might be a problem but I have never had the need to try the modem at all.

Beyond that I would say you can definitely get HP. My current one is Pav zt1195.

CHeers,
Senthil

My Toshiba Sat 1405 has a nasty keyboard "bounce" prroblem wwith XFree86-4.3.0 (Knoppix 3.2), as you caan see. The saame distro is fine on my desktop machines. Any Ideas? Itt is fine in cconsole mmode.

When choosing laptops, consider modems, video chipsets & features, Pointing devices (aand features), and power control features (acpi/apm stuff). Most everything else will be fine. Modems are the biggest problem. Linux mostly works very well on mosst lapttops. It ggives mucch better battery life on my old Compaq Armada 4120 tthen Win98 does. I expect tthhe same witth my new Toshiba once I get that propietary "speedstep" Intel processor module compiled into tthe kernel.

Well I've got a Dell 2650, RH 8/9 Installed easily only problem is that I haven't got the Battery Monitor working. When I used Mandrake 9.1 everything worked out of the box except for the modem, just went to the conexant site and downloaded the RPMs for RH and Mandrake both worked with the modem. Mandrake I was able to download akpi and then my battery monitor worked since ACPI was pre-compiled in the Mandrake kernel.

By the way I had to go to the NVIDIA site and download the driver for the NVIDIA GeForce 2 Go, but the installation is simple with the new driver. The laptop display did work with the Generic VESA driver also but without acceleration and only 16 bit.

I have your answer... although this isn't the thread for this. I was given this solution from some one very nice. I haven't tried it but I've passed it along and no one has every complained.

Here is the info:

This stuff is on my Toshy site for 1415-S173's

http://www.calpoly.edu/~rmartine

Assuming you don't want to do lot of configuration yourself, I would definitely recommend the LC2200 laptop. I bought this from LinuxCertified last month, and am very happy with it.

It is running rh8.0.

Hello all,
I've got an IBM Thinkpad R31 and I must say I am very satisfied with its linux compability. The only thing that doesn't work properly is...yes, you might have guessed it, acpi. Anyway, I find apm still functional so I don't complain, I'll just wait until the 2.6 kernel series come out. Oh, by the way, I installed Debian Woody, switched to unstable and installed GNOME, which runs responsively.

I've had good luck with combinations of RedHat on Dell Inspirons. Only gripe is that RH8-9 does not provide he mp3 libraries (though they're easy to find and to install). Only other problems I've had with the Inspirons are:
- bit of trouble finding the XFree settings for the 1400/1600 screens (plenty of help available on the interner)
- on an inspiron 8200 sound played at double speed. Had to add a line "options i810_audio clocking=48000" to my modules.conf

In our shop we run RedHat 8/9 on compaq Armada's and (I think) Evos - no problem whatsoever with those.

Hope this helps,

Tom

When you installed akpi use akpi-0.xxx.rpm, how can you get the miniicon in the tray-bar? I installed the rpm package, run "akpi"
and I got the message "kbuildsycoca running...". Does anyone have idea about this problem? Thanks for your kindly help.