toshiba satellite A15-S129 good or bad?
 

Hi,

I'm looking into buying a Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 but I don't know how well linux will work on it. Does anyone have linux up on this laptop or a similar one? I have RH9 but would be willing to get a different distribution if that would be better. I'm new to Linux and learning as I go so I want to find a laptop that will run linux with only minor complications if possible. Any advice you could give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks

maybe this will help

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html

I don't know how close it is...
 

but I have a Toshiba 1555CDS that works fine.

i dunno how close it is either but i have a Toshiba Satellite Pro m15-s405 and it works fine with RH9

I purchased this laptop about a month ago. I have tried a few distros on it.
Here are the results:

Redhat Linux 9.0 - Installed and worked very nicely. Didn't try modem, but eveything else worked fine. Notes: No sound in Tux Racer, I don't know if this is a Redhat issue or not, but sound worked in Chromium. 3D graphics worked beatifully.

Gentoo Linux 1.4 - I didn't try older versions of this, the version I used was 20030911. Booting from the LiveCD gave a Segmentation Fault when detecting hardware. I received SegFaults quite often when trying to install this. I admit I don't have a lot of experience with Gentoo but I gave up eventually.

Mandrake 9.2 - This is what I currently have on it. While I like some of the design elements of Redhat, I like Mandrake a bit more. Interesting note: Tux Racer has sound but it is delayed. Everything works nicely.

Final thoughts: Use Redhat 9 for a truely brainless and trouble-free install, use Mandrake for some more games (I like) and no need to register for updates.

-Karl :study:

BTW: For $600 after rebates I say this is an excellent laptop.

got one for christmas and pretty much everything works, acpi support is decent(it doesnt seem to be getting the signals from the lid or the power button, but brightess/fan/battery stuff all works). Dont know if the modem works, i dont have dail up

Suse 9 should 100% support it. Along with some nice things like Lid Brightness, fan, battery levels, thermal. Lid close, power and sleep button events. All configurable in yast. If the sound-card stutters, check the firewire settings to see if its sharing an irq with the soundcard...