Debian and laptops

kurrupt · 01-14-2005, 02:02 PM

hey guys iam going to be buying a notebook soon.. and iam just wondering how well does debian detect laptop hardware like wireless, touch pad etc.. ( with the new sarge installer).

I only use Debian on my machines but this is the first notebook i have ever bought so iam wondering about compatibility

tandhlinux · 01-14-2005, 05:57 PM

I have tried to install Fedora Core 1 & 2 on my Dell C800 laptop. Not a success. SUSE better but not easy on the sound config. Aparantly it is possible but i did not suceed. I have just installed Debian Woody and it seems to be OK at the moment.
DELL should be easy but their site does not have a lot of support for Linux.

jerber · 01-16-2005, 05:37 AM

I recently installed a dual boot with XP and Knoppix 3.7 on my compaq evo n1015v and it
works fine. Knoppix is based on debian.

double//cut · 01-16-2005, 06:33 AM

Toshiba Satellite Pro

Debian, detects everything.

Wireless card / sound / both mice / cdrom / external usb floppy

Display did not work though, abit of tweaking, and installed NVidia drivers

jwn7 · 01-17-2005, 08:49 PM

debian picked up everything except my wireless card.

ubuntu picked up everything except my wireless card :P

between the two, ubuntu gets the nod over debian for a laptop. it automatically installs and sets up certain laptop related packages. plus it's debian based so you'll have apt-get still.

melinda_sayang · 01-18-2005, 04:58 AM

I recommend ubuntu too. It detects everything but the battery support is broken.

FF103 · 01-20-2005, 03:22 PM

I'm running Yoper on an Averatec laptop and it found everything. Yoper also uses apt get.