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Old 04-22-2005, 01:08 PM   #16
Gerardoj
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Hey. Im using a HP dv1000 series and it works perfect my slackware 10.0. My Intel Video Card works very nice, my wireless Intel works very good with ipw2200 and I have all the support for ACPI. I just recompiled the kernel to run on 2.6x and there you go... (y)
 
Old 04-22-2005, 07:39 PM   #17
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slack 10.0 installed fine out of the box on a dell inspiron 4150. i had to run alsa_mixer, naturally, and i had to upgrade the orinoco driver for my dell truemobile wireless card, but only to scan for available AP's (otherwise it worked fine.) i have not tried the ATI drivers, i'm happy with VESA.
 
Old 04-22-2005, 08:23 PM   #18
The_Last_Nerd
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i have slack 10.0 on an old compaq 1625 laptop. works like a charm really. i use fluxbox and its pretty quick for a 266. more than enough for casual use for sure
 
Old 04-24-2005, 12:01 AM   #19
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Slack 10 on an IBM Thinkpad 600 (300mhz laptop) w/ recompiled 2.6.7 kernel (I know, newer ones are out, but I really like the stability of 2.6.7 compared to 2.6.11 and the like). Runs great, no problems (modem is too old and doesn't have modern drivers, but that's more kernel related than slack related).

Here is another vote for Thinkpads in general. They are insanely awesome as far as Linux laptops go.

Last edited by SocialEngineer; 04-24-2005 at 12:02 AM.
 
Old 04-24-2005, 04:48 PM   #20
brancalessio
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Hello! I run Slackware 10.0 on my Acer TravelMate 261 XV.

Sorry, but I can't do lspci now... More or less the hardware is: Intel Pentium III 1000 MHz, 256 MB RAM, and Intel i830M. I can even use the internal modem with slmodem (you can download it on SmarkLink web site).

I had some problems with X at the beginning. The solution was not so easy to found, even though the only thing needed was to change "modprobe agpgart" into "#modprobe agpgart" in rc.modules...
 
Old 04-24-2005, 06:45 PM   #21
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Well I haven't gotten home from trip yet to try Slack on my Toshiba tecra m3 but I have already researched and everything seems to run fine from what I have seen.

Oh and it has an nvidia 6600 in it
 
Old 08-02-2005, 07:16 PM   #22
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still got slackware 10 kickinass on my hp dv1130us. very stable, even with enlightenment dr17 as a windowmanager. i even had to set up a dns server on it for temporary for my company cause our dns server fried. i am running 2.6.11.12, and i have edited video and audio on it, used for server, i get good battery life, and as usual, slackware on it is rock solid. i have tried a few distros on here, just playing around, but i always come home to slack.

also, i have slackware 9.1 installed on an ibm j160 (i cant remember the exact model) and it has ran for 591+ days constant. i used it as my ftp server for small files to customers. now, this laptop was a 266mhz P2, with 96 mb ram and a 12 gig harddrive ( and that is cause i upgraded the 4 giger). if it will run on there, it will scream on anything you put it on. i used fluxbox when i wanted x or wanted to browse the web. enlightenment dr16 ran well on it, but you couldnt turn on much eye-candy. flux was faster. but slackware stayed solid no matter what.

the only fus i have with slack is the newest 10.1. it gives me hell on my sound with alsa. sounds garbled. tried to fix it several times on my dv1130us, but never got it fixed. i finally quit cause i have always like slackware 10 better anyway, and installed it, then upgrade the kernel and packages that i used and needed upgraded. i dont think it is a "slackware" problem directally, but rather an alsa driver, or something. either way, we dont use slackware to figure out problems, we use it cause it works! well, i use slackware 10 cause it works!
 
Old 08-02-2005, 08:11 PM   #23
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I just inherited a Latitude C810.
It has an Nvidia video card, so no messing about with silly ATI cards.
It is a great behemoth of a laptop (which makes it perfect for me), and the only problem I'm having with it is the fact that the hard drive is dying (which is the whole reason I inherited it in the first place...Holy Crap, I'm the family computer junkyard! Not too sure how I feel about that...).

Good luck with your new laptop!

Edit:
The hard drive is dead. Long live the hard drive!

Last edited by Charred; 08-03-2005 at 11:22 AM.
 
  


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