With a little work I have it running on a DELL D800. All I can say is that after you have seen linux running native at 1920x1200 on a wide-screen laptop you wont want to use anything else!!!! Sean On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:01, n_powell wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:14:03 -0000 > thus spake "Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P.C.M.Chiu@xxxxxxxx> : > > > Can someone suggest a laptop model and configuration > > that can dual boot XP, Fedora Core or SuSE with reasonable > > performance and least amount of problems. > > I have FC1 and XPpro on a Dell 5100. Both run great. I had to do > nothing to get all the hardware working (except modem which I did't try > as I have fat pipe) The broadcom NIC that was supported by the mnfgr > with a src.rpm in RH9 is now auto detected and humming along when I ran > first boot. Sound was there, touch pad was fine...everything really. > Although I did have to manually select > Display->Dell->$desired_resolution (1024) during install, if you don't > mind 800x600 then you don't even need to do that. > > On XPpro though I needed to install drivers for all included > components...(it came with XPhome)...The M$ kernel doesn't do more than > basic hardware :) > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
