Jonathan Berry wrote:
Hi all,
I've been looking for an inexpensive laptop to run Linux on and was
wondering if anyone had any recommendations. I really like the ~14"
widescreen form factor and definitely want something portable. I'd
also like something fairly inexpensive, preferably < $750. I usually
prefer AMD CPUs, but most of the AMD laptops out there use the ATI
X200 chipset, which I've not heard anything good about (as far as
Linux support). So, I'm thinking maybe it's time to consider an Intel
based laptop. Those seem to have fairly good open source driver
support (with Intel video and wireless).
So, does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks,
Jonathan
I agree, your best bet for compatibility is a centrino-based laptop in
that it has IPW2100/2200/2915 which already is built into the kernel,
you just need to get the driver ipw2100-firmware or ipw2200-firmware,
which you can get from the sourceforge site, or install from livna (what
I do). As far as graphics, my laptop has an ATI graphics card, there
isn't any big issue except the ATI driver stopped running doom 3 again
recently, before FC5 came out. Both have drivers easily installed from
livna (once a compatible kernel is released).
-Dan
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