As a unit of barter, I see you exchanged money for time.
As for notebooks, Linux AFAIK, has always sucked. Notebooks always
contain bespoke hardware that's why they cost so much relative to PCs.
ASU will sell you a laptop with Linux pre-installed.
On 12/11/05, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Warning: ficto-criticism alert.
> Tried Ubuntu after some bad times with Redhat going the unstable
> Fedora route after switching back to Slackware, first
> used on a command line in days one couldn't figure a use for
> MS Win 3.1 on a Tosbiba 3400 notebook, only to find spending
> days and weeks trying to get rid of the strange bug-like things
> in the latest Slackware (still can't figure out if I was hallucinating
> when user id defaulted to 0) so what else to do but erase hard drive,
> partition and install the latest stable version of Debian 3.1.
> Two DVDs or 13 CDs of software. It took a week just to read the
> glowing blurbs. As for up to date documentation... had
> better get use to reading configuration shell scripts. Ubuntu based
> on the unstable and testing trees of Debian source and get
> to know why unstable and testing and need broadband internet to
> download extra applications. Ubuntu didn't have essentials like
> LaTex and Lyx, in testing but then only had one CD and couldn't
> find emacs not that I looked that hard. At least nano is a
> little more friendly then those vi things you need to edit config
> scripts.
Vi: the programmers friend.
> With the stable Debian still getting X server freezes... at first
> thought it may have been security logs accessing the same vt as
> X server so fixed this problem but still X server kept
> freezing. So back to 800x600 screen at 75 Hz, below video
> card and monitor capabilities, suspecting S3 virge driver is
> unstable at higher resolutions although it should be stable at 85Hz
> only tested Debian at 800x600 at 85Hz and for this it was rock
> solid and reconfiguring the X server for higher resolutions
> after mission critical install, so what else could it be?
> Been reading documentation for a month trying to find reason for
> this unstable X server and many another thing. (Built computer
> hardware from individual components explicitly to run unix-like
> system, but the bios warnings about settings needed for SCO unix
> seem somewhat obsolete.) And then there was modem... nothing too
> difficult really for an ISA Cirrus Logic V34 internal modem and no it is
> not a Winmodem! a hardware modem... fear I have begun arguing with those
> howto writers who seem to think internal modems are software modems
> and no I am not going to buy an external hardware modem just because
> finding a serial port for an internal ISA modem is considered just
> too difficult when all one need do is:
>
> pnpdump -c --outputfile=/etc/isapnp.conf
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 4 port 0x3E8 autoconfig
>
> and put this in wherever it maybe that Debian thinks would do for what
> passes as /etc/serial. Did find where this was, BTW, but forget
> where.
I, personally, would have given up and bought an external modem. At
least you would be able to use apt-get. $AU60 in exchange for the
better chance of getting your system working?
Roger
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