The difficult thing about this is that its hard to know that you are getting an Intel HDA setup. I got a NVidia chipset and it ended up being a Intel HDA. Also watch out for VIA video cards, they are awful and have poor Linux support (yes they have drivers but its locked down to kernel and distro to work). -Steven Hicks Graduate Student Department Of Computer Science University Of North Carolina at Charlotte On Monday 08 June 2009 21:10:08 Daren Krive wrote: > I am all over the idea of getting a "Linux friendly" laptop the next time I > go shopping. So far I know enough to stay away from: > 1) ATI video cards > 2) Intel HDA sound > > anything else I should be aware of? I still want to get decent hardware. > Can someone recommend a laptop brand that typically has good support for > Linux? I do not want a clunker. I like something reasonably "sexy" like > my LG is (check out the pic) > > http://ca.lge.com/en/products/catalog/MultiImageDisplay.jsp?categoryId=0402 >10&modelCodeDisplay=S1- QP01A9&imageUrl=/en/down/product/040210/S1-QP01A9/S1_ >T1_Angle_LRG.jpg > > Regards, > > Daren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
