On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 10/03/07, John Bowden <john.bowden43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi List, > > I'm just about to purchase a laptop and have narrowed it down to a > > choice of these: > > > > Hp Compaq Nx7300 Cel-m 430 / 512mb 80gb Dvd+/-rw Dl 15.4-tft Wxga Wxp > > Pro Qw-uk > > > > Lenovo 3000 C200 Cel-m 430 / 512mb 80gb 15-tft Dvd Recordable Aud Wlan > > Vista Hbasic Qw Ts > > > > Hp 510 P-m 770 / 512mb 60gb Dvd+/-rw 15.4-tft Wxga Wxp Home > > > > Dell Inspiron 1501. > > Anyone had any experiance with getting FC6 onto any of these? Any > > recomendations? > > -- > > Registered Linux user number 414240 > > Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest > > intentions and he was going to blow them up > > > > I'm running FC6 on a Dell 6400/E1505 right now. Widescreen display > works, touchpad works, wifi works, usb works, card reader works, VGA > output works. > > Problems: > 1) DON"T TOUCH the Media button. It goes looking for NTFS paritions > and ERASES EVERYTHING when it doesn't find one. Lost my first FC > install that way. I peeled off the Intel Inside and Vista Ready > metallica stickers from the front of the unit and put them over the > media button to prevent accidentally hitting the damn thing. > 2) Bluetooth has proven elusive, but I haven't tried very hard to get > it working. > 3) Sometimes when returning from sleep/hibernate the keyboard nor > mouse work. So it's 5 seconds on the Power button to power down and > power back up. > 4) The media buttons on the front of the unit seem to be decorative > only. Can't get them to do anything other than light up blue. > 5) Although I was able to control the backlight from the built-in Fn > keys when I first installed Fedora, I can no longer do that. I'm not > sure if it was an upgrade or something else, but I can no longer > adjust the screen backlight. > 6) The machine is built from pressed crap. The keyboard is nice to > type on, but the screen is glossy, the rubber shoes fell off in less > than a month, and the machine gets scratched just by breathing on it. > > Also, know that Dell provides NO HELP to the linux community, in > contrast to HP. At least, as far as PDA's go. I'm sorry that I > purchased a x50v and swore that it would be the last of my Dell > hardware. But I was stupid and gave them my money for this lappy. I'd > suggest pressuring Dell by NOT buying their equipment. I have just had a chat with a friend of mine on the phone and he did not have any thing good to say about Dell's home support, and his miss-is used to work for their support office > > Enjoy. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_a_firewall.html > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/wikipedia.html > -- Registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up
