Hello, How much did this laptop cost? And what kind of screen does it have? Thanks. Dave. On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:28:38 -0500 Jacob Schmude <> writes: > Hi > Well I'll try to give as much info as I can. I've got a toshiba > satellite pro 4340 laptop computer. It's a good system as far as > hardware and performance goes. Intel pentium III 650MHz processor > with 64mb ram. It has a 12GB hard disk. All hardware, even the > winmodem, is linux compatible. It has a built-in floppy and DVD-rom > disk. The sound system works fine with the ALSA drivers, it's a > yamaha YMF744 chip. It's multi-channel, too. There are two type II > pcmcia card slots. It has a serial port, a parellel port, an IRDA > port, and a USB port. I've got slackware linux running on it right > now. The modem, a lucent LT winmodem, works well with kernels 2.2 > and 2.4 with the lucent driver. In full power mode it gives about 3 > hours continuous battery life. However, there's no reason to unload > their windows that comes with this machine. It's win 98SE and all > the drivers are prop[erly set up for you. You just need to get rid > of the desktop wallpaper and theme and any windows screen reading > program will work fine. I just used fips to split the windows > partition and installed linux on the rest of the drive. Speakup on > this system works well! The num-pad, as in most laptops, is used by > depressing the FN key and then the keys on the right side of the > keyboard. Even the insert-key combinations are no problem really, > but you need to be a bit dextrous to handle some of them. The only > complaint I have about this laptop is that there's only one control > key on the left side of the keyboard. It would have been nice to > have another control key on the right side, but oh well. > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:21:57PM -0500, Brian Moore wrote: > > Greetings all. Okay, finally am breaking down and hunting for a > laptop > > computer . I want to use this machine to boot both linux and > windows. I > > suspect windows will have no real problems since I will probably > get a > > machine with it loaded whether or not I want their windows. > However, I have > > had bad experiences with other machines in the past which required > lots of > > drivers and would only work with the OF.a.m version of windows > from that > > particular laptop company. would like to avoid this if at all > possible > > since I will probably nuke the disk as the first thing and put a > standard > > version of win98 se and create a Linux partition running slackware > or redhat > > or something like that. would like as little strange hardware as > possible. > > I really like like the keyboards on the thinkpad computers but > they are > > pretty costly and i.b.m sometimes has strange hardware > configurations at > > least on the desktop machines I have worked with. Would be most > interested > > in people's experience with notebook computers. I don't mind > spending a > > little more money for a good machine but really want to avoid > proprietary > > software and sound video chips etc. any thoughts viaprivate mail > would be > > much appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
