Igor, I bought this laptop refurbished from Dell Financial Services at the end of December. It only set me back $435, and I've since replaced the battery and purchased a CDRW/DVD combo for the unit. It seems to be able to handle Linux very nicely though, aside from the few things I've noted here. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/16/2004 at 1:16 PM Igor Gueths wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >I'm not sure about that card specifically since I don't have one. >Hmm...When did you get that particular machine? The only reason i ask is >bc I may then get one for myself...Assuming of course that they're still >using 3Com cards and some supported sound card. >On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:51:35AM -0500, Stephen Clower wrote: >> Hi Igor, >> I am using an Es Maestro3 sound chip. It is supported under ALSA and >OSS, though I haven't seen any performance differences with Alsa. My >on-board 3comm nic worked without any problems. Is there a setting I >should change which might improve the quality of the sound on my computer? >> >> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. >> You can reach me by any of the following: >> E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net >> MSN: steve at steve-audio.net >> AIM: AudioRabbit03 >> >> You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting >http://www.steve-audio.net >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >- -- >Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFAgBTbNohoaf1zXJMRAlwOAKCkNCZhOVjLZBLB9bV8rVXmps5YDgCeKog8 >Jzrs1noBLUPCwY3gjcHj6Pk= >=rqti >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
