Yup Dell is nice enough to do that. If you are lucky you might even get wirelesss to work out of the box.. good luck, Cody ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 10:42 AM Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:43:25PM -0800, Hurst, Cody wrote: >> Anything without an Nvidia video card should do what you are looking for. >> Not an hp because that is what I have and ubuntu never booted and >> installed > > Thanks, Cody. Kinda sounds like my ATI All-In-Wonder card in my last > system. Used the VESA driver to get it to work, and could never get the > bttv system running. Since my last email, I've been checking out a Dell > Inspiron that's being sold for $600 with Ubuntoo pre-installed. I can > see that it's a Core-2 Duo, and has an 80G hard drive, and that's about > it until I can call their 800 number and find out more. The details > page on the thing wasn't coming up. I wouldn't know a line across the > screen if it came up and slapped me in the face, so...anyway, if X11 > starts, it won't matter if the screen displays anything. <grins> I've > been hearing abourt NVidia cards. Thanks for the additional reminder. I > may just break down and get the dell if it has a serial port. Thank you > for the info, > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1147 - Release Date: > 11/23/2007 9:19 AM >
