laptop question

[Brian Kelsay]

Rick Franklin wrote:

> SUSE 9.0 does not appear to be as user friendly on the laptop as it is 
> on the desktop, where there are still a few minor problems with minor 
> applications.
>
> On the laptop (Toshiba Tecra / Pent. 600 / 256 RAM), there is a 1 1/2" 
> black border around the viewable display, and the speakers play 
> static. Have played with display properties and tried to enlarge the 
> display in Sax ... no budge. PCMCIA well supported. A few other minor 
> irritations.
>
> Google led to a few pages and posts where Mandrake and Red Hat were 
> touted as having better laptop support.  One Mandrake page listed this 
> model as supported.
>
> Any thoughts on best distro(s) for laptops? Life is okay on the WIN 98 
> side ... just looking for justification to make this unit all Linux. 

You may have to combine instructions you find from several sources to 
get everything configured as I have.  There is no guarantee that any 
distro is the best at everything.  I wish they would all get together on 
supporting all the old hardware.  Have to admit though that Redhat has 
been pretty good w/ autodetection.  You might try Knoppix or Morphix 
(Debian underneath) as a bootable CD on your laptop and see how it 
does.  I'm using Morphix and and it's pretty good.  I just got my 
wireless card working and next need to work on Sound.  Tuesday I'm going 
to try to get a USB webcam going on it.   This is an old laptop (233) 
that doesn't have very much info out about it.  Good Luck.

Brian
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