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treehugger
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| i've got a toshiba 2775xdvd and have a no problems getting everything working in both debian and gentoo. it's a couple of years old now and still no problems... probably could find one cheap if someone was willing to let go of it. |
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hook
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i was thinking of a gericom a2, since i'd like my (first) laptop to be pretty thin and have a long-life battery (a2 has a transmeta processor).
i can't find it at www.linux-laptops.com, but googling shows some mailing lists concerning it ...so i'm pretty optimistic about :]
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cdunham
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| AutoBot wrote: | | I can tell you the easiest thing to do when looking to buy a laptop your wish to run linux on, download and burn knoppix, take it to your local computer store, pop the disk in, reboot the laptop and see what happens. |
Heh - also sounds like a good viral marketing plan for Linux, or maybe something for a flash mob. Worth the cost of a few CD-Rs 
To the people that suggested Sager - the configurators on their Web site don't seem to have a "no OS [deduct $100]" option. Do you have to ask for it "manually", and do you really get a discount for not getting Windows?
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someguy
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i agree with masseya ive had good experiences with compaq laptops (even though there desktops are shameful) there laptops seem to like linux in my experience
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MasquedAvenger
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Anyone know of laptops that support hardware mixing for sound? Arts is delayed, I can't get esd to work, and I've heard that alsa supports software mixing at the driver level but have not figured out how to get it to work. If anyone knows:
a) how to get alsa to support software mixing at the driver level
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b) if there are any well-supported laptops out there with hardware mixing, please respond!
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sputnik1969
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| MasquedAvenger wrote: | a) how to get alsa to support software mixing at the driver level
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Have a look at this: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
Good luck
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Rav3n
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Asus laptop running gentoo, anyone has it?
cuz' i'm gonna buy one of those, i hope 
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