[SATLUG] which laptop to buy?

[matt hutchinson]

oh, dear.  i just came back from dinner and found that my request turned into 
a sex-and-the-city-type argument (dont tell me what happens if youre 
watching-- i missed yesterday's).  everyone wants to be heard and is entitled 
to be.  but please dont get upset over my problems!

as for the mac, it was my first choice.  ive used osx and like the command 
prompt.  but the fact remains that they are WAY too expensive.  also my fat 
hands wont fit on the ibook's tiny cellular phone-sized keyboard.  it just 
wont work for me since i dont have $3500 to spend on the powerbook g4. :(

and i _did_ actually get rh to install.  several hours of google searching 
yielded the "linux pci=off" option for a completely different compaq model.  
i just wish the guy at redhat could have told me.  but after it loaded i 
booted from a diskette and the kernel panicked.  then i booted with "linux 
nomce."  it booted but then kept spitting out errors about the / partition.  
so now im reinstalling after repartitioning the hd.

wish me luck!!


On Monday 05 August 2002 18:19, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 17:44, Todd wrote:
> > So take your stinking
> > WINTEL machine and go back to the hole you came from!!
>
> Apologies to the list, but I couldn't let this one go.  I took a nice
> little peek at your mail headers and saw this:
>
> User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006
>
> That's SO cute! :)
>
>
> And, to Sondy, re: the i830m chip - are you using Debian on it?  Because
> 24-bit color isn't possible with the standard debs (well, above 640x480
> ... at least, from my travails).  I've submitted a patch to Branden (the
> X guy) and got my own working debs (if you want them).  I had to apply a
> patch that allowed me to enable all the VRAM on the chip (some V_BIOS
> error/stupidity).  You can see my communications on the debian-x mailing
> list.  But, if you got it working with standard debs for any Debian
> branch, do tell :)

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