[SATLUG] which laptop to buy?

[matt hutchinson]

Mr. Philip Morales has been helping me using rh's ticket system.  but it 
takes about a day to get a response and by the time i get it ive already 
tried what he recommends.

this time i used ext2 for the install because i read that it doesn't keep the 
disks active.  but now when i boot it hangs at the usb-ohci thing.  i tried 
"i" for the interactive startup but that doesnt give me an option to bypass 
the usb thing.

during the previous installation i had ext3.  the machine booted ok but then 
froze when i started x.  x came up but then i went to the console and got all 
those nasty hd errors.

if i did get a satelite it would be the 2400.  thats the only one they carry.

thanks a bunch,
matt

On Monday 05 August 2002 19:22, you wrote:
> Who did you speak to at RedHat?  I want to know who to make fun of in my
> IRC conversation ;-)...  seriously if you want to talk to their developers
> go to irc.openprojects.net and join #redhat.  A good number of the poeple
> on there work for redhat and they should be able to help.
>
> Remember we can offer help here to, what exactly isn't working?
>
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, matt hutchinson wrote:
> > 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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