laptop list

Forum: Laptops
Topic: laptop list
started by: tuxknight

Posted by tuxknight on April 06 2006,03:43

hi this really isnt a issue but i was wondering if someone could be kind enough to provide me a list of laptops that work 100% with DSL right out of the box. the reason why i ask is because im thinking about getting a cheap older laptop soon and i wanna get one that will work 100% meaning sound works flawlessly along with everything else. i would greatly appreciate it if someone could provide this information

Posted by Da Vince on April 06 2006,08:56

Works: Latitude XPi CD P150ST (sound is not working)
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....950&st >

Posted by doobit on April 06 2006,12:52

The Toshiba Satellite Pro series all seem to work well. I'm using a 480 CDT. I had to configure the sound to use the opl2 drivers, but after that it was great!

Posted by DrWatt on April 06 2006,15:58

HP Omnibook 800CT, 32M RAM, no CD (did HD install from windoze side). Sound card not working, but there are fixes in the forum. 2G HD. On the net posting this with a Hawking 10/100 Cardbus pcmcia nic. Booting with a vga=788 to get good screen video. Others have installed XFree86.

Not exactly out of the box, but about $30 on eBay for a very compact machine with instant on/off where you left it to play with.

Posted by tuxknight on April 06 2006,17:30

thnxs very much for the information all. i will look into getting a toshiba laptop then.

Posted by andrewb on April 06 2006,23:19

Toshiba Libretto 100CT works brilliantly, especially with V2.3 - even the sound works out of the box! Haven't checked out the IR connection though.

Posted by stan_dard on April 07 2006,00:37

My advent 6480 worked fine once i put a working CDROM in it

Posted by roy913 on April 10 2006,02:44

Acer Travelmate 330 (PII 330, 64Mb Ram, 800x600 display)

Posted by torp on April 10 2006,13:14

Toshiba Satellite 2595CDT......runs 100% perfectly on first boot. Well everything except infrared and you could get that going if you wanted.

torp

Posted by 3-R4Z0R on April 10 2006,14:55

Quote (andrewb @ April 06 2006,19:19)

Toshiba Libretto 100CT works brilliantly, especially with V2.3 - even the sound works out of the box! Haven't checked out the IR connection though.

My Compaq LTE5300 works well, just sound doesn't work yet. Need to get it working with a Sound Blaster Pro audio driver. It's just a bit slow because of the VESA drivers for graphics.
It's got 133MHz Pentium, 48MB RAM, Cirrus Logics Graphicscard, CD-ROM, 800x600 pixels.
As network I'm using a standard PCMCIA Crad from Apollo.

I would have installed DSL on my Libretto 100CT if the laptop would work. It's broken. I think the RAM is blown.

GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R

Posted by Guest on April 10 2006,17:28

I runned dsl on Toshiba Satellite Pro 440cdt, and everything else worked except sound which was fixed by doing something, i dont remember.
Now it`s running Debian, the newest i believe because i did network install( three floppy discs!!!!), before debian i tried Slackware 10.2 and 9.0 and 8.1, Vector linux 1.8-5.0 std editions. And all of those worked without any problems and with reasonable speed, even in X.

So i recommend some old Toshibas

Posted by Genesius on April 12 2006,17:16

Quote (DrWatt @ April 06 2006,11:58)

I've got an Omnibook 4000 I'm trying to get working. 32MB, 510 MB HD, trying to get a decent picture but so far nothing's working. Can someone explain "booting with a vga=788"? I'm still kind of a Linux n00b, so sorry if this is a dumb question.

Posted by rukarma2 on April 17 2006,04:49

I have been using a Toshiba and a live cd of 2.2 & 2.3 and the only problem is me...It found all my hardware the cd rom the sound card (Yamaha) the modem(winmodem), the PCMCIA sockets using a network card and dongle to surf and external floppy fd0, the picture on the LCD is great, I used both the fd0 and the sda1 my off the shelf USB pen for backup which either is auto after the first run, as I said seems that I am the weak link... I have been using MS stuff for yrs just started with Linux even though I have a good friend that uses both fluently for yrs he finally got me with this DSL and my 275 dollar Tecra 8100 from eBay. Have fun! An hda1 install is inevitable.
Gasho,
Rukarma2

Posted by green on April 17 2006,14:32

IBM T21 800Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HDD. Ran like a champ out of the box. Sound, video, pcmcia, all works.

IBM T42 1.6Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb HDD. Ran like a champ out of the box. Sound, video, Atheros WiFi, built-in ethernet, all works.

Posted by aleximandro on April 19 2006,07:28

ECS/PC-Chips Model A530 1 Gigapro (632 Mhz)
Transmeta Crusoe CPU 512k L2 Longrun (running like intel x86) no cooling device
Drive Combo 24x slim type
Main memory 256 mb
16mb video (fb/vesa) SiS 315(very sux) i m looking for solution to install XFree SIS + DRI like Thomas Wichofer driver.
Eth0 realtek fast/100 model 8139 works very well
Wi-Fi bilt-in is detected but i dont have access point to use

Hard drive 20 Gb 5400 rpm ultra ATA
LCD 14" XGA Tv-out(Svideo) + CRT/LCD external 15" AOC
Especial Keyboard Keys doest work
4 USB 2.0
2 spk and sound works but mixer is not ok
input jack works
bilt in mic booster signal is not ok
jack output sound is ok
touch pad w/ some problems, but i know the solution.
Ac-link modem (Intel 537) i dont no, so i dont use dial-up.
Performance is great and the system is very very very silent.
In the summer of Brasil (around 40 Celsius) the CPU temp is the most problem!!!