From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moose.erie.net([208.138.204.11]) (4178 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:35:13 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from jslt.jslt.localhost.localdomain (mail@dap-208-1-140-185.erie-tnt-1.pa.erie.net [208.1.140.185]) by moose.erie.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1JLYaF08255 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:34:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from jacobs by jslt.jslt.localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 14UxrL-0005vg-00 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:28:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:28:38 -0500 From: Jacob Schmude <> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: laptops Message-ID: <20010219162838.A22785@jslt> References: <01bc01c09ab9$fdcd6ea0$1f00a8c0@t2x5a2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01bc01c09ab9$fdcd6ea0$1f00a8c0@t2x5a2>; from admin@bmoore.yi.org on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:21:57PM -0500 Sender: Jacob Schmude List-Id: Hi Well I'll try to give as much info as I can. I've got a toshiba satell= ite pro 4340 laptop computer. It's a good system as far as hardware and per= formance goes. Intel pentium III 650MHz processor with 64mb ram. It has a 1= 2GB hard disk. All hardware, even the winmodem, is linux compatible. It has= a built-in floppy and DVD-rom disk. The sound system works fine with the A= LSA drivers, it's a yamaha YMF744 chip. It's multi-channel, too. There are = two type II pcmcia card slots. It has a serial port, a parellel port, an IR= DA port, and a USB port. I've got slackware linux running on it right now. = The modem, a lucent LT winmodem, works well with kernels 2.2 and 2.4 with t= he lucent driver. In full power mode it gives about 3 hours continuous batt= ery life. However, there's no reason to unload their windows that comes wit= h this machine. It's win 98SE and all the drivers are prop[erly set up for = you. You just need to get rid of the desktop wallpaper and theme and any wi= ndows screen reading program will work fine. I just used fips to split the = windows partition and installed linux on the rest of the drive. Speakup on = this system works well! The num-pad, as in most laptops, is used by depress= ing the FN key and then the keys on the right side of the keyboard. Even th= e insert-key combinations are no problem really, but you need to be a bit d= extrous to handle some of them. The only complaint I have about this laptop= is that there's only one control key on the left side of the keyboard. It = would have been nice to have another control key on the right side, but oh = well. On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:21:57PM -0500, Brian Moore wrote: > Greetings all. Okay, finally am breaking down and hunting for a laptop > computer . I want to use this machine to boot both linux and windows. I > suspect windows will have no real problems since I will probably get a > machine with it loaded whether or not I want their windows. However, I h= ave > had bad experiences with other machines in the past which required lots of > drivers and would only work with the OF.a.m version of windows from that > particular laptop company. would like to avoid this if at all possible > since I will probably nuke the disk as the first thing and put a standard > version of win98 se and create a Linux partition running slackware or red= hat > or something like that. would like as little strange hardware as possibl= e. > I really like like the keyboards on the thinkpad computers but they are > pretty costly and i.b.m sometimes has strange hardware configurations at > least on the desktop machines I have worked with. Would be most interest= ed > in people's experience with notebook computers. I don't mind spending a > little more money for a good machine but really want to avoid proprietary > software and sound video chips etc. any thoughts viaprivate mail would be > much appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup