[Gllug] Need to buy a laptop in next couple of weeks.

[Jasper Wallace]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Justin Perreault wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 18:08 +0000, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Justin Perreault wrote:
> > > In short I need to buy a laptop.
> > 
> > > I am currently searching the web for linux laptops, however I am hoping
> > > someone here has been party to a recent purchase they can recommend.
> > 
> > Although they don't do linux machines specificly, you can buy laptops
> > without an OS from http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ . I can confirm that at
> > least the 15.6" Enigma has beveled keys (tho it's a bit over your budget).
> 
> Looks promising. Would you also confirm what you have installed to it
> and what problems showed up.

I'm running ubuntu 9.04 and netbsd on it, netbsd has some acpi problems but those
are netbsd's fault :)

Ubuntu is fine, the Enigma uses an ATI gfx chip so i'm using the binary ati
driver

> Any chance the fingerprint scanner worked straight away?

I've not tried the fingerprint reader or the TPM, tho the tpm is recognised
by the kernel.

The fingerprint reader is:

  idVendor           0x1c7a LighTuning Technology Inc.
  idProduct          0x0801 


I think the only problem's are:

the volume default to zero (this may be an issue with my strange desktop
setup).

and the backlight dosn't go off when the screen is blanked.

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