[Sussex] Linux and laptops

[Colin Tuckley]

Ben Gr0ss wrote:

> Anybody else have experience with linux and laptops?
> I am thinking about attending the moot.

I've just converted by ancient AJP 400MHz laptop from Win98SE to Linux.

It hasn't been without problems although it's been usable from the word go. 
Including getting X and the PCMCIA network card running.

I'm using Debian "sarge" and initially used a default install with a 2.4 
kernel. This had trouble with the USB and so I've moved over to a 2.6 kernel 
which got the USB running.

The remaining problem is getting the sound going, it has a rather 
non-standard ISA soundcard built in which ALSA doesn't seem able to find 
even though I know which chipset it is and have made sure the driver module 
is available.

I'll be at the moot.

Colin

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