[Wylug-help] linux and laptops

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, James Holden wrote:

> I'm unsure of the current state of support for Intel Centrino wireless
> stuff.

Not bad at all.  With Fedora Core 4, I just downloaded the firmware, plopped
it in /lib/firmware and the card works perfectly.

> Avoid ATI video chipsets - the proprietary drivers have problems on laptop
> hardware which sometimes differs slightly from PC stuff. You might find
> strange problems with suspend/resume leading to the display not coming back
> up.

I get that with the i915 graphics from Centrino, although you can fix it with
some acpi triggers (just about).

jh

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