From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ed0xb-0005Yl-W2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:47:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAI7kAWL021936; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:46:10 GMT Received: from mail.magrittesystems.com (adsl-64-173-154-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.173.154.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAI7k9DD017548 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:46:10 GMT Received: by mail.magrittesystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6C1073C0078; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.magrittesystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578453C0077 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:45:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:45:15 -0800 (PST) From: michael@michaelshiloh.com X-X-Sender: michael@mail.magrittesystems.com To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Laptop Advise In-Reply-To: <200511171657.11897.bss03@volumehost.com> Message-ID: References: <1132251900.11389.257.camel@localhost> <2afd0d230511171137l10cb4828oaa4efc6675205e2b@mail.gmail.com> <437CF80E.8070806@telefonica.net> <200511171657.11897.bss03@volumehost.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: e21ed40c-9481-44e0-a88e-4d4fadd4f1d8 X-Archives-Hash: c7d2645955374cdf6ac7a5894f1ce870 Not sure I'd do it, but I read somewhere that the walmart computer supports gentoo well. was it on this mailinglist? it's under $500 and runs linspire, so it's 90% (or whatever) of the way there. http://media.linspire.com/walmart/ On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 04:37 pm, puskas wrote: >> I have a Dell Latitude D600 and it's entirely supported. > > My D610 also seems well supported, although I have yet to enable (or > require) the accelerated 3D. > > Network card: tg3 > Wireless card: ndiswrapper > Video: ati-drivers (frglx) > Audio: Intel AC'97 (intel8x0) > Bluetooth looks like it works but I don't use it. > PCMCIA looks like it works but I don't use it. (yenta_socket) > All 3 pointers work, at the same time in X. > Had a few problems playing the one DVD I tried, but I could read all the > files on the disk fine. > Battery seems to last longer in linux than windows, when using the > conservative governor. > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > bss03@volumehost.com > -- > gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list