On Tuesday 22 February 2011 21:51:43 walt wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >    I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux.
> 
> Congratulations :)
> 
> > Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the
> > answers, and also to "Mr. Google" for helping me find them.  There are
> > several tweaks that are required to get things working...
> 
> Thank you for the excellent write-up.  I still don't have a laptop or a
> notebook just because I expect to suffer a lot of pain before I could
> actually use it for anything, and you've just confirmed my suspicions :)
> 
> By the time I read the last of your 'several' tweaks, my blood pressure
> must have been 250 because I can definitely feel your pain.
> 
> Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks indeed to Walter for providing such a detailed howto - now time to 
repeat in the wiki  ;-)

I don't think that it is particularly painful to get a laptop to work (well, 
most of the time).  You can get a laptop up and running with a full desktop 
within a day or so, but it will of course take longer to troubleshoot pesky 
devices/drivers and bespoke configurations.  That can happen over a period of 
days/weeks when free time is available.  The frustration of course comes when 
you want to use something urgently, which you have not configured yet!  :-))
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Regards,
Mick