On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Robin Atwood wrote

> I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if
> anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all
> the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned
> about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of
> lesser concern. Currently I have a "Linux Certified" machine but I
> want to avoid shipping costs to the UK.

 That would require the install CD to be psychic.  I got an Acer Aspire
working under Gentoo after "an excellent adventure".  See thread...
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/238950  I think that
with Gentoo the problem is knowing which drivers to use.  The only
problem is to avoid machines with "Poulsbo" video chips at all costs.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>