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From: JM <jmurray315@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:49:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikfatKRMeugNkx_SsDQbVR62sPsmLxiSQxge4D8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103301931.09419.robin.atwood@attglobal.net>

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My Acer Aspire One worked with very few modifications.

Picked up my wifi card and usb camera (the one in the lid is actually usb),
sound card and intel graphics driver (though I haven't yet tried X, only
framebuffer, but I get framebuffer in 1024 by 768 on it). Touchpad works
fine with gpm mouse driver.

Bit of a cheapo netbook but if flies under gentoo, while it was pretty slow
under windows. dual core intel Atom.

just out of curiosity I also tried the the pixielive cd which runs X for the
intel gma graphics chip and is based on gentoo -  it gave me full native res
with little or now slowdown - I think it uses the poulsbo driver (or some
similar name), overall, installing gentoo was painless - the worst
experience I had was trying to map my windows key to CTRL-A for use in
screen, still haven't managed it!

On 30 March 2011 19:31, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> 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.
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> TIA
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> -Robin
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> from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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> Robin Atwood.
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> "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
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> Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
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> from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-30 18:31 [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"? Robin Atwood
2011-03-30 18:37 ` Davide Carnovale
2011-03-30 18:48   ` skiarxon
2011-03-30 18:49 ` JM [this message]
2011-03-30 19:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-31  0:09 ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-31  4:12 ` kelly hirai
2011-03-31  6:16   ` Kevin Coetzee
2011-03-31 14:15 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2011-03-31 14:57   ` BRM
2011-03-31 18:40     ` Ryan Harris
2011-04-01  6:43 ` Walter Dnes
2011-04-01 10:21   ` Fernando Antunes
2011-04-03 17:12 ` Robin Atwood
2011-04-03 17:28   ` Peter Humphrey
     [not found] <gC8tc-5RI-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-03-30 18:46 ` Elaine C. Sharpe
2011-03-30 22:56   ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-04-02 11:55     ` Zhu Sha Zang
2011-04-03 13:55     ` Kfir Lavi
     [not found] ` <gDz7Y-7oR-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-04-03 17:56   ` Indi

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