From: »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:49:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dcm374-k27.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070105124632.BAF6CBA2DB4A9@smtp.trashmail.net
qfpvajdy <qfpvajdy@trashmail.net> wrote:
> I'm interessted to buy a laptop on which I would like to install
> Gentoo GNU/Linux by using 100% all hardware functions of the laptop
> for which I have bought.
I've just installed Gentoo on a Sony VAIO VGN-FS740, and I recommend
against it. Almost everything in it is well-supported, but one of the
most important things is a PiTA. Sony uses some unusual system to
handle power management, and there are things the drivers available
with the kernel will not handle. Most notably, I could not get control
of LCD brightness without installing a driver which is (a) not in
portage and (b) AFAICT not in most distros' repositories. If someone
hadn't published a portage overlay for it, I would still be struggling
with it. From what I've read (which was a lot more than I wanted to,
this is the situation with most (all?) of Sony's FS models.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-05 12:46 [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux? qfpvajdy
2007-01-05 12:53 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-05 12:53 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2007-01-05 15:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2007-01-05 18:18 ` James
2007-01-05 18:29 ` Cliff Wells
2007-01-05 18:54 ` Shawn Singh
2007-01-06 4:49 ` »Q« [this message]
2007-01-06 18:34 ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2007-01-06 7:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-08 11:41 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-08 17:32 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-08 17:48 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-09 8:40 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-08 22:33 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-10 3:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Christian Marie
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