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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H33lV-0005CV-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:06:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l06539gI012295; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:03:09 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0650Q4V028729 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:00:27 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC689643E2 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:00:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.376 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.376 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.223, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TgzuGw4H6glX for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85478645AE for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H33f5-0004hG-Lv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:00:07 +0100 Received: from wsip-70-183-113-24.no.no.cox.net ([70.183.113.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:00:07 +0100 Received: from boxcars by wsip-70-183-113-24.no.no.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:00:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux? Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:49:48 -0600 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <20070105124632.BAF6CBA2DB4A9@smtp.trashmail.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wsip-70-183-113-24.no.no.cox.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b3381e71-5624-4547-ab8a-c44f78a095ea X-Archives-Hash: abd86223c26cd14d7450c6a561c3e913 qfpvajdy 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list