[tlinux-users:07651] Re: An OS for my laptop

You could think of installing Gentoo, whick works great on mine. That's to say 
i think with a little bit of effort, all distros would work fine on a 
Satellite L10. There exists all the necessary drivers. My problem ( the only 
one left to be resolved ) is the glx and hibernate conflict. 



On Thursday 02 February 2006 10:45, ahmet_bagatur wrote:
> Per 02 Şub 2006 00:36 tarihinde, John T şunları yazmıştı:
> >  I have a Toshiba L10-202 laptop with a Celeron M processor, 256 DDRAM
> > and a 40 GB HDD(no wireless card). This laptop comes with Microsoft
> > Windows XP HE SP2 installed. Although this system has a great support for
> > my hardware because of all the Toshiba drivers, I don't like its
> > instability and the fact that when it completes loading (with Norton
> > Internet Security) it uses more that 200 MB of RAM. I am using Slackware
> > Linux for a few years (which is installed on my home computer) so I am
> > used to use tools like gcc, make, java, OpenOffice ... I need a
> > replacement for windows on my laptop. My laptop has a Phoenix BIOS and a
> > buggy DSDT so I have no info about the ac adapter or battery but I can
> > see the orange led blinking when the battery level is too low. Until now
> > I tried SUSE 10 and it worked great(only some problems with the modem). I
> > also tried a live Ubuntu cd. It is nice but I only have a 56k modem
> > connection so I can't download big programs from the Internet(I like SUSE
> > b! ecause I
> >  can find all the software I need on its 5 Cd's). I also considered on
> > FreeBSD (Someone told me that FreeBSD has the Smart Battery system
> > included in the kernel!?) but I am afraid of hardware compatibility
> > problems. I saw good reviews for Solaris 10 but this is a system build
> > for servers, not laptops. I want to choose an operating system to use for
> > several years(that's because I don't think I will make hardware upgrades
> > to this laptop). I need it for editing text, programming in C/C++ Java
> > and PHP, surfing on the Internet... What operating system do you
> > recommend me to use on my laptop that would have good compatibility with
> > my hardware, stability and enough additional software. Thanks!
>
> Hi John T,
> I have Toshiba satellite L10-102 on mandriva 2006 power pack
> In fact any distribution not suport smart battery system just yet.(I know
> so) I can get battery and ac-adaptor status and settings from a patch to
> kernel and rebuild kernel.
> This patch is there : http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~ferdy/l10.html
> all files and ways there are.
> Thats why,
> I want to thank to Rich Townsend <[email protected]> and Bruno Ducrot
> for acpi-sbs patch.

	

	
		
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