[lug] hp laptops

Phil Rasch pjr at phaedrus.cgd.ucar.edu
Tue Dec 2 15:32:48 MST 2003


> 
>   2) if you can try out the laptop first (maybe a friend has a 
>      similar machine or a display model at a store) then you 
>      could perhaps (?) bring a copy of Knoppix:
> 
>        http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html
> 
>      and see how well it runs.  Running Knoppix would give you 
>      a pretty good indication of how well supported the major 
>      items (most importantly, the video driver!) are with 
>      open-source drivers.  And there may be proprietary drivers 
>      for some of the hardware (eg. nVidia -- which would not be 
>      included in Knoppix) but its a good and *quick* way to test 
>      things.
> 
> good luck,
> Ed

To clarify Ed's comment, there are nvidia drivers in the recent
versions of the KNOPPIX, but they use the older "nv" driver, rather
than the new "nvidia" driver. The performance will be much worse with
the older driver, but otherwise it may work.

Phil

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