[lug] Laptop recommendations

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:28, Andrew R. Diederich wrote:
> I like my IBM A22m (work's laptop).  It runs win2k fine, I've put recent
> Krud on it, too.  I loaded SuSE 8.0 on it for fun this weekend, and I have
> X problems -- the top 1" of the screen is at the bottom, but the mouse
> cursor is in the right place.  Weird.


Have you checked out:  http://www.linux-laptop.net/

Which graphics chipset does your A22m have?  Its probably a Rage128
Mobility series.  And I'll bet you a double latte that I can get X
working correctly on it with a recent Red Hat or Krud install.  ;-)

Ed

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