[lug] Laptop recommendations

[Hugh Brown]

The only drawback I have noticed from the popping back and forth from
the CMOS is that the clock goes weird on me.  When I pop back into
linux, linux thinks that the hwclock is gmt instead of localtime and
goes 4 hrs back in time.


On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 15:37, John Karns wrote:
> On 22 May 2002, Hugh Brown said:
> 
> > I have a Dell 8100 that works nicely.  It has a winmodem that is
> > unsupported but the 15" screen and 1400x1050 is quite nice.  You have to
> > use nVidia's proprietary drivers to get good performance out of the
> > video card.
> 
> One of the features I like is the ability to pop in & out of the CMOS cfg
> while running Linux to view (even edit[!]) the cfg, w/o having to reboot.
> For some not-so-odd reason :), it doesn't seem to be able to that from
> within the other os.
> 
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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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