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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsThe Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsPosted Jun 3, 2008 18:41 UTC (Tue) by frankie (subscriber, #13593)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops
Casually I use daily exactly the same laptop with Debian sid since years. I use a Cisco Aironet 350 as wifi card and it works like a charm, but I chosed that card exactly for its fine support with any recent kernel. But for that, the external VGA definitively works under Debian: you have only to use the current Xrandr 1.2 support to activate the external VGA after boot, and possibly choose your preferred mode. I solved my ATI issues with beamers since that version.
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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops Posted Jun 5, 2008 12:33 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] Xrandr 1.2 hasn't propagated to testing yet. Debian/testing never was a good choice for laptops. I have been running Debian/unstable since my first laptop (some time around 2002), and even though I usually upgrade it daily I had only one case of major breakage. In this specific case of a ThinkPad laptop, thinkwiki.org is the site to refer to, preferrably before you buy a laptop, so that you can be sure that all your bells and whistles will work with free drivers.
The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops Posted Jun 5, 2008 21:01 UTC (Thu) by jcristau (subscriber, #41237) [Link] > Xrandr 1.2 hasn't propagated to testing yet. It's been in testing since a year (but only for intel hardware until last month).
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