linux-on-laptops.com — Anyone who's ever had the notion to put Linux on their laptop would do well to check out the aptly titled site Linux on Laptops, a good resource for (you guessed it) laptops and Linux. (via Lifehacker)
Nov 11, 2006 View in Crawl 4
mcflynnthmNov 12, 2006
This site has helped me a number of times. Dugg.
encognitoNov 12, 2006
Not to bash *nix but the following is why the average user, hell even a power user, won't switch to *nix. Installing drivers for a vid card should never be this difficult:NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 UltraFirst download the driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run) from NVidia's website (<a class="user" href="http://nvidia.com/)">http://nvidia.com/)</a> [Note: If you know a better way on how to terminate the X-server without it re-starting, do that and skip to STEP 3, otherwise follow the instruction here!] [Note 2: Check <a class="user" href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71711&highlight=NVIDIA">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71711&highlight=NVIDIA</a> for alternative ways on restarting the X-server!] Next, stop the X-server (I figure there are multiple ways of doing this - but what you can do is reboot and wait until you get to the GRUB configuration screen). If you password protected grub, press 'p' and enter it. Otherwise, simply highlight Fedora and press 'e'. Highlight the line that says kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.x ro (...) and add '3' at the end of that line. It should read something like kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.x ro root=/ (...) 3. Press enter to accept the changes and press 'b' to boot into run-level 3. Next, become SUPER USER and change into the folder you saved the NVIDIA driver:$ su - $ cd [directory where NVIDIA driver resides] Then run the installation script:$ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run Edit your xorg.conf file after making a backup, which can be found in: /etc/X11/xorg.conf:$ vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf # NOTE: You can replace vi with emacs, gedit or any other editor! Make your xorg.conf file look like the following sample xorg.conf file: (NOTE: In particular, look at the text in red, it most likely ought to be replaced (i.e. "modes", "monitor", "device" and "screen". And make sure to look at the comment for "module")--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Section "Files"# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally# no need to change the default.# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of# the X server to render fonts.
hrdcregmer808Nov 12, 2006
i like to run a live cd off my laptop its pretty fun...
absolut1983Nov 12, 2006
It is a great site.Thanks to it I could install Slackware on a Toshiba Satellite 225CDS, a Pentium 100 with 32 MB.Miracles powered by Linux.
encognitoNov 12, 2006
@ vuke69,You just proved my point, the average user doesn't know what "#sudo..." even means much less when, where and how to use it. It is easy to you (and me) because of your *nix experience. This *nix experience includes several different ways to do the same thing some that work and some that don't. And when you throw in all the different distributions, all hell can break loose. Like I said before I am not trying to bash *nix but only a fanboi would say installing, configuring and using *nix is easier than windows. Remember Occam's Razor-"If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices."
somerandomnerdNov 13, 2006
Fancy posting a guide to installing the Windows drivers for a fair comparison?
Closed AccountNov 14, 2006
Ubuntu is the only flavor that I have had absolutely no problem with on the laptops. Suse is one of the worst.