[KLUG Members] laptop

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:13:25 -0400 (EDT)


> I am interested in buying a laptop for which I want to install linux
>on. Does anyone know of any problems with putting linux on a laptop with
>a celeron or AMD processor?

The processor is really irrelevant.  The important issues are the video
chipset and the audio chipset,  virtually everything else is supported by
default.  The built in modem on laptops will NOT work about 99% of the
time as on almost all current units this is a winmodem (DSP).

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