[ILUG] Linux on laptop

Michael Treacy delphi91 at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 27 19:21:07 GMT 2000


>From: Lars Hecking <lhecking at nmrc.ucc.ie>
>To: ilug at linux.ie
>Subject: [ILUG] Linux on laptop
>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:12:24 +0000
>
>
>  A local user here wants to buy a (not further specified) AST laptop,
>  1996 or 1997 model and put Redhat on it. I went through the ilug list
>  archive, but couldn't find anything relating to AST. Has anyone here
>  installed Linux on such a beast?
>
>  My biggest worry was support for X, but that should be ok according
>  the XFree86 web site (it uses some Cirrus Logic GD754x chip). And I
>  guess that, considering its age, all hardware should be supported
>  (CD-ROM, floppy, PCMCIA etc).
>
>
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Lars,

Try here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

It's a mine of info.

Mike

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