Posts by HoofHearted

The 8887 is a big honkin MAN's computer. This works for me. My wife needed real convincing for me to purchase this. Now that I have it, she is jealous when I can surf ebay wireless. So now I can buy her the more girly looking...

Nothing like a little engineered ambiguity to start some forum hype. Sorry. I couldn't resist. The first post did say besides Sager products. Prostar and Alienware are NOT Sager products, but rather "Clevo" product if you...

Yes, Sager and prostar (and even alienware) are repacked Clevo's. You seemed to be looking for choices, I have you the necessary keywords to stick into Google to find your laptop, compare prices, service, hype, etc. As far as me...

Prostar is pretty good. Alienware is a bit pricey but good. Clevo is the absolute best bang for the buck. Other than that, maybe a Toshiba.

Is sound working?

Got wireless working. At work now, so haven't tested it yet, but the MAC is a match. I have an 8887 with mini-pci internal wireless card Followed laclasse's install guide for the most part. uname -r 2.4.21-pre5 .config...

thanks for the reply. Yep just a lil rtfm on my part. man lilo.conf was the best. also the README.common.problems was good too. Wound up needing bios 0x81 in lilo.conf. Warning from lilo cued me in. Now my win bootloader thing...

I am somewhat experienced in installing Linux. RH7.2 on a toshiba 5005-s503 laptop (legacy-free bios ie bios settings in "Control Panel"!?!) . Had JBuilder, Oracle, weblogic 7, wireless net drivers, etc all running...

My ATI driver is version 6292, may that has something to do with it.

Yep, generals crashes for me too.