<div>On 10/4/06, Per Bothner <<a href="mailto:per@bothner.com">per@bothner.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Justin Conover wrote: > I'm thinking of getting a Dell e1405 with the intel card, just wondering > how well it works. Are the 1390 wireless opensource drivers too? I'm using a Dell e1405 (with the 1440x900 monitor) and am reasonably happy with it. I have had regular crashes of Firefox and Thunderbird. (It is possible that I've misconfigured xorg.conf, so I'm trying now with a simpler and cleaner xorg.conf.) There are a few annoyances. I haven't gotten dual-screen (using the laptop screen plus an external monitor) working, though the man page suggests it might be possible. (This worked on my previous Compaq laptop, using nvidia's closed-source driver.) Worse, switching between external and internal monitor doesn't usefully work, at least if I want to make use of the full resolution of both. I.e. if I'm working on my desk using the external monitor, I can't take the laptop into the living room without shutting down X. (I have considered trying either vnc or freenx to alleviate this problem, though I don't believe either of them supports virtual screen resizing. The idea is to run all applications on a 1600x1200 vnc or freenx server, on the same machine. Then I'd start up 1600x1200 or 1440x900 client depending on whether I'm at my desk or not. Anyone have such a set-up working?) Both pm-hibernate and pm-suspend seem to work in the latest pre-FC6, at least from the command line, and using Ethernet rather than WiFi. (I've mostly been using Ethernet, since the WiFi requires some more complicated installation, which is a hassle when doing frequent kernel updates.) -- --Per Bothner <a href="mailto:per@bothner.com">per@bothner.com</a> <a href="http://per.bothner.com/">http://per.bothner.com/</a> </blockquote></div> Thanks for the info, I just got an E1505 with x1400 (ati) and not so sure I'm going to like an ati card and linux. I was curious about size too and wondering if the 14.1 is a lot smaller than the 15.4 or just a tad bit. I know I could do the math, but visually makes a difference sometimes :)