Notebooks and Distros

[Josh]

would a dell inspirn 1501 work ok with jaws? 

Josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Keenan" <tkeenan79 at gmail.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Notebooks and Distros


> On Feisty, I didn't even get to any kind of environment.  The CD only 
> spun for about 5 seconds after I selected Orca on the boot options 
> screen and continued booting.
> On Edgy, it actually booted almost completely, but apparently it 
> couldn't start x-Windows.  It said something like "unable to start 
> x-server.  Gnome is possibly misconfigured." then something about video.
> My system uses a Ge-Force 8400 chip which is fairly new, that's probably 
> why.
> Right now, barring some new info about this laptop, it's looking like I 
> might go with a Dell Inspiron 1501, which is the type with an AMD chip.  
> I've been reading on linux-laptops.net that it works well.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Heim wrote:
>> So just to be clear, you tried to boot from the ubuntu live CD and 
>> tried to get it to run orca? One thing you might try is to see if it 
>> will boot without speech. You can start speech after it boots into 
>> graphics mode. I don't know the exact key sequence but it's on the 
>> ubuntu web site. It's something like F2 to open a  run-command window, 
>> type'gnome-terminal', that opens a command window. Then you type 'su 
>> -' to become root. Then you run orca by typeing 'orca'.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Keenan" <tkeenan79 at gmail.com>
>> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:04 AM
>> Subject: Notebooks and Distros
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> First off, if there's a better spot to ask this, please let me know.
>>>
>>> I just tried to install the Ubuntu Feisty Live CD without sighted 
>>> assistance on my Asus notebook.
>>> I got a few seconds passed the accessibility selection and it stopped 
>>> cold.  Someone told me the screen was completely blank.
>>> Hah, did I hink that was going to be easy?  Apparently Ubuntu doesn't 
>>> work well with Asus notebooks, especially the sound.
>>>   Does anyone know of notebooks that work particularly well with a 
>>> certain flavor of Linux, preferably one that's not too cumbersome to 
>>> set up?
>>>
>>>  I just bought this notebook a week ago, so it's not too late to 
>>> return it.  Of course, I'd rather keep it if possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks, all.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>>
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