[PLUG] New Laptop
plug_0 at goose.robinson-west.com
plug_0 at goose.robinson-west.com
Fri Jun 11 23:04:02 UTC 2004
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Steve Beattie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:02:13PM -0700, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> > I wanted something I could game with, so I got a Dell 5100 (spent around
> > $1100 on EBay for a brand new machine), but you may be more comfortable
> > with a ThinkPad.
>
> Unfortunately, try as I might, I could not get the year-old 5100 I was
> using to suspend to RAM with the 2.6 kernel. My boss has a new IBM T41
> (might be a T40), and suspend to RAM works just peachy, as it does on
> the Toshiba M35-S359 I'm typing this on (more drawbacks to this machine,
> I don't recommend it, but it was available when we laid off a salesdroid).
My 5100 is just a term old. Redhat 9 on it
had problems locking up occasionally running
X. Gentoo isn't locking up, but I don't know
how to get maple 9.02 working fully. I'm
checking out gentoo primarily as a replacement
Linux distro for Redhat 9 to run maple and
prolog. If only I knew which libraries to
emerge in gentoo to get the graphical version
running. Command line maple seems to work
okay in gentoo. I didn't get maple to install
directly to gentoo, I tarred up an installation
from Redhat 9. All the maple files are in my
home directory, but where maple expects to find
libraries on my gentoo system could be a problem.
Michael C. Robinson
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