[NBLUG/talk] Mandrake 9.1 on a my laptop

[E Frank Ball]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:14:32PM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
} I have a Toshiba 1625CTD laptop wasting valuable resources running 
} WinXP.  I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on another box (not a laptop) for a 
} friend and noticed some laptop support functionality among the menu items 
} (KDE 3.1).  Last time I put Redhat 7.3 on this laptop it couldn't handle 
} closing the lid which I'm guessing is due to some unsupported power 
} management stuff.  Does anyone have any thoughts on how well the new 
} Mandrake might work on this box, or laptops in general?

Mandrake 7 worked like a dream on my laptop.  No power managment
problems at all.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com