[NBLUG/talk] Mandrake 9.1 on a my laptop

[Rob Orsini]

At 01:11 PM 6/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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.

Thanks, that gives me hope.  I'll give it a shot this weekend.