Re: New Dell Latitude for linux

From	Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc, uk.d-i-y
Subject	Re: New Dell Latitude for linux
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.misc
Date	2014-09-03 03:01 +0000
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On 2014-09-02, ray carter <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:42:11 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:
>
>> [uk.d-i-y because there are just as many people there who might have an
>> opinion on this]
>> 
>> 
>> What would you choose:
>> 
>> Dell E6440, i5-5310M with Radeon HD8690M graphics but only 802.11a/b/g/n
>> WIFI
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> Dell E7740, i5-4310U with Intel HD 4400 Haswell graphics with
>> 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WIFI
>> 
>> 
>
> My preference would be the Intel graphics machine. The Intel graphics is 
> very well supported.

However, be a little cautious with very new hardware, because it
is possible your favorite distribution might not have released a
version of kernel and Xorg that support the latest hardware.

For example, I just put a Haswell i5-4690 in an Asus H97M-Plus
motherboard and tried to run Tinycore 5.x on it.  After a little
searching, I found an X server in the Tinycore TCZs that works
with both monitors (as long as I don't map the low-res monitor
exactly on top of the VLC video window).  However, the 3.8.13
kernel won't drive the on-board audio or on-board NIC.  (Yes, the
audio and NIC are related to the board rather than the CPU.)

HTH

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 18:42 +0100
  Re: New Dell Latitude for linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-02 19:03 +0100
  Re: New Dell Latitude for linux ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2014-09-02 19:22 +0000
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 21:04 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 09:00 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 10:19 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-09-02 15:09 -0500
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-09-02 21:20 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 21:37 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-09-03 03:01 +0000
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 08:35 +0100
  Re: New Dell Latitude for linux chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 21:21 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 21:52 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 08:57 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 10:17 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 17:27 +0100
          Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2014-09-04 12:58 +0100
            Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-04 13:04 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> - 2014-09-03 08:36 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 08:46 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> - 2014-09-03 12:13 +0100
          Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2014-09-03 12:35 +0100

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