OT: UNIX on Windows

[William James McEachran]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:51:17AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> 
> Okay, let me ask this...how -do- you get around laptop "mice" like touchpads
> that are the touchpad type and apparently require special drivers?  They
> don't work as a "regular" mouse under 'doze.  (I'm thinking of my Digital
> HiNote VP for example.)

I dual boot on the laptop using grub.
As far as the touchpads go, I found that RedHat and Fedora (ver?) 
autodetected and "did the right thing" with the touchpad. 
With Suse 9.1 I had to follow some instructions on the Suse web page.

I've found Linux runs nicely on the laptops .... even the battery/power
management utilities work nicely.  The only fight I had was with my
wireless card which was beaten into submission with ndiswrapper.
  
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Bill McEachran