[KLUG Hardware] Toshiba 1135-S155 Was "HP ze4220"

[Bill Katsma]

I am looking to get a laptop myself and this thread has helped barrow it
down some.

I am currently looking at Toshiba, Compaq and HP.  The biggest thing that
bothers me about the HP and Compaq is the shared video/system memory.  Any
thoughts on that? Adam, what was youreason to move away from HP?

There is an hp (ze4365) $999
     Mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 2200+ (1.80GHz)
     40GB enhanced IDE, 512MB DDR SDRAM
     15" XGA TFT screen
     24x/8x/8x/8x DVD+CD-RW combo drive
     Integrated 802.11 wireless LAN
      USB 1.0


or Toshiba (2435S225) $1299
Intel Pentium 4 Processor (2.40GHz)
  512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (256MB x 2)
  15" XGA Display (1024 x 768)
  40GB HDD (4200rpm)
  DVD/CD-RW
  Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
  3-USB (2.0) ports
  iLINK (IEEE 1394) port
  Infrared port
  SD media slot


Running Linux on this laptop is VERY important so I have tried to
investigate as much as possible but it is hard to do on some newer laptops.
I am hoping that is a good sign and it is just more common for Linux to
support laptops.

So for you guys that are using Laptops or those that just bought do you have
any advise?

Thank you


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <hardware@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Hardware] Toshiba 1135-S155 Was "HP ze4220"


>
> > >>>I just arrived home with a 1135-S155, it is installing RH9 now.  No
> > >>>problems so far.
> > >>Do you still like it?
> > >Yes, very much so.
> > Have you tried it with the KLUG projector?  Works OK?
> > I wanted to try my wide-aspect display on it last night, but forgot.
> > >>Have you found anything funky?
> > >X has crashed once,  it restarted, the machine did not hang.
> > That's the only thing that has me concerned.  That can become really
> > annoying if it happens very often.
>
> I use it all day as my primary workstation, so I don't think once is too
> bad.  It happened right after logging in and launching IBM Server Studio
> JE (a *MAMMOTH* Java application).  One of the bugs filed against the
> 1.4.1 beta of the jvm for Linux is that it can crash X on certain
> glibcs.  So I'm not certain I even blame the laptop.
>
> > > PCMCIA wireless (using it now) has worked flawlessly as has my USB
cell
> > > phone.
> > Have you tried a 32 bit (cardbus) card?  They didn't work in my Sony,
> > nor do they work in my new Dell.  (The Orinoco is a 16 bit card)
>
> Nope, don't have any of those.
>
> > > Playing DVD's with oogle works well, with only the occassion clip due
> > > again to non-100% DMA support
> > What happens if you set DMA on hda?  Does it trash your filesystem,
> > or just report some error?
>
> A bug prevents you from even enabling DMA via the hdparm option on this
> chipset.  Again, this may be the kernel bug, or the laptop,  only time
> will tell.
>
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