[tlug] NEC LaVie C Lc60H/5 - Knoppix

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

In looking for information on NEC laptops running Linux, there were a 
number of sites that came up, but most of the data was quite old, so I 
thought I'd document the results of running KNOPPIX on a more recent 
laptop NEC.  It ran fine - but took a while for new applications to load 
from the CD-ROM.


The computer is a:

NEC LaVie C  LC60H/5


The software I tested it with was:

KNOPPIX 3.2 [Jp Ver]


Here are some details from the screen:

Autoconfiguring devices...
Mouse is unknown at /dev/input/mice
Soundcard: ESS Technology IES1988 Allegro-1 driver=maestro3
AGP bridge detected.
Video is Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x, using XFree86(ati) Server
Monitor is Generic Monitor, H:23.0-96.0kHz, V:50.0-76.0Hz
Using Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Scanning for Harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab... Done.
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Automounter started for: floppy cdrom.
Input method started for: freewnn-jserver(ja).
Portmap started.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Executing /etc/init.d/xsession start:


One question is how accurate is the above data likely to be? Does 
Autoconfig pretty accurately sense what's there, or blithely announce 
devices anywhere in the ballpark?

Where it says: Using Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" - does that 
mean any of those are available or that it's using one or the other of 
the settings?


Re: "Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP."

I must say I was impressed that it seemlessly and quickly set up the LAN 
card and put me on the Internet.  After all the trouble I had in the bad 
old days with getting some old machines to recognize the card slots, it 
was a happy discovery that it was no problem!


Re: "Input method started for: freewnn-jserver(ja)."

The Japanese input seemed different from what I've tried on SuSE 9.0.  I 
was able to enter a string of characters and it automatically converted 
the string into the right Kanji.  I've had to mainly enter kanji one at 
a time when I've done it on the S-machine.  Is the input of Japanese 
actually different or am I mistaken?


The next step is to try the "Live-CD" version of SuSe 9.1.  Has anyone 
tried that?

Lyle