Introduction

Employers rule. Especially if they give you a laptop and allow you to install GNU/Linux on it. Since not everything instantly worked the way I hoped under GNU/Linux, I wrote this document so that other people interested enough in running GNU/Linux on a Satellite Pro 6000 can profit from my findings.

Luckily, I found that most hardware is supported, and even some of the special features of the laptop are, too. Unfortunately, That doesn't mean it all works perfectly well, and even some (very nice) features are not (yet) supported.

If you get something to work in a different and/or better way than me, please be so kind to let me know so that I can include it here (and use it too, of course ;-). Thanks in advance.

Note: Since this laptop is not my personal property, and seen the fact that my employer and I both decided that it would be better that I quit, I no longer have one of these. Therefore, I can no longer check whether something someone sends me is correct before I put it here. I'm not going to remove these pages; however, note that Hereward Cooper took over maintaining this document; you can find his version at http://zadok.org.uk/laptop/.

Which seems to have disappeared (my proxy can't even find the domain anymore). However, while googling for myself (I do that every once in a while), I found a revised version of this document at http://www.spierrel.freesurf.fr/.

Oh, BTW: if you send me some mail that requires my reply, then PLEASE make sure my reply is not bounced by a stupid, dumb, non-functional spamfilter that requires me to waste my time doing stuff I don't need, just so your time isn't wasted by other morons. That would make both our lives easier.

Thanks. You know who you are.

And now... let's get into it.