pyrojoe
April 25th, 2008, 04:10 PM
I've been looking around for a new laptop for college and the Sager 2092 seems like a good choice. At the same time, I've been toying around with Ubuntu and I absolutely love it. Sadly the Dell monitor that my desktop uses doesn't like Ubuntu all too much, and it keeps on giving blank and saying that it "Cannot display video mode", so I've had to run it in virtualbox.
For the laptop I would get, I'd certainly want to be able to run Ubuntu without any major issues. If this is my goal, would the Sager 2092 be able to fit it? Would it run into the same display issue as my desktop monitor? Any other problems with Ubuntu running on this laptop?
Also, I have been reading up on the Synaptics Touchpad Driver that allows you to use two-finger scrolling and two-finger right-clicking in Ubuntu. From what I have read, it seems like the Sager 2092 uses an Elantech touchpad. Would it be possible for me to overwrite the Elantech drivers with the Synaptics ones and get the same function, or would it be a lost cause?
Any suggestions as to other possible laptops would be greatly appreciated. Note that the reason I like the Sager is because it has a fairly powerful graphics card, is relatively cheap, and comes with no preinstalled software.
Thank you
-Joe
For the laptop I would get, I'd certainly want to be able to run Ubuntu without any major issues. If this is my goal, would the Sager 2092 be able to fit it? Would it run into the same display issue as my desktop monitor? Any other problems with Ubuntu running on this laptop?
Also, I have been reading up on the Synaptics Touchpad Driver that allows you to use two-finger scrolling and two-finger right-clicking in Ubuntu. From what I have read, it seems like the Sager 2092 uses an Elantech touchpad. Would it be possible for me to overwrite the Elantech drivers with the Synaptics ones and get the same function, or would it be a lost cause?
Any suggestions as to other possible laptops would be greatly appreciated. Note that the reason I like the Sager is because it has a fairly powerful graphics card, is relatively cheap, and comes with no preinstalled software.
Thank you
-Joe