nice notebook for Linux

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

We just sold an Acer Aspire 1710 notebook to a client.  Just for fun,
I booted up Knoppix on it to take a look at the hardware.  It actually
looks like it might not be a bad notebook, if you don't mind lugging
around a beast with a 17" LCD.  :-)

If any of you are interested, lspci lists the following:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
03:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)

glxinfo says direct rendering is working out of the box even.

All I need to do is figure out if you can get this thing without
Windows...

Steve
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