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authorKarsten Merker <merker@debian.org>2012-09-16 19:02:51 +0000
committerKarsten Merker <merker@debian.org>2012-09-16 19:02:51 +0000
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manual/en/preparing/bios-setup/i386.xml
manual/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml manual/en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml Replaced literal quotes ("") by <quote></quote> tags to ensure proper typesetting. Thanks to Holger Wansing for pointing this out.
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+++ b/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml
@@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ From a technical point of view, laptops are normal PCs, so all information
regarding PC systems applies to laptops as well. Installations
on laptops nowadays usually work out of the box, including things like
automatically suspending the system on closing the lid and laptop specfic
-hardware buttons like those for disabling the wifi interfaces ("airplane
-mode"). Nonetheless sometimes the hardware vendors use specialized or
+hardware buttons like those for disabling the wifi interfaces (<quote>airplane
+mode</quote>). Nonetheless sometimes the hardware vendors use specialized or
proprietary hardware for some laptop-specific functions which
might not be supported. To see if your particular laptop works well
with GNU/Linux, see for example the
@@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ multiprocessing</quote> or SMP &mdash; is available for this
architecture. Having multiple processors in a computer was originally
only an issue for high-end server systems but has become quite common in
recent years even for rather low-end desktop computers and laptops with
-the introduction of so called "multi-core" processors. These contain
-two or more processor units, called "cores", in one physical chip.
+the introduction of so called <quote>multi-core</quote> processors. These contain
+two or more processor units, called <quote>cores</quote>, in one physical chip.
The standard &debian; &release; kernel image has been compiled with SMP support.
It is also usable on non-SMP systems without problems.
@@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ automatically deactivate SMP on uniprocessor systems.
Having multiple processors in a computer was originally
only an issue for high-end server systems but has become quite common in
recent years even for rather low-end desktop computers and laptops with
-the introduction of so called "multi-core" processors. These contain
-two or more processor units, called "cores", in one physical chip.
+the introduction of so called <quote>multi-core</quote> processors. These contain
+two or more processor units, called <quote>cores</quote>, in one physical chip.
</para><para arch="i386">
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ having a graphical display usually works out of the box. Whether
advanced graphics card features such as 3D-hardware acceleration
or hardware-accelerated video are available, depends on the
actual graphics hardware used in the system and in some cases
-on the installation of additional "firmware" images (see <xref
+on the installation of additional <quote>firmware</quote> images (see <xref
linkend="hardware-firmware"/>). In very few cases there have
been reports about hardware on which installation of additional graphics
card firmware was required even for basic graphics support, but