Dag

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Laptop works near-perfectly with Fedora Core 2. The only thing that doesn't work immediately post-install is hardware 3D acceleration support - I still haven't been able to get that working, but that's probably due to my lack of Linux experience.

Also seems to work fine dual booting with Windows, I've installed several different distributions (one at a time, mind you) and never had problems booting Windows. My Windows partition was always before my Linux partition on the hard drive.

By the way: I should've mentioned this in the product listing, but it slipped my mind and I can't seem to edit it (if that's even possible) - the hard drive is 40gb, and the laptop has 256mb ram (between 16 and 64mb of that is shared with the graphics card, you can set this in the BIOS).

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In terms of other distributions, support was not as promising.

- Mandrake 10 worked fine without ACPI support, but after compiling in ACPI, it would hang on boot around "Spurrious IRQ interrupt." This might be fixable by someone with more experience - I think it's mostly a matter of messing around with the configurations. Also, Mandrake seemed to have some problems when compiling large things - for example, the computer completely crashed without warning several times when recompiling the kernel. I was able to fix this by lowering the RAM shared with the graphics card in the BIOS.
- I couldn't get Knoppix to boot.
- Slackware installed fine, but did not boot.
- Debian installed fine and worked for the most part, but X wouldn't start. This may have been due to a misconfiguration on my part.
- MEPIS wouldn't boot.