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I haven't tried the composite video out or the internal modem. The graphics supposedly supports OpenGL, but I haven't tried this either. The audio is also supposedly 3D-accelerated, but I have no idea what that means, and I haven't checked it out.

Sound, BIOS hibernate, PCMCIA, USB and apm work flawlessly. There are utilities available to control the fan, screen brightness and set BIOS passwords. I haven't used the 2.6 kernel, and so haven't tried CPU frequency scaling.

The graphics work well in both framebuffer mode and with the native XFree86 drivers with one exception. When switching from X to console and back again, the X screen is irrevocably dim. The only way to remedy this that I have found is to restart the X server.

nosoup4u

I had this laptop, but sold it about 9 months ago. The only linux distro I used with it was Red Hat. The OSS Sound drivers did not work well, however the Alsa drivers worked fine.

cucolin@

No problems at all installing Red Hat 8. As usual the winmodem is not compatible and some games make the system to freeze.

TheOtaku

Still having probelems configuring it to work with D-Link DFE-690TXD PCI Ethernet card

2mcm

Only problem i really had was sound which was fixing with a alsaconf.

eveything else was fine though.

Oh and frame buffer wont work if theres a gui running.

JunctaJuvant

First I tried Slackware 10.0 and compiled the 2.4.26 kernel. I got almost everything working just fine, the Linksys WPC11 v3 card gave me minor difficulties. The soundcard however gave me too much trouble. No luck with alsaconf or even manually adding the BIOS settings in /etc/modules.conf
So then I decided to install the free SuSE 9.1 personal version from CDROM because the network installation program froze (using Xircom 10/100 pcmcia creditcard ethernet adapter). Near the end of the installation you must probe for the soundcard and select the Yamaha card it detects. After installation you find that many programs are missing (mozilla,pine,mutt,gcc to name but a few) and you only get KDE. Fortunately this is no problem. First I updated the system with YaST, then I changed the installation source to ftp, entered the SuSE ftp server (any mirror should work) and the directory /pub/suse/i386/9.1, disabled the CDROM source and enabled the FTP source. Next I started the "Install and Remove Software" program in YaST and waited for it to compile the list of programs (this took some time). Finally you just select the programs you want, do a dependency check and download/install everything you need.


JJ

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While using Slackware 10 I compiled my own 2.4.26 kernel from the included sources. Compiling your own kernel apparantly causes the ALSA drivers to be removed. Re-installing the ALSA drivers, executing alsaconf and allowing it to reconfigure /etc/modules.conf with the settings it probed, solved the problem.
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niwde

I have had this machine for about 10 months running on windows 2000 when i decided to install Suse on it, as a complete newbee. First in dual boot, but that left me with little usable harddrive space. Now it runs perfectly stable on Suse 9.1 only. Upgraded the personal edition by adding an ftp server to my Yast-sources.
There are 2 issues that plague(d) me during install:
one was the audio. selecting a slightly different type of sound card in the hardware profiles fixed it. older type than is actually in the machine.. anyways i looked it up somewhere on the internet and then forgot about it.
the other issue is my external toshiba floppy drive. during my first dual-boot install it was detected flawlessly. by changing it into a single boot (by reinstalling completely) i forgot to plug it in. i didnt get it to work ever since. since i hardly ever used floppies it doesn't bother me too much though.