Bagleemo

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Cannot hot swap or at least haven't figured out how to hot swap the disk or cd drive (which are separate and connect via a cable) without rebooting. Certain network services seem to fail - NFS for one - and I don't know why that is the case quite yet. Bios often fails to 'sleep' when told to the first time via apm, but always succesfully sleeps when told the second time. Would be really nice to get the touchpad to not respond to accidental touches that cause the cursor to move to the wrong place when typing(some macs can filter this bad input), but there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. Max. ram is 256 Mb. A fine little machine.

orangejon

Everything on this laptop worked fine with both Mandrake and Debian, with no further configuration.

The suspend is generally reliable, although I do tend to unplug the power before suspending and not reinsert it until after it has powered back up, as changing the "power state" does sometimes seem to affect it.

External drives connect via a (proprietary) IDE connector on the side, so reboots are necessary before any drives are recognised.

Cheers,

Jon

canllaith

I purchased this machine second hand as something cheap to knock about with me and my digital camera, rather than worry about the cost of replacing my new notebook if I were to drop it while hiking.

Everything is compatible with linux, although the neomagic video driver leaves a little to be desired. It seems it was a bit of a problem when the notebook first came out, but these days the support is a bit better and it works well enough to do the job. With APM support compiled in as a module, suspend and resume works fine as well as the battery monitor. I have a pcmcia realtek wireless card that works acceptably using ndiswrapper. All in all a great little linux box.

The video card has some glitches and screen artifacts with acceleration set on in 24bit colour. Without acceleration it is unnaceptably slow. For the record, the machine has some problems in 24bit colour under windows as well, so I guess it's the card rather than the drivers. Dropping the colour depth to 16 solved all problems for me.