hello frenz........

m planing to buy hp dv2214.............is it everything fine with this in slackware........like graphic card support .....sound card...web cam and all other things........

it has mother board intel 945

Please indicate what you have done to find out for yourself? This affects the quality of your reply.

Is this the lappy in question?

This laptop relies on proprietary chipsets (NV Go 430) and, therefore, is discouraged with any open-source distribution. See what has been discussed in the NV support forum.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en...-78223603.html
this is the exact model that i plan to buy.......i do not have this laptop so i had not tried slackware on it ....but i found on net that everything goes fine with intel and slackware

That is very close to my laptop. I have a DV2000t CTO (configured to order).

I have entered it in the HCL here, and have some info on my web page (http://gruven.googlepages.com).

OK, cool...

CPU T2060
Vid i950 GMA
Aud 3D Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound 16 bit integrated
Wifi 802.11 a/b/g WLAN + bluetooth
Modem High speed 56K modem

The intel stuff is fine... all open source drivers. You may need a compatibility package to get higher than 1024x768 resolution. Use the 2.6 kernel option.

Wifi and modem probably won't go out of the box.
Same with the web cam. However, you should be able to get wired net access and everything else goes... so you should be able to get everything going in the end.

Read that HCL entry
Also, Linux on Laptops lists similar HW dv2215.

If the vendor will let you, try the live disk on a demo model.