I've installed suse 9.1 successfully on a dell m60 laptop and got everything working (wireless, nvidia graphics, dvd etc.). I'm pretty happy with it so far. I have two additional goals:


1) I'm am looking to reduce the time for the system to boot when I turn it on. I have a default standalone installation and there are lots of services that get loaded when the system starts - so it takes about twice as long to bool as windows. Any obvious things that I will not need that can be easily turned off. ? I can't need all these things.

2) Has anyone gotten the suspend mode working when the laptop lid is closed on this model.

-Kevin

To reduce the time loading your os, just get rid of the services you don't need. I have reduced FC2 loading to under 50 sec from GRUB, which is a record for me.

what are some of the services I can get rid of for a standalone laptop configuration and how do I prevent them from being loaded and started ?

Depends on what you are using. Go to service settings. In RH9 it is under System settings--> Server settings --> Services.

In SUSE, I don't know, you will have to search a little. See what is running and post here.

go into yast and then go into services

'and follow the easy on screen instructions!'

You save around 10 seconds by not using kde. Mine boots in about 30 seconds.

is there a way to make bios check stop or to config the kernel to fastboot before init ?

if your using lilo you can and compact to the lilo.conf file, there's a warning though, that it doesn't work with all computers.