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All the driver support for any given distro is in the kernel, it works a little different then windows... here's the big problems I see:
RedHat 9.0 is about 2+1/2 years old now and originally came with kernel 2.4.20 with NO acpi support, that is the power management standard that this laptop runs off of. From what I can tell that kernel won't support acpi on this machine, which sometimes controls IRQ assignment to stuff like the sound and video card, which means if it even boots the pm for the cpu throttling is going to be way off, and that kernel didn't support the sis chipset onboard so it'll probably eat its filesystem alive after it installs...
This is just some worst case scenario guesswork.
RedHat always thought of laptops last, so hence no acpi support, outdated pcmcia-cs's, goofiness with networking scripts because in a laptop your pulling and plugging networking devices pretty often.
Fedora Core is what RedHat 10 would have been, its pretty user friendly, is a lot more notebook friendly and would probably get the job done. They're about to release Fedora Core 2, Release Candidates are available, and don't let RC status spook you, they're very stable.
Mandrake is the other extremly newbie friendly distro, and they're a little smarter when it comes to laptops.
Cheers,
Finegan
Last edited by finegan; 03-07-2004 at 03:28 PM.
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