I just got myself a shiny new acer laptop.....
Now trying to get everything working under linux....
The major annoyance is that none of the dstributions right now suport
both SATA drive _and_ i915 graphics card on board....
Ubuntu fails with SATA cdrom and does not detect it in install, so
does mandrake
Knoppix installs well but fails to detect i915 and XF86Config-4 does
not help even with the kernel driver loaded .... :-(( so i am stuck
with Vesa mode
Will try gentoo now that being the last option, i really don't want
Redhat based Fedora, cause as everyone knows, Redhat is crap. Sigh !!!
Note: Wifi, ethernet, sound and acpi are working on knoppix
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very interesting. i have the same laptop but different problems.
Fedora core3 ( 2.4 kernel ) installs with no probs at all
Fedora core4 ( 2.6 kernel ) also installs with no probs but sound is not detected in KDE. ( works in fluxbox on same kernel )
debian sarge installs badly ( not working )
Gentoo's 60mb live cd gives me console but i dont know the commands :P
Knoppix 3.9 booted ok, but had no sound
Knoppix 4.02 does not booot. :(
Ubuntu does not see the CD ( my CD is not SATA )
Gonna try Debian Woody now :P
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