At 03:19 PM 08/01/98 EDT, COREVIPER wrote:
Ok, I am a linux newbie; and love Suse 5.2. I am going to buy a new Gateway laptop. So basically I am going to invest around 3k for the notebook. But I don't want to waste my money, if I can't run Linux. Will I be able to
install
Suse on the laptop, will it support the video card and other hardware. Thanks
I have installed the demo version of 5.2 on my Gateway 2300 solo with the NeoMagic 128 chip. The also have a Infotel (DLINK OEM'd) NE2K compatible PCMCIA NIC. The installation process was smooth including the detection of the NIC and installation of the relevant modules. I have not configured the sound yet. As for a X server, Redhat has a binary only server (XBFNeomagic...) available at their FTP site. It is really nice. If you want X I would suggest, that you find out what graphics chip the GW2K laptops use (most likely they are still using the NeoMagic chip). HTH -- Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e