Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[arunkhan@xxxxxxxx (Arun K. Khan)]

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
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