BandiPat wrote:
Anyone using or had experience with the Gateway M520 laptop? How is it with SuSE and does it behave well with a dual boot setup?
Lots of good comments so far... I'll add a couple comments of my own. 1. Check the brand of your video card (nVidia, ATI, on-board) and be prepared with the correct driver. I have an older Gateway 600 with an ATI card. ATI's fglrx driver works fine, but you'll need to have it ready to go. 2. Try out your ethernet connection with the LiveCD. I have a new Dell 9150 with Gigabit ethernet, and the e1000 driver that ships with SuSE 10.0 wouldn't work. I had to get the source from Intel and compile it myself. (Hard to do if you've already installed SuSE 10.0 and don't have a second computer!) 3. If the laptop has a CD drive and not a DVD drive, remember that a number of packages are missing from the install CD set. You'll have to download any of those you need with YaST2. 4. I switched to SuSE from Slackware years ago for its laptop support. Other than a couple of minor glitches, SuSE has always worked well with my hardware. Hope this helps, Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics