A few months ago, I bought the notebook listed in the Subject. A few days ago, I decided to install Suse 7.1 onto it. Once I found a program that would free up some hard disk space (the unit runs XP HE and NTFS), I really didn't have any problems. The install went fine, but afterwards, I had a hard time getting an X server up and running. Suse's Sax programs didn't get it running and my notebook's manufacturer didn't supply all the necessary data. I didn web searches for the info and came up nil everytime. I ended up using an older Trident driver (the video card is a Trident CyberAlladin-T, which seems to have no support in Linux) and got it running but through a frame buffer device. I cracked open the Suse 7.1 Handbook (page 249, section 8.3.3) and it told me all I needed to know. I'd thought that that info wouldn't have applied to a notebook but I tried it anyways and now I'm running X fine, at 1024x768x16. I thought I'd shared that with the list since I had such a hard time finding info on the web...now it'll be archived! :o) Next, I have a question regarding the sound card in this unit and support in Linux. The sound card is an ALi M1535. The notebook manual states it's compatible with the Soundblaster Pro. Does this mean I can use the kernel module for the Soundblaster Pro while in Linux? ALSA isn't helping to configure this card...it detects it, but that's about it. So, I wiped out ALSA and will go with OSS, as I did with all my Suse boxes...ALSA is $h*t, IMO...I've NEVER gotten it to work, no matter the machine. I've tried to use ALSA in four different boxes with four different motherboards and 4 different sound cards, with ZERO results. The boxed kernel doesn't support the ALi M1535 sound card. I tried to build my own kernel and compile support into the homegrown kernel but for some reason, 'make xconfig' isn't working (and neither is 'make menuconfig' or 'make config'). Per the Suse Handbook, everything's in place (all the kernel-building packages, that is), but the 'make' commands still won't work. Strange... So, I put out a bit of info for the Suse archives for any potential Toshiba 1800 series owners and I'm also asking for a bit of help or experience with the above soundcard. Regards, Ron Sinclair @ -=[ http://www.wigglit.com ]=-