Hi, I also just got a Gateway 2500 Solo. I have everything working but the sound. Well, actually, I got the CD to be able to play and I can hear sound from it but I can't hear the *.wav, *.au or *.midi files play. I did get the graphic card to work at it's full ability. What I had to do was run XF86Setup rather than the SAX that is included with S.u.S.E 5.3. Before I could run and have the XF86Setup work though, I had to go to the /usr/X11R6/bin directory and rename XBF_NeoMagic file to XF86_XBF_Neomagic. You have to name it that and change the case(NeoMagic to Neomagic) before XF86Setup will work. Once I did that, I got it to setup great. I also found a site that helped me too. <A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/"><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</A">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</A</A>> He is trying to do the same thing you are trying to do as far as get a group of us Solo users together. Hope this helps. By the way...what did you do to get your sound to work? Teresa -----Original Message-----From: Harald Sundt <hsundt@uswest.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Friday, November 13, 1998 12:37 PM Subject: [SuSE Linux] S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 on a Gateway 2500 "SOLO" Laptop Faq.

I have successfully installed S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 on a Gateway 2500 "SOLO" Laptop and have WordPerfect, Netscape, GIMP and dial-up working, i.e., I am successfully migrating from Mac OS to Linux, BUT, there are some sugnificant hangs, no PageMaker, GIMP ain't Photoshop yet, no Illustrator, and Real Audio gives me a "segmentation break" squeal when I try to launch it.

Never-the-less, I had to replace the Winmodem, discovered NeoMagic ain't as simple as pie, and Gateway has disowned me, some support techs refusing even to talk about hardware specs and stuff when I mention I have Linux installed, even when there is no System Software aspect to problem.

SO: I was wondering, if you are using a Gateway SOLO laptop, wand you have discovered some kludges, work-arounds, or significant problems or appraoches to problem solving, (like...CAN we use more than 8-bit monitor settings?), e-mail them to me, I will assembal them into a list by topic, and repost here as a one-shot FAQ, forward it to SuSE, and html it and see who might post it as a Beginners Guide to Linux on a Gateway Laptop.

Hell, the Power PC Web-faq is user modifiable, and covers everything under the sun, ( we have <<A HREF="http://www.qni.com/~x86/solo2500.html"><A HREF="http://www.qni.com/~x86/solo2500.html</A">http://www.qni.com/~x86/solo2500.html</A</A>>>, and <<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html"><A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html</A">http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html</A</A>>>), so far.).

ANd tell me if you want to pool our e-mail adresses or not.

Yours,

An Abject Newbie

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