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 P.S.: Free SUSE Linux hint: DON'T TRY TO FOLLOW BOOK's INSTRUCTIONS ON CHANGING RUN LEVEL BY EDITING INITTAB TO 3, if you get failed X display, hit control-atl-excape to dump into command line, start Midnight Commander, ( mc ENTER ) can use it's vi editor to restore settings as per YAST. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e