Hi - I just got a new X31, so not quite the same model you're looking at. Here's a link to a useful site. Although this is for the X31, it will probably cover many of the issues on the R50p.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/s.zachariadis/x31.html
SUSE 9.0 Pro installed on my (dual-booted) X31 perfectly. The only thing that is not perfect is acpi. I forgot to install with acpi=off, so the acpi support isn't quite right apparently. Since I'm too lazy to rebuild the kernel for features that aren't seriously important to me (I almost never travel so battery life isn't crucial), I left it.
The X31 has the ATI Mobility graphics - no problem. My model also has built-in IBM Triband (802.11/a/b/g) wireless which is all I had to fiddle with. For this, I was politically incorrect and used Linuxant's driverloader, although have been told the madwifi driver works.
Short answer - SUSE was smart and works great. If you want more information about the nuts-and-bolts of my experience with the X31, you can contact me off-list in case this might be OT for this mailing list. [snip] Thanks Malke :-) I see that ATI even provides "linux certified" drivers for
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 14:45, Malke Routh wrote: [snip] the FireGL T2 so I guess that is not a problem. Adding your information to the calculation I think the R50p will do nicely. -- Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards (( Torkild Ulvøy Resheim, Senior Systemutvikler / Software Engineer )) Emma EDB AS, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.emmaedb.no |----|_ Private pages: http://resheim.no - "Any sufficiently advanced | | ) bug is indistinguishable from a feature." |____|´