Hi, I should have realized that getting a "new" laptop would mean some setup woes would be involved. I have two problems that I was wondering if you folks could help out with. The first is the sound. SuSE 9.0 seems to recognize the sound card, but does not connect it to a driver. If I go to add a sound card, the one my system reports is not on the list. From the info I got on the Toshiba website, this is a RealTek AC'97 sound card. My hardware info reports this: 23: PCI 14.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller [Created at pci.65] Unique ID: hB6S.0pxIf7ccEy4 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Toshiba America Info Multimedia audio controller" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x4341 SubVendor: pci 0x1179 "Toshiba America Info Systems" SubDevice: pci 0xff00 Memory Range: 0xf4004400-??? (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 11 (50060 events) Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown That's the one problem. The other is that the system has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (that uses a chunk of main ram for video ram). I am only able to use this card using vesa drivers. Is there a newer actual radeon driver available to use? The laptop is a performance issue as well. Although I am not sure if that's because of the video driver or something else. I have tried to engage dma for the disks, but have been un-sucessful at that. Any help would be much appreciated!! Pete =========================================================== Pete Durst Chief Engineer Senior Sun Consultant, Sun Certified System Administrator Sun Certified Network Administrator, Sun Certified Security Administrator, LPI Certified Instructor pete@exitcertified.com Tel:(613) 232-3948 x224 Fax:(613) 232-3949 85 Albert Street, Suite 1200, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6A4 =========================================================== ExitCertified - Excellence in IT Certified Education Authorized Sun, VERITAS, Guru Linux and Symantec Training Center Ottawa ~ Montreal ~ Quebec City ~ Calgary ~ Vancouver Sacramento ~ San Francisco ~ Las Vegas www.exitcertified.com USA (800) 803-3948 CAN (613) 232-3948 ===========================================================