I recently put linux on an A135-S2246. It came with Vista Basic, which I promptly removed. :-) It has the 1.7Ghz Celeron M , ATI X200M video, 80 gig sata harddrive, and intel audio. These are my findings: 1. OpenSuSE 10.3-alpha will do the best job of setting things up. -- it will setup 1280x800, and the Synaptics Touchpad -- it will setup battery acpi -- sound is automatic 2. To get the wifi going, you need to patch your kernel with the patch from http://madwifi.org/ It goes in flawlessly, and your ath0 will be found on boot. 3. I prefer Slackware myself, and I used the Xorg.conf from suse, and needed to use the latest version of Slackware current( which has Xorg 7.2 and the Radeon driver) I also needed to get the Synaptics Xorg module from http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ The xorg.conf for 1280x800 is listed at the end of this email. 4. The ACPI is a mixed bag. The 2.6 kernels will find the battery and ac connection, lid lock, etc. The functions keys do not work, but if you get the omnibook patch from http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ you can set the lcd brightness and turn on/off the touchpad by echo'ing values to /proc. For example echo 3 > /proc/omnibook/lcd will set the brightness to 3 (range 0-7) 5. The one thing I could not get to work right, is adding a usb mouse and having it work. The usb-mouse-keys would send events, but the pointer stayed frozen. So it seems for now you are stuck with the touchpad (which works well) Adding a usb keyboard works well however. So all in all, it's a pretty good ( and quiet unit). I connect via ethernet and a DSL modem, and that all works fine. I currently have no way to test the wifi, but ath0 is listed in ifconfig. Your's truly, zentara Joe Milosch -------------------- 1280x800 xorg.conf -------------------------------------------- # /.../ # SaX generated X11 config file # Created on: 2007-04-01T13:50:43-0400. # # Version: 8.1 # Contact: Marcus Schaefer , 2005 # Contact: SaX-User list # # Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1) # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! # Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest" FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts" FontPath "unix/:7100" InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata" InputDevices "/dev/input/mice" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "v4l" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "kbd" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "USB Optical Mouse" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 331 207 HorizSync 30-62 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "LCD MONITOR" Option "DPMS" VendorName "SHP" VertRefresh 43-60 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1280x800" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 Modeline "1280x800" 69.75 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 803 809 823 +HSync -Vsync EndSection Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A62 (PCIE)" BusID "1:5:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "CRT2HSync" "31-48" Option "CRT2Position" "Clone" Option "SaXDualMonitorVendor" "--> VESA" Option "SaXDualOrientation" "LeftOf" Option "SaXDualResolution" "1024x768" Option "SaXDualVSync" "50-60" Option "CRT2VRefresh" "50-60" Option "IgnoreEDID" "yes" Option "MergedFB" "yes" Option "SaXDualHSync" "31-48" Option "MetaModes" "1280x800,1024x768;1024x768,1024x768" Option "SaXDualHead" "" Option "SaXDualMode" "Clone" Option "SaXDualMonitorModel" "1024X768@60HZ" VendorName "ATI" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Extensions" EndSection