On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 05:59:52PM -0600, Jared Burns wrote: > My portable search has brought me to an IBM A30 notebook (the employee > discount helps a lot ;). It comes with Win98 (better than adding to XP's > numbers), but I'll want to run Mandrake on it as my primary OS (considering > dual-boot). Does anyone happen to know if I'll be able to run Mandrake on > this machine? I'm particularly wondering if I'll be able to get the ATI > Mobility Radeon up and running OpenGL apps (Quake). I know the ATI Rage Mobilities work well, esp. if you're under XFree 4.0+ I believe that the Radeon Mobility is just on the cusp of being fully supported. The ATI Driver Status page at XFree.org (http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status6.html#6) says that the Radeon chipset is now supported in v 4.1.0. That doesn't say how hard it will be to configure, but I'm only now starting to do my playing with X v4, and it generally seems really easy to deal with hardware. > If there's no specific knowledge about this notebook/graphics chip on the > list, does anyone know where I can look to find out? I've checked > www.linux-notebook.org with no success. www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html There's currently no A30, but they have info on the A20, A20m, A20p, A21{m|p|e}, and A22{blah}. You can put yours up there, after you try it out. -- I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.