Hi Charlie (and the rest), I have installed Debian (a mix of unstable/testing) via Knoppix 3.2 on my (university's) Acer Travelmate 803 LCi (Pentium M 1600 MHz, ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HD CD-RW, DVD,....) and it runs OK.
Kernel 2.4.21 patched with laptop patch: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/ plus: -Battery life is very good (~ 4 hours) -Fan almost never comes on (when CPU frequency is reduced to 1200 MHz) -Video adapter support via radeon driver works very well (3D functionality not tested, but DRI driver reports no problems) -LAN interface Broadcom 4401 working w/o any problems -Sound works fine (but do not ask me why, it just does :-) -Synaptics touchpad with excellent support (multi-finger control, slide bars..., use synaptic driver) minus: -ACPI runs only rudimentary (swsusp does not work, klaptop does not work well with ACPI, tried sleepd: no success, poweroff works) -WLAN not supported whatsoever (Intel Pro/Wireless LAN 2100 3B MiniPCI) -Softmodem not working (Agere Systems AC'97) do not know/not tested: -PCMCIA card -USB -Firewire -IR Maybe that gives you an idea? Greetings, Stefan
