I am considering a laptop that has this mainboard chipset.
I've looked throught the web and found no reports of problems with it (and linux). However, I have also not found sucess stories...
Anyone has a tough about this that can share?
Thanks
João Clemente

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My desktop K6-2 has an ALi chipset and it has worked fine at various times with SuSE, Caldera, Turbo, Corel (Debian), BSD and Mandrake. There is a FAQ or HOWTO somewhere about linux with notebooks - try to find it and check it out. Specifically need to know that the graphics chip is supported by xFree (and sound support if you need it).
.bh.

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Perhaps the only reason for your existence is to act as a warning to others...<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by zepper on 01/18/03 02:21 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

Thanks for your reply.
The graphics from this particular laptop (Aopen 1545) is a geforce2go 200, wich is well supported by the nvidia binary drivers.
The other notebook I'm considering at the moment is the Compaq EVO 800v wich has a Mob. Ati Radeon 7500 (also well supported). It's somewhat more expensive (and heavier), that's the reason I was looking the Aopen 1545.
I'll check the sound support.
Once again, thank you

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