I've had linux on my laptop for a few weeks and have had no major problems (except this morning after trying KDE's GUI LILO config prog, doh!!)
There are three little things that aren't working and I wish they did. First: DHCP I tried and tried to get it to run with pcmcia utils, and even tried by hand but nothing worked. I was using dhcpcd which I got from the stable update page. I'm now using netenv, but it would be nice if that would have worked. I couldn't even find any logs of anything on what the problem was. Second: poweroff and halt -p don't work, they shutdown and then say poweroff, and it doesn't do anything after. I have compiled my kernel for apm, and installed apmd, and I can suspend and set on it standby and come back just fine. Third: sound I have kernel 2.2.12 , which contains drivers for my sound card (Windows lists it as a NeoMagic 3d, but I've got it to work with OPL3-SAx driver. However the volume is extremely low, I have to use aumix to set it as high as possible, use the dial to turn it as high as possible and I get about medium, medium low sound, however the system beep is louder so, I can't stand to have it that high. Any comments or sugestion for any of these would be welcome, and of course they all work under windows, (well as well as anything can under windows). One final thing, are there any good free video players for linux, I tried xanim (2.70.7.0-3) with a mpeg, and it was choppy, missed parts of the picture and gave a bunch of MPEG errors. I d/l mpegtv from the web, and it works great, except it is shareware. I'd prefer something free (RMS free), if possible, if not maybe a better version of xanim (which is at 2.8*, but there was no slink packages, and was to tired to edit a makefile last night) -- Clint Brubakken Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group Wichita, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Eric also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and shoots pistols for relaxation, His favorite gun is the classic 1911-pattern .45 semiautomatic" -- Chris DiBona on neo-renassaince Homo Heileinias Eric S. Raymond. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
