I found the page: http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/hpn5425/
which had some very useful information on running Woody on this laptop (which unfortunately seems to be designed around the assumption that you aren't going to use anything other than WinXP Home) I am hoping to get acpi working on it, which appears to depend on also having AMD PowerNow! support; this is now available as a patch for current (2.4.19) kernels, and is included in the "jp" patches; I am compiling a kernel as I write, and will post back with results if anyone is interested. I was curious about the (admittedly minor) issue noted on the above page regarding the annoyingly loud system beep. Don't try this at home late at night if anyone is sleeping nearby - they may well be woken up by the system beep on this laptop. The author of the above page (dwhedon, I assume??) said he had done something to /drivers/char/vt.c to solve this; I assume you edited something in that particular file in the kernel sources to kill the beep - what did you do?? It is a large file, and it would be useful to know how to kill that noise. I also can't seem to get a USB mouse working on this machine; I plug it in, briefly identified as "unknown device", then it disappears from the USB device list. Can't identify the problem any more specifically than this at the moment, unfortunately. Everything USB set up as module, hotplug installed, should work. Running woody w. kernel 2.4.19 (soon to be 2.4.19jp, if everything goes well). If anyone else has anything to contribute to getting this laptop to work better under Debian, comments much appreciated. Bruce
