I got really sick of XP, and I got that nifty DVD from Novell with SuSE
9.1 on it, so I went ahead, shrunk XP's partition, repartitioned the HD,
and put SuSE Linux on there.
So far, what doesn't work are hibernation (ignores Fn-F12), tapping on the
touchpad (but I usually turn that off anyhow... I do it too often by
accident) and the on-screen display (the volume / brightness / ThinkLight
keys work, but no OSD accompanies them). What might work are the modem
(maybe, haven't tried) and suspension (kb locked up last time). What
surprisingly works are the 802.11b mini-PCI NIC (I had to compile a driver
for it, but it was easy once I got a custom kernel going), and the sound.
I expect the list of "don't work"s to shrink. Also, I'm figuring out KDE
and SuSE (first time on each), so I'll get better at them.
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