I bought a Toshiba P105-6104 <a href="http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?seg=HHO&amp;poid=351574&amp;coid=-30597">http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?seg=HHO&amp;poid=351574&amp;coid=-30597</a><br>&nbsp;
(2nd choice and long story).&nbsp; I've been having some problems getting video and sound up for Linux and hope someone here can help me make this usable.&nbsp; If not I may have to try to take it back.&nbsp; I have tried Ubuntu 6.06, 
6.10 Beta, and SUSE10.1.&nbsp; The problems are not universally the same.&nbsp; Although I now have SUSE running, it has problems too and is not my preferred environment.&nbsp; <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">
Resizing the NTFS partition to permit dual boot:</span><br style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><ul><li>Partition magic 8.0 tried but failed safely in the end (no damage)</li><li>Ubuntu 6.06 failed (had to run CD in safe graphics mode) and corrupted something (had to use Restore Disk)
</li><li>Ubuntu 6.10 failed to even boot in safe graphics mode (acted like regular start so maybe safe mode inactive)</li><li>SUSE 10.1 resized NTFS although XP Media Center Edition had to do a chkdsk on startup<br></li></ul>
Between bullets 3 &amp; 4 above I ran the machine with no Windows partition at all.&nbsp; The results noted below were checked there and then reverified for SUSE now that I have restored XP MCE and then reloaded SUSE.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1440x900 </span></span>Display:</span><br style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><ul><li>Ubuntu 6.06 Was never able to run anything but safe mode (1024x768) even after installing 915resolution and changing /etc/X11/Xorg.conf (from memory) which is supposed to fix the problem for Intel's 945GM graphics chip.&nbsp; This issue has been resolved but the person who did it has not answered my email in 4 days.
<br></li><li>SUSE 10.1 booted right into 1440x900 (lower resolutions available) but displays an artifact in the lower right corner of the screen but ONLY for the desktop background.&nbsp; It does not show up for any window which covers it.&nbsp; The artifact looks like a line of morse code about 1 inch above the bottom and about 2 inches long reaching the right edge.
</li></ul><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intel 82801G </span></span>Sound:<br></span></span><ul><li>Ubuntu 
6.06 produces no sound.&nbsp; It is a known issue but again the one source I found who had solved it AND gave a contact has not answered my email.</li><li>SUSE 10.1 does have a driver for the 82801G but it seems not to work.&nbsp; Windows is still the only place I can hear sound.
</li></ul><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Software Updates for SUSE 10.1:<br></span></span><ul><li>Update Manager indicate the are 246 updates to do but is apparenly unable to do any of them.&nbsp; Using Yast/Yast2 directly also fails.&nbsp; There is a known issue here as well but I have found no published fix for it.&nbsp; The public info seems to say it is extrememly slow and error prone.&nbsp; That matches my experience.&nbsp; One site said if you updated only one specific item it would help the problems but I was not able to successfully do even that update (BTW I did complete one update which took the original number from 248 to 246).&nbsp; The error I get from trying to update anything is the attached graphic.
</li><li>I did find a web page that showed a partial solution using y2pmsh from the command line but other than installing specific packages it sems rather cryptic to me.&nbsp; While it might be used to install fixes for the main problem, I have not a clue what would solve it.
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