First off, graphic support has always been lousy on this laptop, it shares the main mem with the onboard savage twister. Its aminly work stuff so it isn't critical, just annoying since xvideo hangs it in Xine etc.

Install actually very smooth ... everything except winmodem configured.
However on first reboot it hangs on pcmcia.

Temp Soln:

Boot into rescue:
I removed the Sxxpcmcia and Kxxpcmcia from the /etc/init.d directories.
It should be noted no pcmcia device was plugged in for the install or boot so perhaps it will work when it detects one??

Anyone with similar pcmcia problems ???

I just renamed the files to _Sxxpcmcia and the init.d pcmcia is still there if i wanna try by hand.

I've been using this laptop (powernotebooks powerpro:33) for 2 yrs, first with mdk8.1, presently with 9.0, and I have had no trouble with it, although lightning just fried the lucent winmodem(worked great). Back to the pcmcia thing, the module always locks it up on boot, so I turnedit off not having any cards to use it on. This site: http://www-student.informatik.uni-bonn.de/...amilo-d_en.html describes another's experience with it and linux which may help you.
I heard there are 3d drivers for savage twister put out by Via. Jon