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:P Just a little update on my installation. Equipment clarification: Network card is a 3c575 Sound is Yamaha 744 The laptop is running in a port replicator with an external Logitech TrakMan and the trackpoint both working. I used urpmi to setup and download all available updates from the mirrors (104). Used the configuration tool to turn on power management and the shutdown problem was solved. Change the bootloader to the Linux entry for default instead of Linux-smp. This resulted in much inproved application performance and reduced delay on launch. Thats is for now. Seems very stable.

:P Installed on Toshiba Tecra 8100 750 Mhz Pentium III 20Gb HD 3Com PCMCIA LAN cardbus 100 mb card S3 Savage MX video with 8MB Yamaha sound I must say this product looks really good. I was running 9.2 on this machine previously and could see increased performance immediately. On the initial installation I tried an upgrade from 9.2 and when completed had errors reported on the LAN and X windows would not launch. I then decided to do a clean install. The only item on auto configured by the installation was the video system. The installation detected S3 Savage generic which would not run at 1024X768 15 bit. When manually selected the Savage MX would not run either, Savage generic, sw cursor was the driver which worked. Once the install completed and the system was up the clock was not configured properly, even though I had selected the time zone. This required manual setting. Mandrake update would not connect to the default mirrors but I was able to add a mirror to the media list and begin checking for updates. After a reboot, X windows failed to initialize. I went to failsafe and used MC to check the Xfree86config-4 file. It was still set to Savage generic. This shows the changes made during installation configuration were not written to the file. I launched XFdrake and reconfigured for the Savage generic/ sw cursor and backed up the file. This corrected the problem and allowed for reboots with no problems. Shutdown doesnt power of the laptop but I haven't had time to check this out. Nice upgrade!