Regarding your sound problem. I had one of these laptops for a while and it had a Yamaha sound chip in it. YMF Solo-1 or something like that. Back when I got it working I was using the sound system that preceded alsa. It was a royal pain to get working. If you have a LiveCD that makes your sound work, check the settings it uses. I know there is something that can auto detect these chips, but let me tell you, they are a PITA to set up manually. I'm pretty sure that DamnSmall got it right and working. The chip communicates over an ISA bus.

-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hutchins Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:08 PM

I have an old laptop, IBM ThinkPad 380 Z, that had Mandrake 9.1 installed and running reasonably. It's a low-power system, with only a 300MHz PII, 96M of ram, and a 3G hard drive, but it ran Mandrake reasonably well.