Last updated: 29th November, 2001.

• The RedHat 6.x graphical install won't work. It seems the X server just gets plain confused by the whole thing and produces a garbled output.
• You'll find it best to use the XFree86 XF86Setup program instead of the RedHat X configurator.. it seems to work better. RedHat doesn't install this by default even though the RPM is on the CD. Alternatively, you can use this XF86Config file.
• As with many complex mouse devices, the XF86 3.x.x series X servers can get rather confused.. Using the straight PS/2 mouse protocol works well, if and only if the Synaptics mousepad is reset first. To do this download the tpconfig configuration utility and put 'tpconfig -x > 2>&1' into /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm just before the line starting gpm and make sure gpm is set up to use the PS/2 Microsoft mouse protocol. Don't run gpm with the 'synps2' mouse type. It will put the pad into a mode incompatible with the X server.
• The mouse scroll rocker switch isn't supported by either gpm or X. From what I can make out, in the mode into which tpconfig places the pad the rocker switch is totally disabled.

To get both of these you'll have to upgrade to a new kernel. 2.2.19 has drivers for both of these. You'll also need the pcmcia stuff. If you're using RedHat, make sure you load the kernel source etc. The source has the pcmcia stuff inside the kernel source tree.

I'll assume that you know how to download, build and install a kernel and the modules, so I'll not go into details.

Options to enable.

• Code maturity level options -> Prompt for development drivers
• General setup -> APM (Just the normal options will work, no tricks).
• Block Devices -> ALI 15X3 chipset support.
• Sound -> Trident 4DWave

	alias sound trident

I had been told that the ALSA sound driver supports the sound system including the synth, however, although it supports the Trident 4D wave sound systems and the SiS chipset which are very similar to the one in this laptop, it doesn't support the ALi 5451 audio accelerator. I've been hacking around with the driver from the 0.9.0beta3 release and can now get it to load but there are no sounds coming out of it as yet.

You should now have a system with sound but no midi or synth and UDMA enabled. Now, all that needs to be done is to set the drive up using hdparm in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Merely put the following line at the end:-

	hdparm -c 1 -K 1 -m 16 -S 12 /dev/hda