I've found your mail via googling for "Samsung p35 Linux", and I thought I could answer your question, since I own a P35 and run Debian on it. The only thing that doesn't work for me yet is Suspend-to-RAM, but I haven't looked into this at all. Matthias Hentges[1] reports that it works in a very hacky way, but I've no idea how hard it is to make suspend-to-ram real-world usable. Everything else works fine: LAN, WLAN (via the ipw2200.sf.net driver), the Radeon (the vanilla one, not the proprietary thing), USB, ACPI, Cpufreq, Sound, Touchpad, CD/DVD. I didn't try out the rest (IrDA, Firewire, PCMCIA, ...), and probably forgot to mention some more things here. I have a few custom ACPI events so volume control via the keyboard works or cpufreq is scaled down when I unplug the power. What didn't work up to now was swsusp (Suspend to Disk). I tried suspend2, but stayed with swsusp then because some kernel guy told me it needed testing anyway ;) Most things worked fine actually (starting from perhaps 2.6.10, when I first tried swsusp), just WLAN stopped working after suspending. I thought it was related to the rather strange WLAN-radio control the P35 has (most Laptops I've seen have a hardware-only switch that controls radio on/of, the P35 has some HW/SW mixture going on there). However with the latest kernel (some checkout of Linus' git tree from 2005-09-10, probably something similar to 2.6.13-git10) WLAN continues to work after suspend. This was quite a pleasant surprise when I tested that kernel. So with 2.6.14 suspend-to-disk should finally work completely, also nice is that the ipw2200 driver got integrated into the vanilla kernel, so no extra modules are necessary any more. So all in all I can safely recommend this laptop to people who want to run Linux on it. The hardware is really well supported by now, except for suspend-to-ram, which however wasn't a big concern for me. HTH, Christian Aichinger PS: Please CC: me, I'm not subscribed to this list. [1]: http://www.hentges.net/misc/howtos/samsung_p30.shtml
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