I've installed Corel Linux, the download version before; as I liked it, I bought the Deluxe 2nd Ed. I've tried to install it in a Toshiba Satellite 2800 without success. First I can't install knowing what I'm doing because the video card seems not to be recognized. Doing the installations with enter commands and only the default methods (to avoid sellecting things that can't be sellected since you don't see them and can't access them) and hopping the few few sellections you make are right, you can only start corel in text mode. Once in text mode I've found a XF86_SVGA that can replace the original one, and with that I can do startx and works nice. However once you enter corel not from the text mode, but from the boot stage, the graphics work but not quite good, you can see lines over the screen whatever thing you do. The OSS doesn't work either. It seems like it recognizes the sound card, but it never works. If you try to install it again from the OSS configurator, you'll get nothing, and a message saying rmmod: sb not loaded. And even if you manually load this sb module, it doesn't work. You can try configuring the sound from the console, but it's still the same. The internall modem doesn't work either, no matter what you try. The graphics card associated with Satellite 2800 is S3 Savage/IX 64-bit graphics accelerator, AGP bus, 128-bit BitBLT hardware, DirectMPEG and Direct Video support via sftware, with 8MB. The sound card is a Yamaha YMF744B-R, 16-bit stereo, SoundBlaster Pro and FM synthesis support, built-in stereo speakers, full duplex sound, 64-channel wavetable music synthesis, 3D sound support, DirectSound, Direct3DSound, DirectMusic. The internall modem is really an integrated V.90/56K modem and 10/100 Ethernet LAN. If there's someone who can help me handling these issues, please communicate with me via email as soon as you can, and also by the forum. Thanks,

Have a look here http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Laptops are more finicky when it comes to driver compatibility etc. I have Yamaha sound on my Acer Laptop and found the ALSA sound modules much more reliable than OSS. Also your modem is likely a winmodem so you will probably need to get a pcmcia card modem. Read through the docs, and if you still have problems let us know.