Sharp 9000 laptop + linux

[stavefan]

Hi all,

I have an older laptop, sharp 9000...P-100, 48 mgs ram, 1 gig hard drive, dual scan monitor...

I have been itching to put linux onto it...windows is just way too cluncky on it...

I tried to install red hat 6.2 onto it, but when i got to the gui install, lines of text were all over the screen, boxes that should have had text, didn't...the gui was off-centered..it just looked ugly...

my question is this...if the gui install looks that bad, will X be a problem as well?

is this simply a red hat issue, or would this happen with another distro (red hat is the only one i've ever used, but i am willing to expand)?

is there any way i can find out if my laptop is supported by any distro?

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[ph34r]

Do a text based install, and you should be fine. The gui install uses a generic X server that may (or in your case may not) support your hardware.

Also, redhat has a excellent collection of linux and laptop resources, as does www.linux.org (http://www.linux.org) under "hardware compatability".