[CALUG] Linux Friendly Laptops

[John Alan Hastings]

opensource22 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I would recommend:
> an HP Laptop and SUSE Linux
> 
> I had (& still have) a pretty good experience using
> the above combination. I am using an HP Pavillion
> DV1000 CTO laptop with SUSE Linux 10 and Windows XP
> Pro dual boot setup and Suse being my main OS.
> Installing SUSE is *easy* and painless and using it is
> fun. It is more organized and polished compared to
> other distros.(IMO)
> I used Fedora and Debian before.

I have also had good results with SuSE and laptops, however,
on my HP Pavillion DV1000 I was not able to install it with
ACPI.  When I installed it with ACPI, there was an interrupt
conflict and I was not able use the wired ethernet port.  At
the moment, I am running it without ACPI, but would like to
know if there is any magic that would allow me to install
SuSE with ACPI and still be able to use the wired ethernet
port (I don't use wireless).