> > afaict the CP-X uses some variant of the Maestro 3. ahh yes, having finally found where XP hides the hardware list, its an ESS Maestro. any known issues for setting up ALSA that i should be aware of? think i'll wait till i can get hold of mandrake 9.1 tho and do my hard disk partitioning, till then i can work from a bootable DVD distro... > Here's a great page for setting up linux on laptops, with links to TONS > of pages, i see multiple links for latitude CPX: > http://www.linux-laptop.net/dell.html thats great, thanks heaps! bw m~ > -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E