The ASUS G2S-B2 is marketed as a gaming laptop, but is also used extensively by video integrators in the U.S. to build mobile video editing workstations. So, that's what I bought recently after looking at the reviews and prices. I had one unpleasant surprise when I found it wouldn't run XP, or at least, that ASUS makes no XP drivers for it. I may yet try to revert to XP but that's another story for another list. I did image the drive as soon as the machine arrived, then removed all partitions and reformatted it, creating two partitions, one for Windows and one for Linux. (With the image, I can always restore to exactly how it arrived from the factory) So far, no distro has satisfactorily loaded on this machine. Fedora went on, but failed to figure out a driver for the video card and came up in text mode. MEPIS went on, but, each time I tried to upgrade from the VESA driver (the only one that would boot up from the LiveCD, it lost the ability to startx -- I tried the nv driver, and two different nVidia drivers. MEPIS also failed to identify the NIC and load a driver for it, so that was a dead in the water proposition. PCLinuxOS came up in LiveCD mode, but, lost video when I installed it. KUBUNTU failed to find a video driver in LiveCD mode. So, before I start getting specific, and yes, I am googling for success stories, is anyone on the list successfully running Fedora or any flavor of Linux on this machine? No lectures about researching before buying, either, please. I bought this for my Video Editing needs - Linux on this machine is strictly for my personal edification, and Linux compatibility would not have been the deciding factor in this particular purchase. But, that said, I would still like to get it to work -- so, any success stories with this particular model? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
