Does anything in Linux work *well* 1570

Mine isn't supported either. But automount mounts it every time I plug it in, and Digikam works with it just fine as a mbutt storage device. I don't bother with the "Album" part, but it worked the one time I tried it.

The only USB problems I've had of any repute in several years is:

1) the 802.11 board in this laptop doesn't work (there's some new trolling material, Flatso, but be careful because I haven't really bothered with it much and it's probably something simple); 2) the bluetooth dongle is detected but I don't know how to get it to talk to another one (that's a problem that *I* have, Flatsie, so I wouldn't use it); 3) this machine doesn't want to get out of the stage of checking the BIOS if I have the cardreader plugged in (I'm not sure if I do it without a card in it or not since I never tried that, but that's a verifiable hardware problem in any event); and 4) the USB CD writer sometimes gets retarded and starts hanging when getting ready to burn a CD, at the point of blank insertion, before any write attempt starts. The last also maybe hardware-related since it only started doing it when connected to this laptop.

Long ago and far away I sometimes had problems with NICs (proven to be hardware in all but one instance), printers (Lexmarks are crap; some models of Canon are crap), video cards (weak support, crappy rendering, buggy drivers), USB keyboards (the $9.99 models that came with a cheap mouse were likely to cause problems anyway, but I just had to find out for myself), mice that hung up when using rotary-switched KVM boxes (actually a hardware problem with the computer, but it happened most often when switching to linux from NT) and a few other buttorted odds and ends.

Current crappiness is related to video on this laptop. SIS is crap. But when I consider the price I paid and that this machine is more for demo than for actual use, I can live with it (I just gotta get off'n my butt and get 64-bit to replace my b0rken 32-bit mobo and CPU, then I can quit using this machine fulltime).

I hope he doesn't cheat off of you or I'll *never* know if he's capable of getting it on his own!

-- The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall.