+ other stuff specification:
- Pioneer Bluetooth USB Adapter
- Wireless PCMCIA QDI 22Mbps
- Kodak DX 4530 5Mpix Digital camera

I had installed Windows XP Pro on my first primary partition, which I use only for Multimedia stuff, working with Video, Audio and Graphic. Windows XP Pro works on NTFS and I didn't install NTFS Kernel support under Linux for security reasons, so I cannot read NTFS partition from Linux. So I made one FAT 32 parition to share files between Windows and Linux when necessery. And then I made one Swap and one Linux reiserfs parition (former was as ext3 formated).

ReiserFS or ext3?
I've used so long ext3 format of partition and I haven't run into some problems with it, but I'd notice that ext3 take more then 260MB of root (/) partition for own needs. That isn't much when you have large harddisk that I don't have :)

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 4.9G 4.2G 459M 91% /

$ df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 5088664 4356936 469068 91% /

5088664-4356936=731728 ?!?!?
It's obvious that there is 714MB (731728) free disk space and not 458MB (469068) like df shows.
I have formated root partition now as reiserfs and I haven't notice any problems or something like that, but I have really noticed much, much free disk space :) From now on I'll keep on reiserfs.


small howto:
How to resize root partition without formating it?! Soon...


With installation of Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26 didn't dectect any of the hardware (not soundcard, not graphicscard, not bluetooth, not wireless, not modem). So I had to compile a new Kernel 2.6.9 and now everything works just fine (except for modem, and graphicscard)

Gnome is removed from Slackware current. If you doesn't use Gnome as your Desktop manager, but you still need some gnome aplications (GParted, gtkam, gThumb, gphoto2) you don't have to install all packages (packages at http://gware.sf.net) for this applications (named above) you will need only this packages:

libbonobo-2.10.0-i486-1gwC.tgz
libbonoboui-2.10.0-i486-1gwC.tgz
libgnomecanvas-2.10.2-i486-1gwC.tgz
libgnome-2.10.1-i486-1gwC.tgz
gconf-2.10.1-i486-1gwC.tgz
gnome-vfs-2.10.1-i486-1gwC.tgz
orbit2-2.12.2-i486-1gwC.tgz
libgnomeui-2.10.1-i486-1gwC.tgz
howl-0.9.10-i486-1gwC.tgz
gnome-keyring-0.4.3-i486-1gwC.tgz
glibmm-2.6.1-i486-1gwC.tgz
gtkmm-2.6.3-i486-1gwC.tgz
libsigc++-2.0.11-i486-1gwC.tgz
libgnomeprintui-2.10.2-i486-1gwC.tgz
libgnomeprint-2.10.3-i486-1gwC.tgz
fam-2.7.0-i486-1gwC.tgz
hicolor-icon-theme-0.5-noarch-1gwC.tgz

You can save disk space using this. For any other applications you will need to test it.


Disk partitions:
Device Disk space System
/dev/hda1 7168MB NTFS
/dev/hda5 15288MB FAT32
/dev/hda6 996MB Linux swap
/dev/hda7 5161MB Linux reiserfs

tested stuff:
- X Windows
- network
- sound
- touchpad, mouse
- multimedia keys (all OneTouch keys working!)
- usb (bluetooth with bluez, digital camera)
- cd burning with k3b, also works for overburning (over 700MB but not more then 780MB)
- dvd viewing
- ACPI support works on Kernel 2.6.9 and Kernel 2.6.11.7
- Hibernate (Software2Suspend)
- PCMCIA wireless
- Bluetooth communaction with SE T610 (file/SMS seding, receiving, phonebook synchronisation)
required stuff: Bluez, OpenObex, KDEBluetoothframework
- Digital camera: pictures viewing, copying
required stuff: gphoto, gtkam, libexif, libgphoto
- CPU temperature state
- battery state, remaining time
- display works also on external Display (VGA-Out)
- dual boot with Windows XP Pro
- Installed drivers for OneTouch keys. I'd tried to make this work long time ago, but there was some problems when unhibernating OneTouch keys stop working. Thanks to H. Kemal it was solved.


OneTouch keys howto:
After unpacking and compiling omnibook-200x-xx-xx.tar.bz2, you need to load omnibook module.
# modprobe omnibook ectype=7
ectype is type of keyboard.
to be sure omnibook is loaded
# lsmod

If every thing is OK you could use mute button under floppy drive.
To make all other three keys working you should do (as root):
setkeycodes e073 175
setkeycodes e071 177
setkeycodes e070 179

and (as user):
xmodmap -e 'keycode 210=XF86Launch1'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 220=XF86Launch2'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 246=Help'

If you want this changes permanent you should add:
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local following:
modprobe omnibook ectype=7

setkeycodes e073 175
setkeycodes e071 177
setkeycodes e070 179

and create new file exp. keymap in .kde/Autostart/keymap (chmod a+x keymap):
#!/bin/bash

xmodmap -e 'keycode 210=XF86Launch1'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 220=XF86Launch2'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 246=Help'

To avoid OneTouch keys stop working after unhibernating (using Suspend2) add in hibernate.conf following:
OnSuspend 20 echo 0 > /proc/omnibook/onetouch
OnResume 21 echo 1 > /proc/omnibook/onetouch


problems :((
- ATI 3D IGP 340M graphic card (no 3d drivers)
I've tried to make this also works, but nothing really happens. I've used drivers on this link. Compiling and Installing was OK but there was no 3d support on the System installed. If you would like to try it also, maybe you will have more luck then I had, you should read this and try it.
- Conexant PC-Modem, free drivers only for 14.4Kbps

not installed yet:
- Conexant PC-Modem
- TV-out not tested yet (drivers for TV-out support could be find under atitvout) Thanks to H. Kemal for this link
- MIDI support

notes:
- I had so many problems with my wireless card, not every driver version works, for Kernel 2.6.9 I had successufully installed 'acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_41.tar.bz2' and for Kernel 2.6.11.7 I must download new one and that is 'acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_47.tar.bz2' and this also works fine. I had try the newest also and the latest 'acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_54.tar.bz2' but this doesn't works.

acx100 drivers doesn't work on Kernel >= 2.6.14. There are other drivers available on http://acx100.erley.org/. I haven't tested it yet.

Here is my firmware files in case you have the same wireless card as I have.
- QDI 22Mbps Wireless PCMCIA Card working firmware

Other tested stuff:

- The really good thing on Linux is that my battery lasts 40% more under Slackware 10.1 (KDE 3.3.2, Kernel 2.6.9 - 1h:45m) than on Windows XP Pro (1h15m). Running on full power, wireless, bittorrent, kopete, firefox, x-chat, OpenOffice Writer... Under Linux console it worked once more then 2h30m, wireless was on, for other applications I do not remember.

- I have also tested Linux LIVE Distributions that boots from CD and does not required instalation:
Mutagenix is a great distro with system-repair/tools like gparted, partimage, and much, much more... You should have this in your collection! :)) I have used this Distro to resize my partition.
Knoppix has the best support for ACPI/APM, more or less everything works fine
PCLinuxOS (based on Mandrake) everything works fine except for ACPI/APM
Slax (based on Slackware) everything works fine more or less except for ACPI/APM

links:

http://www.slackware.com :))

onetouch keys:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/

for wireless:
- http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wlan:conceptronicc22c
- http://rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de/~andi/acx100/?C=M;O=A

for bluetooth:
- http://www.bluez.org/
- http://www.ravioli.pasta.cs.uit.no/open-obex/download.html
- http://kde-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/

for digital camera:
- packages from http://www.linux-packages.net (search for: gphoto, gtkam, libexif, libgphoto)