I've reached the point where I really need a Haiku laptop, and of course it needs to be fully functional. I've been pretty baffled at trying to track such a beast down, by looking at them in BestBuy and places, and trying to match those to ones listed as found-to-work on HaikuWare. Then I came across a post by Scott a couple of years back that mentioned ZaReason, who specialize in Linux boxes. As they're just around the corner [well, across town...] I asked if I could bring a loaded USB stick by to try out. They're very cooperative folks, so I was over there this afternoon. Everything worked beautifully ... *except* for audio -- which is the one thing I *really* need! Sound certainly came out (from MediaPlayer and my own fluidsynth stuff) but it was just a stuttering hash from which I couldn't pick out anything much of what it actually was. It would be great if somebody has a clue as to what might be wrong. And what is likely to be the difficulty in fixing it. How variant is "HDA"? Their machine obviously works in Linux, so I assume that any required code could be transported to Haiku. I did a 'listdev', and the entry for the audio is: device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c20: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller I wasn't able to test networking of course, so I'm making the assumption that it works (I see a rtl81xx driver in our set, and the Network pref recognized it): device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0] vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. device 8168: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller Be nice if Wifi (which it has) worked too, but that's not so urgent for me. It seems to me it would be a great asset to have a supplier of known compatible boxes. As I said, they are very cooperative, and seem to be nice folks. Most of the comments I've found on the web are very favourable too. The machine I tried ("Strata") is priced at $750, which is not super-cheap but reasonable. I want to buy one (if we can get it fully working)! Help me out... (:-)) Thanks, -- Pete -- ------ Appended, the entire listdev: device Serial bus controller (SMBus) [c|5|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c22: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller device Mass storage controller (SATA controller, AHCI 1.0) [1|6|1] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c03: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller device Bridge (ISA bridge) [6|1|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c49: HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller device Serial bus controller (USB Controller, EHCI) [c|3|20] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c26: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 device Bridge (PCI bridge, Normal decode) [6|4|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c18: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 device Network controller [2|80|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 008a: Centrino Wireless-N 1030 device Bridge (PCI bridge, Normal decode) [6|4|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c12: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0] vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. device 8168: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller device Bridge (PCI bridge, Normal decode) [6|4|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c10: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c20: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller device Serial bus controller (USB Controller, EHCI) [c|3|20] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c2d: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 device Communication controller [7|80|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 1c3a: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family HECI Controller #1 device Display controller (VGA compatible controller, VGA controller) [3|0|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 0116: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller device Bridge (Host bridge) [6|0|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 0104: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller