Not too long ago, I mused about how pleasant it is to discover that someone had paved a trail where you through you were stumbling alone. I just came across Andrei’s page on configuring Linux on the S580 laptop. Granted, he’s using Gentoo and I’m using Red Hat, and he uses KDE and I use Gnome. Still, for the low-level configuration, his page is a good resource for configuration settings to try.