Thanks for the info.
LinuxBIOS on laptops is a mess that we're only beginning to jump into. Laptops have an embedded controller, sometimes referred to as an EC, that can control everything from power to LCD control, etc, etc. The docs on these are usually covered by an NDA, with one real exception: the part used by OLPC's XO. See also http://www.linuxbios.org/Laptop
Sounds not ver optimistic for me.
As for the rest of your hardware, I think some work was being done on the i855, but I don't know what the outcome of it was. The i82801dbm should work, either through the regular or generic implementation. You haven't listed the Super IO, so I can't tell if that would work or not,
Actually I don't know what this Super IO is and where I can get this information from. Is there a tool like lspci available, or do I need to open my laptop?
but there's a list of supported hardware on the LinuxBIOS wiki. The rest of the hardware can be dealt with later, although in a perfect world it should Just Work.
-Corey
Gerhard.