I regret to report that this is an abysmal failure on my Acer Travelmate
laptop.
The display booted and looked fine. Hovering over the widget for battery
status/cpu frequency popped up a display. A right-click on the panel brought
nothing. A click on the F menu brought nothing. I moved back to the widget
that had first worked, and at that point the mouse pointer froze.
Ctrl-alt-backspace does nothing, so I suspect that the keyboard is not being
read either.
Hardware
Pentium M730 cpu
ATi Mobility Radeon X600
didn't get as far as testing network.
Anne