f8 and everex zonbu

[Jlwallen]

hello all. I have found myself attempting to rescue an everex laptop  
with a via on board video card and atelheros wireless. so far I have  
tried about every flavor of Linux I know with mixed results. either  
the graphics are horrific (or, in the case of F8 do not work at all)  
or the wireless doesn't work. I would like to install F8 but I can't  
even get the video to work enough to run the live cd.

does anyone have any experience with getting F8 working on this  
hardware?  I've spent quite a bit of googling and the closest thing I  
can come up with is openchrome (which doesn't seem to have been  
updated recently.)

am I missing something?

thanks all

jack

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