After getting my first computer, I was really unhappy with the result of my first attempt to install Linux. And after some retries with this piece of hardware I just wanted to share you what I came through: First thing I have to do is to thank Wakady for his comment since without it I would have stayed for long trying with FreeBSD. Now let's give you some real stuff. I installed openSUSE 10.2, FreeBSD 6.2 -RELEASE and Ubunutu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) on this machine and came with different results and I think they deserve sharing. You will find the first two attempts in older posts so I will go directly to the third one:

Last week, I finally bought my first PC since I entered the computer era. I went for a HP Pavilion dv6183ea which sports a gigantic Intel Centrino Duo 2 running at 1.83GHz, a nVidia GeForce Go 7400 with 256MBs of RAM, etc [read full specification at HP] As a Linux fan, a newbie though, I deceided to install Linux. In the meantime, our company's system admin and I prefers openSUSE so that's what I went for.