On May 16, 2005, at 8:12 AM, JT Moree wrote:
Anthony Lordi wrote:
| use, my answer is what will configure. I wanted to configure it with a
| live CD, but Knoppix, Mepis and Ubuntu have issues with my laptop, a
| Compaq Armada 7800, P2 233(or 266 as per Knoppix), 144MB, and 6GB. Will
| bring Libranet 2.8, and Xandros 2 for the hard drive. Tony
should have mentioned this yesterday.
Actually, Tony did. A few of us at the far end were throwing out ideas. I tried various modprobes using Kanotix without success. Although the sound card did not work, the internal speaker was wonderfully loud, letting us know whenever we made a typing mistake.
there is a web site for linux onlaptops. www.linux-on-laptops.com
Doh! Of course. Yes, we should have tried that.
IT doesn't have any 7800 laptops but does have some 7700 series. are they anything alike?
http://www.geocities.com/dxn1999/linux_install.html
IIRC, there were two issues: the mouse and the sound. Under Kanotix, the mouse worked, because we were able to open various windows (terminal, Control Center, etc.) Under Xandros (2 and 2.5), the mouse did not work. The sound did not work under any distribution we tried at the meeting (Kantox, Xandros 2 & 2.5).
Tony, what was the model for the sound card?
it would benefit the community to write a page describing your problems
and how you solved them (or they aren't solved yet). If you need
somewhere to host it I can give you a page on our server.
Agreed. One other success: Tony had an external ethernet adapter from Xircom. I couldn't tell how it was connected, but it worked. Tony, what kind of external ethernet adapter was it?
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