On Thursday 14 February 2002 07:43, Kovriga, Gregory wrote: > Hi, everyone. > I've recently spend a couple of days trying to install RH7.2 on Presario > 701EA (don't by it) laptop. Even though the installation goes without > errors or serious issues, there are problems after trying to run: > 1. On reboot the laptop doesn't boot from hard disk. > 2. If using startup diskette, it starts booting Linux, but kernel crashes. > > Any ideas/experience with those laptops? Maybe suggestion as to some other > distro? > > Thanks in advance, > Gregory. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, There are glitches with Compaq Presario 700 series notebooks and Linux, for three reasons: 1. Something is wrong with PCI IRQ routing or similar, and you should use a kernel with recent ACPI patches that allow doing that via ACPI (note that latest 2.4.x and even 2.5.x does not have these patches), 2. Athlon optimized kernels Oops like crazy on those because of gcc/kernel/... bugs. 3. The PNPBIOS patch included in recent Mandrake distribution kernels also makes this laptop crash. I'm not sure if it's a bug with the patch or with the laptop. Some people have managed to get Linux working on these, in a limited fashion, but there are still various crashes in X because of the S3 Twister K video chip and I haven't heard anyone who managed to get the built-in i810-like sound to work... probably because of IRQ problems, maybe with the ACPI patches it might work, I don't know. Good luck getting it running on yours, I know I've given up. - Koby Kahane ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
