I worked on a Compaq similar to that model a couple of months ago. That will not be the only problem you will have with your HP. But don't worry, don't despair.
The distro I installed on it was gentoo, but if there any Redhat experts just correct me. Disable autodetection of devices including firewire. I had found that by disabling hotplugging it was enough. This is due to a bug in the firewire driver as of release of some old kernels. It is easily solvable by upgrading to the latest and newest 2.4 kernel by Marcelo. I believe the latest 2.4.23-rc3 will be the final 2.4.23 so its quite safe. Next problem you will probably have is with your video card. HP/Compaq decided to use some strange chipset related to AGP. The kernel guys had to put in some new stuff there as well as the Xfree guys too. Thus you will have to patch the kernel as well as using a cvs Xserver. If you are not comfortable with that then you will have to settle for VESA when installing your video card. That's what I remember from on top of my head. Hope it helps -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Cassar Sent: 23 November 2003 14:28 To: [email protected] Subject: [LINUX.ORG.MT] redhat 9 on laptop I just got a new HP NX9010 laptop and created two partitions, one with win xp the other empty. I was planning on installing redhat 9 on the second partition but have the following problem. Installation is from redhat cds. As soon as the installation starts I have "Welcome to Red Hat Linux Loading Loading ohci1394 driver..." and it just hangs there. Please, I really need to get linux on this laptop Thanks btw - the meeting date/time/place is just fine, thanks ;) _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
