On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am thinking of buying the Compaq Evo 800v
I just traded in my Compaq Presario 1400 for a Compaq Evo N160. I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on it. The video works fine (though I haven't yet played with 3d acceleration). The N160 has a Radeon Mobility 6 or something, but it's the same driver in X. The ethernet card is the same, and it just worked for me. Haven't had any problems at all. I'm told that the modem can be made to work. I downloaded the driver last night but I haven't installed it or tested it. The drivers are available from conexant's site. The guy at the shop seemed to think that Asus were the way to go in terms of getting drivers, and the price on those things was pretty amazing, but I love my notebook now :). I'm having trouble with ACPI, but I'm about to post on that subject, so you'll hear all about it soon :) Note: They *don't* have APM. You have to do power management with ACPI. Lack of floppy shouldn't be a problem, but are you sure? my machine come with one (which I haven't used). You disconnect the CD drive to plug it in. But yes, they boot from CD just fine. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
