Re: Compaq Presario

To: Bec Carey <bec@carey.id.au>, Laptop DEBIAN <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario
From: Fedor Karpelevitch <fedor@karpelevitch.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:58:47 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 200310071658.47592.fedor@karpelevitch.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 3F8312C8.4010803@carey.id.au>
References: <[🔎] 3F8312C8.4010803@carey.id.au>

Bec Carey wrote:
> Has anyone on this list installed debian on a Compaq Presario 907 ?
>  I tried to install Red Hat 9 on my machine, but after numerous
> problems had to roll back to XP.  Has anyone managed to get debian
> running on the same machine as mine ?

there is a mailing list of Linux users on Presario 900:

http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/linuxpresario900

The key to get linux running on this laptop is a newer kernel - 2.4.22 
works fine or 2.4.21 with ACPI patch. You can also get started 
booting with 2.2.x kernel and then building a custom one.

Fedor.

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