Re: debian on compaq deskpro 5133
> > > Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ?
> >
> > What hardware does it have?
>
> Sony CDU77e cdrom drive
> 3.25 Floppy
> 2 2.1 G IDE HD
> 32 M RAM
> Matrox Millenia graphics card
> Unknown ethernet card.
Is this the older `Deskpro XL 5133' model?
The following is an excerp from the Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO:
http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/
Compaq maps the 32bit entry point of the PCI-BIOS way up around the 4GB
address. Linux can not access it there with the mapping it usually
has. Therefore if no special precautions are taken the kernel prints
"pcibios_init: entry in high memory, unable to access" on booting. This
leaves the PCI stuff unavailable and hinders the functioning of nearly all
PCI devices. Compaq provides a "BIOS relocation" service called MOVEPCI (a
kind of virtual device driver) that remaps the PCI 32bit BIOS entry point
to an address that Linux can read. However, this has the major disadvantage
that you have to boot DOS (to call MOVEPCI in your CONFIG.SYS) before you
can boot Linux (by using the program loadlin).
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Aside from that (!), I don't know about the CD. The HARDWARE-HOWTO
mentions:
· Sony CDU31A/CDU33A
· Sony CDU-535/CDU-531
The Matrox is supported by XFree-3.3 and above using the SVGA server.
Peter
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