Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ?

[Serguei Miridonov <mirsev@cicese.mx>]

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Hirling Endre wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:00, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
> > I'm writing this in Compaq Presario 900Z which seems to be similar to your Evo
> > 1015v. After installing RedHat 7.3 with nomce, nopci, etc. I've disabled kudzu and
> > then compiled 2.4.20+ac2+acpi-20021212-2.4.20 with sound and IDE fixes. Now I have
> > UDMA IDE, sound, and 802.11b with prism card (actually I'm writing this at home on
>
> What IDE controller is in the 900z?

Complete /proc/pci is in the attached file...

> I have a fujitsu notebook with the
> igp320m chipset and ali southbridge and 2.5 can't do udma. 2.4 can but
> crashes often.

Have you applied sound fix? This is what I did:

1. Got stock 2.4.20 kernel;
2. Applied ac2 patch;
3. Applied ALI sound patch (discussed here recently);
4. Applied acpi-20021212 patch (some manual work needed after previous patches);
5. Reenabled IDE UDMA (ALI IDE support which was disabled in ac2 patch);

Then I've copied RedHat's 7.3 updated
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.7.x/configs/kernel-2.4.18-athlon.config to .config  in the new
kernel directory and run 'make oldconfig' enabling new ACPI.

After kernel compilation and installation I have almost all features enabled.

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PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: PCI device 1002:cab0 (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 19).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xfbffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4400000 [0xf4400fff].
      I/O at 0x8090 [0x8093].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 1002:700f (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 1).
      Master Capable.  Latency=99.  Min Gnt=12.
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 3).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4010000 [0xf4010fff].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller (#2) (rev 3).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4012000 [0xf4012fff].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev 0).
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 2).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
      I/O at 0x8400 [0x84ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4011000 [0xf4011fff].
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
    CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 2).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=168.  Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=5.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbfe000 [0xffbfefff].
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 32).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
      I/O at 0x8800 [0x88ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4013000 [0xf40130ff].
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 1).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf400ffff].
      I/O at 0x8098 [0x809f].
  Bus  0, device  16, function  0:
    IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev 196).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0x8080 [0x808f].
  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU (rev 0).
  Bus  1, device   5, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1002:4336 (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 0).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=66.  Min Gnt=8.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf6000000 [0xf7ffffff].
      I/O at 0x9000 [0x90ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4100000 [0xf410ffff].