Damn Small Linux - Not!

tuxedo · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 16 Location: paris - france

Hi,

As in DSL forum, it would be nice to have a list of laptops which work out of the box with dsl-n.
I've tried it on an IBM T23 P3 1,13GH, HD:30 GB , RAM:256 MB.
I ran it from the live cd using toram option. It ran smoothly: Vdeo OK (amazing fluidity), USB ok, but from now i couldn't have the sound work out of the box (sound controller: Intel 82801 CA/CAM AC'97).
By the way i could'nt have sound working neither with dsl 2.3

Have someone had sound ok on this laptop?
Thanks

tuxedo · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 16 Location: paris - france

more info about this:

lsmod|grep audio returns:
i810_audio 36884 0
ac97_codec 20108 1 i810_audio
soundcore 11104 2 snd,i810_audio

lspci |grep audioreturns:
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio controller (rev01)
and the command 'cat /dev/sndstat' gives the message 'no such file or directory

With xmms, with OSS configured as output plugin, i get thos messages:
livorbisfile.so.3: cannot open shared object file : No such file or directory (same message for libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 and libmikmod.so.2

any help welcome..

flamesfan · Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

I have it running on a IBM Thinkpad 380z with 300mhz processor, 95mb of ram,
and it runs very very good no problems other than getting the wireless card working.

typhon · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Germany

With IBM thinkpad 600e and 600x, there are some problems at startup.

[url]http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-nhref="/dsl-n/f/viewtopic/57.html[/url]

vicdigital · Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 9 Location: san antonio tx

running on a libretto 50 ct

75mhz intel
810 mb hd
32 mb ram
oronico silver wireless card
used the frugal instal thanks to other users here
and thier advice runs great

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

My laptops running DSL-N

Thinkpad T20 256MB 700Mhz
Everything works from boot up, sound, winmodem, and it is using an a very cheap airlink wirlesss card via ndiswrapper.

Thinkpad 240 196MB, 400Mhz
Needs fb800x600 at boot up. Everything works, sound, winmodem etc
Using an orinoco wirless card

lynnloe · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

Looks great and no bugs so far just a fun lean machine!!!

Del · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 11 Location: IE, CA, US

Compaq Armada 1750 (300MHz PII, 128Mb, 14")
Runs great! Had to fiddle a bit with sound (found solution in these forums), otherwise "out of the box".

BeastlyKing · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

My Thinkpad 600 with 300 Mhz,HD:5Gb & RAM 160Mb is having a video driver problem, the screen is all green & blue and its hard to make out words.
ANY IDEAS WELCOME!!

durbnpoisn · Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 18

I'd like to chime in with my listing for a laptop.

I have an AST "Designed for Win98" laptop
266mhz
64mb RAM
4gb HD (but only 2gb is partitioned for use. (I'll explain that later)
max 800x600 res

Running Live CD DSL-N 3.01

The HD on this machine has SuSE 9.2 installed on it. When it set up the partitions on the drive, some part of the drive was messed up. So, that part got locked off, never to be used again. Which is fine, because if there are physical errors, they shouldn't spread very quickly.
NIC is a no-name PCMMCIA card. So far DSL and SuSE are the only distros that can actually see it.

Anyway... SuSE leaves a rather large footprint on a HD. It takes up about 93% of the drive, even with most of the useless crap removed. I left KDE and Gnome, even though I'm using Fluxbox. (I like the KDE file manager for some things.)

So, even with all of that taken up, the DSL-N live CD run perfectly fine, and I can mount the HD to save important stuff that I don't want to keep in the backup file.

I've used 3 or 4 different versions of DSL as it's been evolving, on this machine. This is the best version so far!!

TruBlueEQ · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Southern California

[quote="BeastlyKing"]My Thinkpad 600 with 300 Mhz,HD:5Gb & RAM 160Mb is having a video driver problem, the screen is all green & blue and its hard to make out words.
ANY IDEAS WELCOME!![/quote]

this solution worked for me...

Setup->X Setup

Choose "Xfbdev"

then reboot...you must do a full system reboot, restarting X doesn't work.

let me know how it goes.

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

DSL-N works +/- out of the box from CD or USB with my Dell Latitude D400 - 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM.

But:

1. Cheatcode vga=normal, 769, 771, 773 or 785
2. Dell wireless 1450 (Broadcom chipset) requires ndiswrapper
3. Full use of display requires XFree86 and 855wrap
4. Full use of touch pad requires XFree86 and synaptics driver

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

I am now running DSL-N on the ultraslim, subnotebook Sharp MM10
1 Ghz Crusoe processor, built in wireles works (atheros) , as well as built in touchpad (synaptic).

What is strange, is that machine would not boot at all with the default OSS sound. Must use alsa or nosound. I use alsa boot option and alsa.dsl. Alsa sound works fine as it detected the built in sound chip ali5451.

AndyLowe · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

[quote]Compaq Armada 1750 (300MHz PII, 128Mb, 14")
Runs great! Had to fiddle a bit with sound (found solution in these forums), otherwise "out of the box".[/quote]

I have a couple of Armada 1750 surplused from my kids' school where I volunteer to service the computers and network. I would like to try out DSL-N.

Armada runs ubuntu Breezy Badger OK, but the laptop itself is like a Humvee. I wonder if we could install DSL-N in a small form factor such as the portable DVD player that my kids use.

The DVD player has a 8" LCD screen. Could anyone kindly provide me the info as how to change the DVD drive to a keyboard and enough room for a DSL-N loaded compact flash drive so it can work like a ultraportable laptop?

I'm aware of the new ultraportables from Microsoft and flipstart. However, they run on Windows XP and have not been in full production.

AndyLowe · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

Hi, John, I would like to hear your take on my new post? Thanks.