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Topic: Late model low-end laptops, Looking for dsl compatibility

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Posted: Jan. 08 2005,16:14

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I think that any laptop made in the last 3, 4 years would do great if you had 128MB of RAM in it

Sadly, this is not necessarily true (as I have discovered), and this of course may apply to other Knoppix-derived distros as well. Some laptops just won't boot because of (?) incompatibility with certain hardware, apparently. Some say I could have more luck with Kanotix. Also, at least according to Rapidweather, late model Dells require the syslinux version of dsl.

I've been told that Knoppix 3.7 has the 2.6 kernel which contains increased support for AMD 64-bit chips, so the large r3000 family of new low-end HP Compaq laptops under various diverse names using AMD XP or XP-M (32-bit crippled) chips might just boot with Knoppix 3.7 and the 'knoppix26' cheatcode. It seems these may not boot with knoppix versions up to & including 3.6.

I know all this because I've been plaguing various forums trying to find out if the cut-price Compaq HP nx9105 (XP-M 3000+ 1.6GHz cpu), which I would like to buy, will boot Knoppix and related livecds (and dsl). I got one shot at it and it wouldn't boot dsl 0.9.0.1 or 0.8.1.1 or knoppix 3.2 (i think it was).

The lack of quality information on newer laptops and knoppix is a nuisance.

Now, if I could just get that store manager to let me put my knoppix 3.7 livecd in his untouched virginal nx9105 ....

Of course I suppose I can always run dsl embedded within WinXP on a new model machine .. or can I? Are there hardware issues there as well?

EDIT: Just noticed this. Perhaps I should have tried dsl 0.7.2.

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Mr. Cool

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Posted: Jan. 12 2005,01:51

I have a Compaq Presario 2100 which I guess would be a lower end newer laptop. I bought it brand new in early 2004, it was the 3rd cheapest model the store had.

It works perfectly with DSL if you run with the acpi=off boot parameter. If you don't include this parameter it will lock up during boot.

X works, sound works, network card works, firewire works, pcmcia slot works, usb works, all without any extra configuring by me. The internal winmodem does not work though, although I don't think this is a problem for many people, and besides my laptop is probably the last model to have an internal winmodem.

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Posted: Jan. 25 2005,12:01

Thanks for your feedback Mr Cool I'll check it out if I come across one.

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marcovivaldo@tiscali.it
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Posted: July 21 2005,17:52

Quote (Mr. Cool @ Jan. 11 2005,20:51)

I have a Compaq presario 2100 too...but DSL crash...why?

mgmont

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Posted: July 21 2005,20:09

Mr. Cool, thanks for sharing the information about your Compaq Presario 2100. My son has one and we tried running the DSL live cd and it just locked up and gave us a black screen. He did not seem too interested at the time, so we did not try anymore. I will suggest that we try the apci=off boot parameter and see if it will work.

Thanks!

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