I have nearly everything working with Kubuntu (Debian Sid, ungh, I have used Sid/unstable as my Desktop OS for several years until I discovered the joys of Kubuntu).
First, the video will not work without the 3rd party drivers provided by ati. The stock kernel drivers will not work (as much as I love this laptop I will never buy anything with ATI again, my desktop has a 64 bit distro and the nvidia binary drivers which works surprisingly well).
Also, the card reader does not work for me, though the pcmcia slot works great (I have a prism54 card and a gigabit ethernet adaptor working perfectly). I also have the internal wireless card working with the ndiswrapper driver.
You can video working by setting the video driver to vesa. This is only a short term solution but it works (it also only supports 1024x768 instead of the laptops native 1280x768 resolution).
I also spent a lot of time hacking the xorg.conf file which I am sure is buggy but works great in 2d. 3D still does not work for me, but I don't care about that. I will post my ugly xorg.conf file later (I am not at that machine right now).
I am using the 32 bit version of Kubuntu btw.You will need the kernel headers installed to build the ati driver. I also recommend installing a kernel that more closely matches the hardware (k7 and 686 are good choices). You will also want the powernowd program, as this will greatly improve battery life. It smokes any CPU throttle util out there. It even works with Intel speedstep and pentium M chips (I get better battery life under linux than windows, because of this util, and laptopmode, and hdparm -S 24).
As much of a headache this laptop was under linux, the default windows XP home has not been fun either. The default install died after a windows update. After reinstalling it failed again with an ati driver install (old driver worked fine after reinstalling again). System restore failed in both cases.
Drivers for the 64 bit athlons still appears to be spotty under windows (same with my desktop, many games crash under windows), but the hardware is stable under linux, under heavy load, go figure)
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:(I guess I am in for a long haul if I keep this machine. I will give knoppix a try-just the live cd.Dharam ----- Original Message ----- From: Hendrik Schaink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:21 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Kubuntu breezy installI suggest you boot up your laptop using Knoppix. My new Toshiba (!) laptop has an "ATi Radeon Xpress 200M" video card, in addition to ATi USB, ATi IDE, in short, everything except pccard, firewire. I have beenbattling with this laptop for a week now. I have it running -- withhiccups -- Debian sid, i.e. unstable, but the emphasis is on unstable. The only way I could make make the video work was by using the "vesa" xserver. Kubuntu, Suse did not provide a usable system. Also take a look at what I found on while googling for solutions: http://www.google.ca/linux?hl=en&q=%22ati+technologies%22+5a31&btnG=Search&meta= HTH, Hendrik Schaink D Bhardwaj wrote: > Sorry for the delayed response. > This is a new Compaq laptop, Turin64, ATI video. > I tried Suse,Mandriva, Linspire,Ubuntu, Kubuntu. > All resulted in unique problems. Linspire failed miserably. (x86 versions not 64bit) > I prefer to load Kubuntu if I can. > I don't know if the store will take the machine back . > Kubuntu - /etc/init.d/kdm restart responded with Stopping KDM, Starting KDM and back to text mode. > On reboot,it started to 'hang' at the 'checking battery status' step. Had to hit power off/on. > > Should I just buy old/used hardware? > > Dharam > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:25 pm > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Kubuntu breezy install > > > Likely there is a problem with the video drivers. What video card are > you running? > > What happens when you log in as root and then run: > /etc/init.d/kdm restart > > D Bhardwaj wrote: > >>The default install finishes in text mode for some odd reason. I > > tried 4 times using 2 different 'regular' iso's. Last year when I > installed same, it defaulted to KDE at bootup. > >>Dharam > > >>_______________________________________________ >>clug-talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>**Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying_______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
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