Re: linux laptop help

["Sriram" <sriram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thats a lot of information ravi. thank you. i feel quite spiked up by your
words now. i better try it myself. my ibm thinkpad is an i series with a P
II 266 and 96 MB RAM. i have been able to install linux on the laptop and it
dual boots without any problems. the x is too configured. the problem is
sound and pcmcia devices. the problem i suspect is some irq clash. when my
sound card initialises the pcmcia fails. when i even try playing sound the
machine hangs and refuses to do anything.

the sites u had given r quite familiar to me. i have gathered lots of
information from there. so u right in that aspect.

sriram


----- Original Message -----
From: RAVIKANT K RAO <ravikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ravikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: linux laptop help


> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Sriram wrote:
>
> > has anyone configured a linux on laptop?
>
> <_VERY_ surprised>
>
> !!!!.... wow... OF COURSE !!!
> As a matter of fact , during one of my many jobless querying Altavista , I
> did some Laptop+Linux+Web Server or some such thing and discovered that
> there are quite a few web servers/mail server etc etc running Linux and
> its variants and FBSD , NetBSD etc on laptop's ... As a matter of fact ,
> my Compaq Armada 1700 Laptop Currently Dual boots between RedHat 6.1 (
> Courtesy Dr Sriram , thanks ;-) and Win 98 . Should soon be triple booting
> w/ an option to Debian 2.1 as well ;)
>
>
> > i have an ibm thinkpad. it has a 3com 10/100 mbps card and a billionton
56 modem. both pcmcia devices. i am having problems configuring it. i am not
sure if i am doing it right. but i followed the instructions that i have
seen in how to's.
>
> IBM thinkpads are possibly the _BEST_ supported laptop's under linux ,
> info as gathered from threads on LI ; I'm 101% sure Atul Chitnis (LI)
> would agree with this , ....
>
> As a matter of fact , my brother is also running RedHat 6.0 on his
> ThinkPad 650 C ...
>
> My friend in Delhi is using 3com cards too ... networked some 11 boxes of
> his , all running various O/S-es ... ( the guy that's running
> www.kapil.com -> That machine itself is running Linux , I believe ) ...
> Apparently 3com cards are well supported , I'm planning to get one myself.
>
> > any clues ?
>
> It would help lots more if you define what your "problems" are...
>
> try $ man cardmgr and $ man cardctl
>
>
> > i am willing to bring it to someone's place who can show me how to do it
as well as does it there. would this be a good idea?
>
> <rant>
>
> ha! MISTAKE !!! If prabhu/arun remember , I posted a very similar mail to
> their respective mail addresses when I was a newbie telling them I would
> even move my gigantic desktop all teh way to their homes w/ bribes if they
> would install linux for me , and prabhu replied , telling me to do it
> myself , read metalab.unc.edu/LDP and THEN post queries to the list ...
> and that I wouldnt learn anything if I got others to do stuff for me (
> which Is true , I've had RH 5.2 on my system for eons , from about 1 week
> the day it released , but heck , I didnt know what to do with , neither
> did I Care ... ) ... I _WAS_ annoyed then , because prabhu did'nt "help"
> me , but I _now_ realise what a world of good it did to me ... So do the
> whole thing yourself. FYI I installed RH 6.0 on my laptop when I had
> exposure to RH on my desktop for precisely 3 weeks... I suppose you've had
> more exposure hey?
>
> </rant>
>
>    That apart , Its very very sad to see that you've not done your
> homework at all ... :-(
>
> <desparation>
>
> Please Please in gods name go look at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP ... there
> is a section there for "Linux on Laptop's" ...which will re-direct you to
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/   <- This is what you
> want.
>
> </desparation>
>
>   It's a _BEAUTIFULLY_ made section , documenting very many variants of
> Laptops ,...dealing w/ possibly any and every known characteristic of
> laptops... So read that site thoroughly, read HOWTO's specific to laptops
> (given on that site) and try to self-diagnose etc...and then post to the
> list.
>   One piece of info that worked for me which I guess i'll tell you ... in
> all my installations of linux on my laptop , ranging from RH 6.0 , Debian
> 2.1 , RH 6.1 in that order ... I discovered that RH 6.1 gives you the best
> X server version of them all ... 3.3.3 or something , which gives me
> better support for my monitor which is a 15" active matrix LCD Display ,
> TFT or some random junk that I never cared for...
>   _I_ choose my monitor to be "LCD Panel 1024x768" which gives me the
> _best_ resolution , etc etc ... I have no clue what yours is / what you
> should choose , but you should experiment.
>   IMO , you should download the latest X server - stable is 3.3.6 or
> something , and unstable is 3.9.16 or something , which is what I'm
> wgetting right now , as I type this...
>
> ----
> --23:03:16--
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com:21/.1/XFree86/snapshots/3.9.16/source/X3916src-1.tgz
>   (try: 2) => `X3916src-1.tgz'
> ==> CWD not required.
> ==> PORT ... done.    ==> REST 7877080 ... done.
> ==> RETR X3916src-1.tgz ... done.
> Length: 18,368,744 [10,491,664 to go] (unauthoritative)
>
> 7850K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... [ 44%]
> ----
>
> After a woeful 40 hours + online spread over 4 days , I've got only 44%
> :-( ... maybe aero.iitm.ernet.in would want to download some similar thing
> or someone else on an ISDN line or something and put it up in some common
> machine publicly accessible and the machine be local so that transfer
> would be faster...(?) That's _my_ suggestion and I hope something comes of
> it... All I can say right now is that , once I get the whole file , I am
> willing to put it on my machine in /public or some place so that you can
> dial into 821 1877 and i'll give you anonymous ftp so you wget this file
> from t-nagar , much faster  [ and no . before you get any ideas , I am
> _NOT_ gonna pull out this HDD so you can plug it in and transfer in 20
> seconds... ;P ] ...of course after someone helps me configure PPP dial-up
> into my m/c ;-)
>
>   The funda is , the video card here , Trident T 9750 2 MB AGP is
> supposed to MUCH better supported on 3.3.5 and this is currently 3.3.2 or
> so ... with noticeably better support than 2.0.36 ... that's why I'm
> wgetting it ...[ That was for some other person on this list that had a
> Trident Card and said they had a bad looking X ... solution -> download
> the latest stable ver of X server ... ]
>
>   Anyway, you should also check out the archives of the debian-laptop
> mailng list , http://lists.debian.org/ and maybe sign up for it too , and
> post a query there , AFTER checking out archives ... the stuff there _is_
> debian specific ... but hey, debian is linux too ;-)
>
>   Finally , here's wishing you good luck w/ your laptop-linux ... ( I had
> heard stories about how Linux has lousier USB Support or something , but
> truthfully speaking , I couldnt care...it works just fine on mine :- )
>
>   To quote Ingrid S Asha ,Member of Technical Support RedHat Inc.,
>
>  " Tips/Pointers are free ; Support isn't "
>
>   So if you're thinking of hauling your laptop to some dude's place to get
> stuff done , remember that bribes are in order ;-)
>
>   Have a nice day :-)
>
> - Ravi.
>
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