You can find several pages on the Internet talking about running Linux on
Compaq Presario laptops. But I didn't find anything dealing with the 907. So, after several hard nights, here it is :-) First, a little presentation of the hardware :
· Athlon XP 1500+ PowerNow !
· 14.1 TFT XGA
· 256 Mo DDR
· 20 Go
· DVD 8x
· Realtek 8139 network adapter
· ALi M5451 audio controller
· ATI Radeon Mobility U1 video controller
To boot the RedHat 9.0 installation CD, you'll need to specify "
pci=off" in the kernel options, else the CD won't be detected... After that, everything is quite simple and you shouldn't need help.
I had a hard time running everything in the same time without any kernel panic ! So with this
2.4.21 based kernel and this
.config file, you can use :
· ACPI
· USB
· Sound
· CD/DVD
· Video acceleration
· Network
· modem
(not tested)
Life is great, huh ? ;-) After compiling and installing your new kernel, don't forget to add a new entry in your
/etc/grub.conf (LILO definitely sucks !) with all thoses strange options (several of them are probably useless, but after so much hours lost, I consider it's ok for me :-) :
title my_kernel (2.4.21-acpi)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21 ro root=LABEL=/ devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi noathlon nobiospnp pci=biosirq ide=nodma nomce idebus=66 nousb
initrd /initrd-2.4.21.img
You can then unregister Kudzu (I get kernel panics with it) :
chkconfig kudzu off
Then, at last, uses these
Radeon drivers for Xfree 4.3.0 (taken from
here) to get video acceleration, and use the "
radeon" driver in
/etc/X11/XF86Config.
Enjoy :-)
