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tuxedo



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

PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:12 pm    Post subject: laptop list Reply with quote

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
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tuxedo



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

PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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..
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flamesfan



Joined: 06 Jul 2006
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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typhon



Joined: 25 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
Location: Germany

PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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]
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vicdigital



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

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:51 pm    Post subject: got mine running frugal instal Reply with quote

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
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roberts



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

PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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lynnloe



Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:00 am    Post subject: up and running Dell Latitude CPi D266xt Reply with quote

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



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

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with 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".
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BeastlyKing



Joined: 09 Aug 2006
Posts: 12

PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:02 pm    Post subject: Thinkpad 600 Reply with quote

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!!
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durbnpoisn



Joined: 16 Aug 2006
Posts: 18

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!!
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TruBlueEQ



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

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:34 am    Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 600 Reply with quote

[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.
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Juanito



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

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:48 am    Post subject: Dell Latitude D400 Reply with quote

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
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roberts



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

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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AndyLowe



Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Posts: 7

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:33 pm    Post subject: DSL-N on a ultraportable laptop Reply with quote

[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.
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AndyLowe



Joined: 20 Nov 2006
Posts: 7

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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