I did a hd install of Knoppix on a Gateway 400 SD and it works great. I have two issues, first I have to use the noscsi cheat code and i have to shutdown in a shell or it will hang. Other than that it works great.
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I did a hd install of Knoppix on a Gateway 400 SD and it works great. I have two issues, first I have to use the noscsi cheat code and i have to shutdown in a shell or it will hang. Other than that it works great.
Try either noapm or noacpi to see if that helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by solfrio
I have installed Knoppix 3.2 on a ECS Desknote A907 (with Transmeta processor)
Runs fine. Very cheap laptop : I have paid 516,- euro
Knoppix 3.2 works well on the Desknote 901A. There is a sound problem with the trident driver (possibly caused by interference from the CD-ROM?) so using the nosound cheatcode at bootup is recommended. The problem does not affect hard drive intstalls.
ACER TM661: (CPU Centrino 1.4 GHz, RAM 512 MB, 14" Display)
Works OK with Knoppix 3.3, even the BM440 10/100 ethernet card.
PS: I have not tried the IR and WiFi connection.
I just got it working on my new ECS A929 desknote.
had to use the cheatcode
knoppix noapic
or else the sis900 NIC would not work.
I installed Knoppix 3.3 on my Acer Travelmate 800lci, and it works great!. I even got the Centrino wireless network card using the Linuxant driver loader, and the suspend to disk using the swsusp patch.
Great job guys!
Hp Pavilion ze5385us
Knoppix v3.3 CD boot.
All but ACPI works..... and eh... who need a battery monitor if I'm booting off the cd? (Well, I do. But I can't complain!)
Compaq Presario 700/710/722US (three seperate laptops, only difference is onboard ram and processor speed, go figure)
Knoppix itself works perfectly from the get-go, no cheatcodes. Only problem is lack of acpi, since these laptops are 100% acpi.
That means no battery status (it says On AC, no battery all the time,) it runs really, really hot, and the fans run at full speed constantly.
I assume if you install it to the hd and get the kernel acpi diff, it will work (or so I've read)
My laptop is a Presario 710US motherboard with slower proc (friend ran over hers with a car, I got it for parts and made mine better!) so the specs are:
AMD Duron 900 M, 64K cache
512MB of ram with 16MB shared for video (love the 710 motherboard :D )
20GB hd
Onboard realtec nic
Onboard HCF 56K soft-modem
DVD-rom
I'll be installing it to the hard drive probably later today (have to get a friend to download and burn 20031103, i don't have broadband :( ) and I'll report back with my success or failure with acpi!
Completly new to Linux as of last week sunday.
Over 2 weekends I did various HD installations with Knoppix 3.3 on a couple of very old laptops, a Gateway solo 9300 (433Mhz celeron [Mendicino], 288M ram) and an IBM 770 (233Mhz, 128M ram).
The 770 was from a friend and had the original Modem ripped out so I couldn't test that.
The Solo has a built in winmodem So I needed to by a new PCMCIA modem.
Other than that I had no problems at all. Pretty much everything is supported (You need to start the IBM with the fb1024x768 cheat when booting from the cd).
I still haven't tested Firewire on the Gateway though.
While I was installing Knoppix on the laptops I thought I would give RH 9.1 a run on my desktop PC. It took all of 30 minutes for me to delete that install Knoppix over there also.