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Compaq Presario 2500 (2570US)

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	3110	01-22-2005

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	10.0

Description:	Most distros detect and install all the hardware at installation, even the infrarred and PCMCIA slots are detected, which surprised me none-the-less. I have installed Knoppix and FC2 on the laptop with only one slight glitch. The integrated video (ATI Radeon IGP 340/5M) is not readily supported by ATI nor Compaq. Compaq doesn't seem to favor anything but Windows since they don't have a single driver for anything else listed. Very frustrating. I currently have the video card working with heavily modified DRI drivers that are available on sourceforge, but they hardly work (ex: 3 FPS in Chromium [comes with FC2]). I wouldn't very much recommend this system for use with Linux to be honest. The two key manufacturers (ATI and Compaq) didn't work too well with it (ATI sends you to Compaq, Compaq has nothing, etc) and made me rather upset. If I find any updates for the 340/5M problem then I might be able to recommend it better. The wireless card works as well, though you will need to use ndiswrapper to get it working properly (at least in my experience, it is the easiest way). Also, the side USB port has been problematic (even while in Windows, leading me to believe it's a board problem not an OS problem). Compaq physical support isn't that grand either, it took them almost a week to convince them that I needed to ship the laptop back, and then another week and a half for them to actually come get it (and they didn't even provide a box, luckily I still had the original packaging [from 8 months prior] in the basement). All in all, I would NOT recommend this product for 'nix use.
Keywords:	Presario 2500 2570US Compaq
/sbin/lspci output:	/sbin/lspci -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller 00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M dmesg -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded ndiswrapper adding bcmwl5.sys wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0b:cd:74:c1:b9 using driver bcmwl5.sys dmesg -------------------------------------------------------------------------- agpgart: Detected Ati IGP345M chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 380M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd4000000 (See here it detects the chip but doesn't allow the use of it's associated driver nor the compatible driver [ATI Radeon Mobility U1] which is frustrating to say the least).

Author

01-22-2005, 06:29 PM

CyberDoc

Registered: Oct 2003

Distribution: Ubuntu Server 7.04

Posts: 41

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.8.1-12mdk
Distribution:	mandrake 10.1

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compaq 2500
i found that when i used mandrake 9.0 i could only install it using noauto option. Which was about worthless nothing was detected. But after downloading 10.1 and going through a seemless installing procedure everything is up and running pcmcia,Ati video,firewire,infared,modem all of it. i even have my motorla wn825g pcmcia wireless running. i would recommend this laptop for use at least with mandrake 10.1 I have not one problem to to report with this version.

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