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One of the line of Presario 1200's. This is the European addition. The model number is on the bottom sticker, not the top right corner which is only the series number.
It comes with an AMD Athlon 1Ghz processor, 192 MB of RAM, an ATI Rage Mobility graphics processor (with 8MB Video RAM) and onboard sound (provided by a VIA VT82C686 AC'97 chip). It comes with a 15 gig hard drive which is initially split in two like a lot of Compaq laptops. A good 2-3 gigs is set aside under windows for Compaq's system restore. I suggest re-partitioning since I'm finding it a little tight when so much is left to windows. It has two PCMCIA slots, onboard ethernet and modem, serial and parallel port, PS/2 port, VGA and composite video out.
The laptop is good sturdy thing with good speakers making it an ideal linux machine. Its a bit bulky and the keyboard gets some getting used to but it runs well under linux. The compaq keyboard is one of the choices under the X.org configuration, the graphics chip is well supported as well and so is the sound. Everything works. Took me a while to figure out the network card which is identified as a Conexant HCF modem/ethernet card but after looking at some other linux sites, I gave the tulip driver a go with modprobe tulip and it works fine. I haven't tried the modem yet.
The PCMCIA slots work fine and were detected automatically by Slackware for me. The sound chip needs the VIA 82C686A/B, 8233 South Bridge driver which is under Device Drivers -> Sound -> ALSA -> PCI devices
The disk drives support up to 66Mhz bus speed so I suggest adding ide-bus=66 to lilo or grub for your kernel's append line. That should give you a slight speed boost.
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presario compaq 1200 1215EU laptop
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 10)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Conexant HCF 56k Modem (rev 08)
00:09.1 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Modem (rev 05)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
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