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Compaq Presario 705 EA

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	6050	07-04-2005

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	$900.00	9.0

Description:	I've managed to get this laptop to work successfully with many distributions, and I'm currently posting this from it via an ethernet connection to my router! I have used SUSE 9.1 Professional, Fedora Core 2 & 3, Knoppix, and Ubuntu on this laptop and they have all worked smoothly. I had some trouble configuring my cd drive in Fedora Core, but then again, I think that Fedora is a load of ***. :D Known to work: Video card, sound card, ethernet, USB, all other ports, CD-RW/DVD drive, PCMCIA, etc... * Untried: Modem, inbuilt network card (mine is broken!).
Keywords:	Compaq Presario Laptop Linux Compatible
/sbin/lspci output:	jk9@ubuntu:~$ lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 80) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 42) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) 0000:00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01) 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8636A [ProSavage KN133] AGP4X VGA Controller (TwisterK) (rev 01) 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 11)

Author

07-04-2005, 05:13 PM

J_K9

Registered: Nov 2004

Distribution: Slackware 11, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Posts: 700

Thanked: 0

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $900.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.10-5-386
Distribution:	Ubuntu

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Everything worked pretty darn well, except that I can't try out the inbuilt ethernet card (because it's broken). I haven't tried the modem either, so I'm not too sure about that, but everything else from the sound right down to the USB ports all work!

J_K9

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