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I just thought I would share some info about my MEPIS install. The version I installed was 3.3.1-1
I have had a bit of trouble finding a distro that worked on this machine. I had tried Mandriva, but it would freeze on shutdown or restart, and there was no fix for it - the only effective fix for those kinds of errors that I found was "choose another distro". So this post is mainly to say that MEPIS will work with this brand of laptop.
Only one of point of concern though - and maybe it's because I've only been using Linux for 2 days, but it seemed worth documenting to me:
During the install, when you get to Display Driver, if you click the ATI drivers option instead of the default drivers, you may be forced into a text-only mode. This happened to me, and I could find no way to get the GUI to start up. It may actually be better to start with the 'default drivers' and handle this issue seperately. I used defaults, booted in via GUI, and finished the configuration (set up net connection, email, etc.) Then, I used the instructions below for installing the ATI drivers:
1. Open Mepis OS Center.
2. Go to Mouse and Display section.
3. Go to ATI tab.
4. Select Official ATI fglrx driver and click Apply (you need internet connection).
5. Wait till the driver is downloaded, on slow connection be prepared to wait about 1 hour.
6. Restart computer when done.
How to repair, in case KDE refuses to start (computer boots to text prompt):
1. Boot CD
2. Log in as root
3. Click on "Install Me"
4. Select from "Repair" category: "Reinstall X config file"
Aside from this extra step, which may or may not be necessary for you, the entire install was flawless.
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laptop 4300 mobility hewlett packard
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/sbin/lspci output:
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link
Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller 0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000
Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
U1
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cCFE575CT CardBus
[Cyclone](rev 10)
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08-06-2005, 02:40 AM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1
Posts: 4
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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2.6.10
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MEPIS 3.3.1-1
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During the install, when you get to Display Driver, if you click the ATI drivers option instead of the default drivers, you may be forced into a text-only mode. This happened to me, and I could find no way to get the GUI to start up. It may actually be better to start with the 'default drivers' and handle this issue seperately. I used defaults, booted in via GUI, and finished the configuration (set up net connection, email, etc.) Then, I used the instructions below for installing the ATI drivers:
1. Open Mepis OS Center.
2. Go to Mouse and Display section.
3. Go to ATI tab.
4. Select Official ATI fglrx driver and click Apply (you need internet connection).
5. Wait till the driver is downloaded, on slow connection be prepared to wait about 1 hour.
6. Restart computer when done.
How to repair, in case KDE refuses to start (computer boots to text prompt):
1. Boot CD
2. Log in as root
3. Click on "Install Me"
4. Select from "Repair" category: "Reinstall X config file"
Aside from this extra step, which may or may not be necessary for you, the entire install was flawless.
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