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Gateway Computers Solo 5300
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03-23-2004
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100% of reviewers
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None indicated
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9.0
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Description:
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Gateway Solo 5300 Laptop
CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium III at 650 MHz
Mainboard: Intel 440ZX chip set; PCI Bus version 2.1
Bus Speed: 100-MHz front side bus
BIOS:Phoenix Plug and Play Note BIOS 4.0, SMBIOS 2.3 support
Memory info.:
Synchronous DRAM computer memory
0 MB on-board memory expandable to 512 MB
Two SO-DIMM slots
SO-DIMM sockets accept 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-, 128-, and 256-MB SDRAM modules in any combination.
Use only PC100 memory modules.
Display: 14.1-inch XGA SVGA LCD color display
Max. Resolution: 1024x768
Max. Colors: 262,000
Video card info.:
S3 Savage IX
2X AGP graphics with 8 MB of SGRAM
Supports simultaneous LCD and external monitor.
Audio: ESS ES1980 Maestro-3 (16-bit stereo)
Modem: v.90 56k Winmodem
Keyboard: Full-sized 88-key keyboard with 3 mm travel
Pointing device: EZ-Pad TouchPad
I/O Ports and Connectors:
Parallel port (IEEE compliant)
Serial port
USB port version 1.0
Shared PS/2 port
Headphone port
Line-in port
Microphone port
Composite video out
Docking connector
External monitor
Optional RJ-11 (integrated modem)
Hard drive: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63
Accepts 2.5-inch, 9.5-, and 12.7-mm hard disks.
CDROM drive: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
*** Most of this information can be found on Gateway's website in the support section. The hard drive and cdrom drive info. was pulled from dmesg output.
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Gateway Solo 5300 Laptop
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
00:08.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
00:0d.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01)
01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11)
20:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03)
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03-23-2004, 01:26 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Distribution: Slackware 8.1; Debian 3.0
Posts: 222
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.2.20-idepci
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Distribution:
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Debian 3.0r2 "Woody"
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I've been successful installing many distros on this laptop:
Slackware 8.0, 9.0, 9.1
Mandrake 9.0
Red Hat 8.0
Using RPMs for the lucent winmodem drivers, I was able to get the modem working just fine.
I don't really recommend using a heavy desktop environment with this machine since it only has 8MB of video memory. RH 8.0's "bluecurve" didn't have any problems, but things seem smoother with something light like fluxbox or blackbox.
The machine may come with a built-in network card. I didn't get that, so I'm using a Xircom PCMCIA card, which works just fine.
The touchpad configures just fine and most of the hardware is found and configured on the initial install of most modern (2003/2004) distros.
j.
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