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Gateway Computers Solo 5300

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	5219	03-23-2004

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	9.0

Description:	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.
Keywords:	Gateway Solo 5300 Laptop
/sbin/lspci output:	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, 02:26 AM

jpweston

Registered: Mar 2002

Distribution: Slackware 8.1; Debian 3.0

Posts: 222

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r):	2.2.20-idepci
Distribution:	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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