HP PAvilion 8560c

kkathman · 11-08-2003, 04:54 PM

Does anyone have any history or experience with Linux on an HP Pavilion 8560C (Celeron) computer and running Linux on it? I just kinda inherited it. Right now it has WinXP on it, but I'd probably just wipe it clean and install Linux on it it that works.

Thanks
Kork

bacomage1 · 11-08-2003, 06:04 PM

Well, I recently came into posession of an HP Pavillion 4450, and it's perfectly Linux compatible (a lot faster than the Windows 98 se it was running before). I assume that you shouldn't have any trouble, considering how versatile linux is (timex once got it to operate on a wristwach). Try it out, I'm sure you won't have any big problems unless you're using an internal 56k modem.

kkathman · 11-08-2003, 06:13 PM

Kewl..thats neat to know..this is kind of an older box, but I think I'll try Mandrake on it and see what happens. I read somewhere that HP used this weird kind of video board on their pavilions, but since you didnt have any probs, maybe it will be ok.

If anyone else has any knowledge of this computer, please let me know. It has a cd rom, cd-rw and a DVD ROM in it too!

Kork

bacomage1 · 11-08-2003, 06:19 PM

Actually, I forgot that I had some HUGE display issues when I first booted up xwindows in Mandrake 9.1, using KDE 3.1. The left side of the screen was ok, but the further to the right I looked, things began to "double up" in a weird way and vertical allignments were all wrong. I had to get into the mandrake config unit almost completely blindly, then configure my monitor and change my resolution. Past that, no problems, except some typical and infrequent ps2 mouse issues.

kkathman · 11-08-2003, 07:44 PM

So did you have to go into XFREE and change it? Sounds like it might have been a montor issue, and Im not using the HP monitor..its just a high quality NEC Multisync. I guess I'll find out when I try to install

Kork

bacomage1 · 11-09-2003, 12:13 AM

Nope, just into the mandrake control center. Actually, it might have been, considering I couldn't read anything and had to guess by icons and relative position. I wasn't using an hp monitor either. Just a generic Dell CRT monitor that came with my dimension 400c.