Compaq Presario R3418EA Notebook PC
 

Yes.. i finally got a laptop :)

..now.. does anyone else got that laptop and uses linux ? What kind of distro do you use? does it work flawless ? i really wanna get rid of the XP Home crap .. need some linux BUT it have to work 100% with my laptop .. suggestions ?

And here is a product url ( swedish ) http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/se/sv...-26736379.html

Welcome to the club! :)
After taking a quick look on the info I'd say you have the exact same computer as I have, only with Compaq branding instead of HP (my is a HP nx9105).

Some resources:
- My initial install review: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat=521&page=1
- The Compaq R3000 series mailing list
- The R3000 wiki

The mailing list archives and wiki should provide you with most of the information you will need. Please feel free to join the list!


Håkan

tnx for that !

really cool with a mailing list for the R3000 laptop .. i have subscribed !

hmm.. starting a slackware 10.1 install on my laptop right now .. is it necessary to get the 2.6 kernel to get everything to work or could i stick to the default 2.4 ?

The 2.6 series kernels provide a lot better support for the hardware in the R3000 series compared to the 2.4. Support for ACPI (important!), CPU throttling (using the powernow-k8 module on the R3000 even if you have an "Athlon XP" CPU) Firewire, and so on have made great strides since 2.4. There is really no reason to run a 2.4 kernel on a laptop unless you are tied to an application that requires a 2.4 kernel.


Håkan (oh, and go Skeå!)