Libranet on laptop?

marcoc · 12-04-2003, 05:24 AM

Hello!

I am buying a laptop (Gericom Hummer 2640), and I am in need to install linux on it. Since I've played a bit with Libranet (the version with free download) with my PC and I liked it, I'm wondering if it could be a good distro also on portable computers. Anyone did install it on a laptop?

Thanks in advance for any info!

All the best,

riddlebox80 · 12-04-2003, 12:19 PM

I have it on a compaq 715us laptop and it runs great acpi was a little choppy for a bit I just upgraded my kernel and installed the newest acpi patches from acpi.sourceforge.net and it ran great. If you are unsure if linux will run on the laptop try knoppix or even www.linux-on-laptops.com

uteck · 12-05-2003, 02:45 PM

I am running it on a Compaq 2700 and it works okay. I am using the latest 2.6 kernel with Andrew Morten's mm patches to get ACPI working, but I still can't suspend.
The 2.4.x kernel work fine, but no ACPI.

riddlebox80 · 12-05-2003, 06:30 PM

uteck,
where and what are Andrew Morten's mm patches for ACPI?

uteck · 12-06-2003, 12:01 PM

Andrew Morten is the number 2 guy working on the 2.6 kernel under Linus. He makes some unoffical patches that eventually be come offical that can be found here.
When 2.6 becomes stable he will be the maintainer while Linus works on 2.7.

mi6 · 12-17-2003, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by uteck
I am running it on a Compaq 2700 and it works okay. I am using the latest 2.6 kernel with Andrew Morten's mm patches to get ACPI working, but I still can't suspend.
The 2.4.x kernel work fine, but no ACPI.

Well I have a Compaq 2715 and am working with the 2.4.23 kernel and ACPI is running fine for me. I haven't tried any suspend capability yet, but batt, thermal, proc, ac, etc are working. I may give the 2.6 kernel a shot if I get some spare time...

uteck · 12-18-2003, 11:56 AM

Just to update things, I installed 2.6-test11 and it works great. ACPI and hibrinate work fine, although the batteries (main and a spare that can replace the floppy) are not all ways detected if I boot with the power cable pluged in, so ACPI is not 100% but close enough.