Compaq Presario 920 & Linux

Spooky · 04-17-2003, 11:51 AM

Does anyone have instaled yet any distro sucessefuly into this laptop? Redhat 9.0 Mandrake 9.1? I have instaled parcialy sucessefuly the Mandrake 9.0 but this new one that suposebly would work just fine does not even let me start the install process

! Does anyone have experienced any install with M9.1 in this Laptop? Any sugestions?

Sp0okY OuT

finegan · 04-21-2003, 06:28 PM

What problems are you having during installation? The biggest issue with the recent-ish Compaqs is their use of Trident Cyber(blah) video cards that weren't supported well in X-windows until 4.2.1 and 4.3.0, which means: Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 respectively. Got a laundry list of its innards:

Also might want to check:

www.linux-laptop.net

Cheers,

Finegan

Spooky · 04-22-2003, 09:54 AM

Here's what i found about my problem ...

Quote:

"Upon booting the install CD, if you choose the default boot command linux, then the system will get to the beginning of Anaconda before freezing just after PCMCIA detection. This is due to a bug in the kernel related to the ALI southbridge. To continue the installation, at the prompt instead type linux pci=off and press enter. Installation should continue normally. Make sure you choose a text mode login, for xfree86 will not work without some tweaking "

some more info... (about Redhat 8.0)
http://www.wsu.edu/~ice124/

i'll report back when i have some more info ... if anyone has this kind of laptop and tryed Mand 8.1 or other distro please report back to me ...

Spooky · 04-23-2003, 04:32 AM

My Mandrake is working use the commands when you press f1 at the start of the installation process and type "linux noauto nomce" and it will work fine with sound and usb ... the special keys and the power tools have to be installed... with a patch...

Spooky OuT !

rimar · 10-06-2003, 10:32 AM

hi! I have a compaq presario 920 and I can't install neither red hat 9 or mandrake 9.1

I already tried the option "linux noauto nomce", but after configure the mouse it says that had a hardware problem and stop installing. Can you help me please

finegan · 10-06-2003, 10:52 PM

I'm poking around some pages on 900 series Compaqs and it looks like they have a 100% ACPI bios that has real issues with kernels that have no ACPI, also there's going to be issues with the ATI card. I would normally ask for an /sbin/lspci listing with these, but let's make certain we're talking the same machine here. What's the Vid card, chip, sound, and drive type?

Cheers,

Finegan

rimar · 10-07-2003, 03:49 AM

Hi!

Technical Specs:
Compaq Presario 920EA
AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2000+
256 Mb RAM
30 Gb HD
ATI Mobility Radeon U1/IGP320M

I get the follow message during the installation:
"Can't find device for filesystems", but it's before the partitions.

Please help me

Spooky · 06-23-2004, 04:53 AM

It got me same problem with Mandrake 10 install and it was solved by not selecting any mouse device ... don't ask way but if u select one ... or not other than Universial driver it gives me that error...

i can't install the mouse after that ... it doesn't work