Who else is running Linux on a Compaq?

Kramer · 10-04-2003, 05:51 PM

Ive got a Compaq 722US, and these are my specs...

Compaq Presario 722US
Toshiba MK2018GAS 20 gig HD
Toshiba SD-R2102 CD-RW/DVD
Phoenix BIOS
AMD Athlon 1.1Ghz CPU
256 Meg RAM
16 Meg Twister K Graphics card

Has anyone else gotten the ACPI support to work on their Compaq? Ive wrestled with the beast for about the past month or more trying to get it to work, and I always seem to come to a dead end. I cant get it to work to save my life. I was hoping someone else out there had this kind of laptop, and has it working, so mabye they can tell me what Im missing. Thanks in advance.

Paulox · 10-05-2003, 04:16 PM

Hi Kramer,

I own a Compaq 1712TC but I can understand you rproblem with ACPI. The problem is that it seems ACPI is very badly supported on such laptops.

You still can get some informations on http://acpid.sourceforge.net/

Otherelse, for blacklisted laptops, like mine, you can boot with the pci=nacpi argument.

Let me know if I can help you.

Regards,

Paulox

Kramer · 10-05-2003, 05:06 PM

The main trouble I have is it gets to where it says
"Looking for DSDT tables, not found!"
Im not sure what the DSDT tables are, but that causes my laptop to freeze every time without fail. I imagine this has something to do with ACPI, since this is in the process of starting it when I boot into text mode. Any ideas?

P.S. How can you control your fans and monitor your temperature without using ACPI? Mine isnt listed on the blacklist on the sourceforge website.

Kramer · 10-05-2003, 05:31 PM

http://www.amdmb.com/article-display...D=192&PageID=4

In this link, the guy doing the review says he got the laptop to run ACPI after patching the kernel on Redhat 7.3. That tells me that it works for sure, but that Im definitely doing something wrong

wojteek · 10-06-2003, 02:58 PM

I'm running Redhat 9 on:

Compaq Armada 3500
PII 300 512Kb cache
hdd: IBM travelstar 6 gig
C&T 2mb graphics card
PCMCIA cdrom and nic

I use APM and it works fine, but I'm going to install Slack 9.1 and maybe I'll try ACPI during configuring my own kernel

I'm newbie...it might be stupid....maybe try APM (and maybe other distro - redhat is weird.....imho)

Pierre Baco · 10-07-2003, 03:05 AM

I'm using Mandrake 9.1 on a Compaq Presario 702EA. No need to patch or anything else.

ACPI won't help to cool down the laptop (fan/cpu/disk), but at least it works for halt/reboot.

Btw, ACPI is poorly handled by the Compaq BIOS!!

Kramer · 10-07-2003, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pierre Baco
I'm using Mandrake 9.1 on a Compaq Presario 702EA. No need to patch or anything else.

ACPI won't help to cool down the laptop (fan/cpu/disk), but at least it works for halt/reboot.

Btw, ACPI is poorly handled by the Compaq BIOS!!

No need to patch? I was told I had to patch. How do you keep you laptop from overheating if it doesnt help cool? Also, which BIOS are you using? Heck, Ill venture the question of how did you get it working, since I cant?

Pierre Baco · 10-08-2003, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kramer
No need to patch? I was told I had to patch. How do you keep you laptop from overheating if it doesnt help cool? Also, which BIOS are you using? Heck, Ill venture the question of how did you get it working, since I cant?

My Compaq has a Phoenix Bios v4.60. I installed a MDK 9.1 straight out of the box. Previous versions (8.x) needed a patch in order to halt/reboot properly (laptop was freezing, and you had to press the power button at least 5 secs to reboot/halt it).

Now acpid (no apmd) can also generate an event when pwr button is pressed, or when laptop is closed, or when battery gets low. It's up to you to write the appropriate script if you really want to handle those events (including software suspend). I wrote a little one to simply "halt" the system when battery is really low.

Concerning overheating, I really don't know how to handle it. Tried to play with kernel options (see "General Setup" in kernel config), but didn't help. My 702EA becomes rather hot after a while, but what's "over" heating anyway ? I never had a problem with this (up to now, after more than a year 1/2). The two little "feet" under the laptop help to keep the air flowing below the case.

Kramer · 10-08-2003, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pierre Baco
My Compaq has a Phoenix Bios v4.60. I installed a MDK 9.1 straight out of the box. Previous versions (8.x) needed a patch in order to halt/reboot properly (laptop was freezing, and you had to press the power button at least 5 secs to reboot/halt it).

Now acpid (no apmd) can also generate an event when pwr button is pressed, or when laptop is closed, or when battery gets low. It's up to you to write the appropriate script if you really want to handle those events (including software suspend). I wrote a little one to simply "halt" the system when battery is really low.

Concerning overheating, I really don't know how to handle it. Tried to play with kernel options (see "General Setup" in kernel config), but didn't help. My 702EA becomes rather hot after a while, but what's "over" heating anyway ? I never had a problem with this (up to now, after more than a year 1/2). The two little "feet" under the laptop help to keep the air flowing below the case.

I think we have the same BIOS, Ill have to check the next time I start mine up. Did you ever get the same error message Im getting? Mine always says "starting acpid: failed, cant open /proc/acpi/events"