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Subject: Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Hirling Endre <endre@interware.hu>
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On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:30, Hirling Endre wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:00, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
> > I'm writing this in Compaq Presario 900Z which seems to be similar to your Evo
> > 1015v. After installing RedHat 7.3 with nomce, nopci, etc. I've disabled kudzu and
> > then compiled 2.4.20+ac2+acpi-20021212-2.4.20 with sound and IDE fixes. Now I have
> > UDMA IDE, sound, and 802.11b with prism card (actually I'm writing this at home on
> 
> What IDE controller is in the 900z? I have a fujitsu notebook with the
> igp320m chipset and ali southbridge and 2.5 can't do udma. 2.4 can but
> crashes often.

Its an ALI 1535 southbridge with built in IDE DMA support. The 900Z basically 
requires you run 2.4.21pre3-ac5, probably the ACPI patches on top of that
and also pcmcia excludes correctly configured to avoid 0x380-0x3ff

In paticular you can boot with "nomce" but if you do that and don't deal with
the real problems may get some nasty suprises

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