QNX on the COMPAQ LTE Elite 4/75 CX Laptop

Preface

This is a short survey about QNX realtime OS related hardware features of the COMPAQ LTE Elite 4/75CX. For hardware details look at my Linux on the COMPAQ LTE Elite 4/75 CX.

Installation

I took the demo image from QNX unzipped it to a floppy and could easily boot from it. Sorry I have forgotten to take a note about the version number. I guess it was 4.0.

Display

Driver vga4 works only with 640x480 4-bit 16 colors.

PCMCIA Modem

Thought I tried different COM ports and IRQ IO combinations I couldn't get it to work.

Other Resources

• Unix Laptop Survey
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers