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The author disclaims all warranties with regard to this document, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a certain purpose; in no event shall the author be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use of this document. Read and use this document at your own risk! This is a survey about Linux related hardware features of the Presario 2800. I don't try to explain the usual installation details (for instance, which partitions I have made).

Frank Herrmann <herrmann.frank_at_gmx.de>

Installation

I installed SuSE 8.0(http://www.suse.de) and later SuSE 8.1(http://www.suse.de) Linux distribution. Installation (DVD) works seamless.

Drivers

Keyboard

If you would like to use the special ("easy access") buttons download and install LinEAK(http://lineak.sourceforge.net). Here is the part of my lineakd.conf: 


# LinEAK Configuration file for Compaq Easy Access Key 2800(6 keys)

# Global settings
KeyboardType            = CIKP800
CdromDevice             = /dev/cdrom
MixerDevice             = /dev/mixer

# Specific keys of your keyboard
internet        = xosview
search          = kfind
mail            = kmail
multimedia      = "artsdsp xmms"
voldown         = "aumix -v -2"
volup           = "aumix -v +2"

# end lineakd.conf

Synaptics Touchpad

Eduardo Alvarez Guzman <ealvarez_at_cicese.mx> informed me that there is a special Synaptics-Touchpad driver(http://www.compass.com/synaptics/) for supporting special features of those pads under linux. Please note that you have to configure the device before starting the X-Window-System because at the moment ps/2-sharing is not supported. There is also a kernel patch(http://www.compass.com/tpconfig/kernel-2.2.17-psaux-exclusive.patch) which provides the needed mechanism for shared access.

Modem

You can find linux drivers for the modem here(http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/archive/). File which I can report to work is hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02072100.tar.gz.

Network Adapter

Driver is part of the standard kernel, e.g. 2.4.18:

Network device support ->
Ethernet (10 or 100 MBit) ->
EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers ->
EtherExpressPro/100 support

You can also find (newer) linux drivers for the e100 from Intel(http://www.intel.com/). File which I can report to work is e100-2.1.6.tar.gz.

PCMCIA

A PCMCIA-WLAN-card works perfectly for me.

Sound

Driver is part of the standard kernel, e.g. 2.4.18:

Sound ->
Intel ICH (i8xx) audio support

Infrared Port - IrDA(TM)

FIR: Sorry no tests yet. (please report your experience here !)

SIR: Sorry no tests yet. (please report your experience here !)

Floppydrive

No comment. 

ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv

CD-Writer

Standard SCSI-Emulation ("insmod ide-scsi") shows: 

  scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: DVD-ROM SD-R2102  Rev: 1A16
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02

USB (Mouse, Keyboard)

Driver is part of the standard kernel, e.g. 2.4.18:

USB Support ->
Support for USB -->
OHCI

Note: I have an external USB keyboard attached to my Compaq, so I also need HID support:

USB Support ->
USB-Human interface devices --> ...

X Windows



Using ati driver

If the notebook displays a weird striped image you have to set the appropriate driver option for TFT-Screen (see XF86Config-file below).
Thanks to Gurvan Huiban <gugu_at_netcourrier.com> for resolving this issue! 

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
  ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
  RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "speedo"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "Keyboard"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "de"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/pointer1"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "ps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/pointer0"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
        VendorName   "LGP"
        ModelName    "6e54"
        Option      "DPMS"
        HorizSync       28-49
        VertRefresh     43-60
EndSection

Section "Modes"
  Identifier 	"Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "Radeon Mobility M7 LW"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "ati"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"           "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"          "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"           "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"           "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForcePCIMode"      "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"         "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"             # <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"                   # <i>
        #Option     "AGPSize"                   # <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"                  # <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"                # <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"  "True"  # [<bool>]
        Option     "CrtScreen"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"         "True"  # [<str>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"          "True"  # [<bool>]
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option        "AGPMode" "1"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "ATI"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Using VESA Framebuffer

If you prefer using slow (but stable) VESA mode this is my XF86Config (V4): 

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
  ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
  RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "Keyboard"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "de"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/pointer1"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "ps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/pointer0"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
  DisplaySize  300 220
  HorizSync    30-33
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "Unknown"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "Unknown"
  VertRefresh  43-72
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
  Identifier 	"Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "default"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "Radeon LW"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "fbdev"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option        "AGPMode" "1"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "ATI"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

complete survey PCI Devices

Output from lspci: 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LW
02:04.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) Chipset Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
02:0e.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:0e.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:0e.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02)

Note

As I am short of time at the moment this document should be considered as incomplete and error-prone. Please dont hesitate to send your corrections/hints/additions to <herrmann.frank_at_gmx.de>!

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