Compaq 2195US???

Borosai · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 59

Does anybody have Gentoo installed on this laptop or a Compaq similar to the specs on this one? I am considering getting it, but want to make sure it has some sort of success rate. And if so, any issues? Thanks. :?:

Uffe · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 14

I got a Compaq 2195US a couple of weeks ago. Seemed like a good deal and so far I love it. It took some poking and proding to get the various devices to work but I've got everything I need working now. I'm running kernel gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r1.

Working:
- Radeon 320m IGP direct rendering with patch to xfree-4.3.99 (disabled, see suspend note)
- Synaptics touchpad under XFree86 using driver from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
- cpufreq 'powernow!' power management with cpudyn and powernow-k7 with a small hack to recognize PST - I drop to 1126 MHz to compile because the CPU hits 80C at which point I get a little worried

- audio using ALi M5451 under ALSA PCI devices in kernel config
- software suspend to disk using swsusp in kernel, but I had to go back to VESA driver for XFree86 or else it would hang on resume
- Orinoco gold wifi card using kernel PCMCIA support and wifi driver, and PCMCIA-CS & wireless-tools for configuration
- integrated ethernet with National Semiconductor DP8381x driver
- ACPI for battery status, haven't noticed much else useful from it though, haven't tested lid open/close messages yet

Unknown:
- iee1394 firewire (no devices to test with)
- integrated Broadcom 802.11g chipset has no Linux driver has far as I know

Let me know if you get this laptop and have any issues, maybe I ran into them too. Also, the hardware is similar to most HP Pavillion 4xxx models. It's identical to the HP Pavillion ze4560us, just a slightly different shell (which I liked better).

blackmax · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

Uffe: you can easily get your wifi G integrated card working using the windows driver for your card and a nifty utility called ndiswrapper (use the cvs version, and try the dell drivers for which there's a link at ndiswrapper page, the broadcom drivers I downloaded from compaq.com didn't work (and I though they were the same)). Right now I'm connected through a wireless connection on my Compaq Presario 2100 with the same wifi card you have.
Thank God I got everything working, well i haven't tried suspend yet... but 3D accel, the touchpad and wifi... all thanks to this forum!!

rmdl · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 24

I have a 2110 US with pretty much the exact same specs.

Athlon XP 2100, 512 Megs RAM, 60 GB drive, DVD/CD-RW drive, AGP 320 M

A friend of mine completed the stage 3I'm having the WORST time ever due to the system getting suspended because of being idle during bootstrapping (as seen here)

Uffe · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 14

That worked great, thanks for the tip about the Broadcom wifi, blackmax. That blue LED indicating my unused wifi was powered up was really starting to bug me. :>

Uffe · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 14

Sorry, I haven't experienced that problem with my 2195, rmdl. I don't think I've had any unrequested shutdowns, besides when on battery and the charge runs out. I built from Athlon stage 1 about a month ago.

Tormented-Soul · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:32 am Post subject:

Uffe · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 14

Which CPU are you using? I've only tested with this CPU:

Tormented-Soul · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:55 pm Post subject:

thanks for the reply...i found that patch yesterday for myself too

there was an 'addon', so called patched maxfid to get down to 500mhz instead of 1130...by the way, i'm running the same cpu on my laptop

but now, my network-card doesn't work anymore

i'm gonna to try the downgrade of my yesterday upgraded bios

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Tormented-Soul · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

*update*

2.6.6-rc2-bk1 now uses acpi frequency scaling for powernow-k7 ... worked out of the box...no more (insecure) patching needed

by the way, the module is the same (powernow-k7)

cya
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jcc103 · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 3

Hi,

How does one get access to the kernel sources? I checked my portage tree which I updated earlier this week and did not find it?

jcc

Tormented-Soul · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:08 am Post subject:

i take mine from kernel.org (the vanilla kernel) and i apply all patches by myself. and for the annoying portage-i-need-to-install-a-kernel-with-emerge-problem, i renamed a gentoo-sources ebuild to gentoo-sources-3333.ebuild and injected that, so portage stops bugging me with updates to kernel-sources

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damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

I have the ze4560us, and I am having some trouble getting the system time to be right. Has anyone else had any problems with this? If so what did you do to fix it? I checked the bios and the RTC seems to be keeping time just fine, but when I boot back up after the machine has been down for a while the system time shows the time it was at when I last shut it down. I have gentoo running on my desktop, and following the gentoo installation instructions seemed to work great for it but for this lappy I can't get the system time to do right. I would use ntp but since this is a lappy I do not always have internet connection when using it. I have tried just doing and emerge -U world, in hopes that it was a flaw in some software program that may have been fixed but that did nothing. I have upgraded my kernel twice to newer sources and that hasn't fixed it. I am using the mm-sources. I suppose there must be something in the kernel which is not set up right to read the RTC, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe if someone who has the ze4560 could send me their kernel config file I could compare them and figure out what I am missing. Thanks for any help!
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cwt137 · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:00 am Post subject:

This is how I got the right time:

look in /usr/share/zoneinfo and select your location/timezone file. For me, the correct one was /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles. Next, create a symbolic link from your correct location/timezone file to /etc/localtime. Here is my example:

damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

well that is what I did when I first installed and it did not work. Infact that is what I did when I installed on my desktop and it did work, but not on the lappy. This seems to have somthing to do with the date command, or hwclock. It isn't that I can't effect the rtc, but that when shutting down and rebooting, the hwclock script seems to be effing things up.
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cwt137 · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject:

also make sure if you have the other os (windows) that it is set on local time too instead of gmt or something

damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

I do not have the "other" os. But as far as the other os is concerned, windows will not want to let the RTC be in UTC which is the specified way to do it in Linux. If all you run is linux (like me) then you should keep the RTC in UTC and the System clock in Local time.
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AceOfAces_TS · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

The broadcom works with ndiswrapper if your still trying.

I have a 2108US. Basicaly the same computer with 2800+ and a 40GB hard drive.