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Compaq Presario C700
Submitted by Anonymous on 2008-01-29 11:13:11 This product has a rating of 4 out of 5 running under CentOS Comments: This entry is for a C714. - Intel Pentium Dual Core, 15.4" WXGA, WebCam, Atheros Wifi, RTL8139 LAN, Modem, Card Reader, HDA sound, Intel x3100 (965GM) graphics. I notice that C700 series come in a variety of CPU models and WiFi chipsets, etc... so your mileage may vary. Out of the box, CentOS 5.1 was able to recognise the graphcis card with Xorg's i810 driver. Unfortunately the display resolutions are the fixed VESA resolutions (1024x768 being the best). Previous versions of CentOS used the generic VESA driver. The RTL8139 LAN was recognised fine. The card reader was recognised as a USB card reader and worked out of the box. The same can be said about the built-in sound as it was recognised and configured automatically. Finally the CPU was brought up properly, 2 cores being seen by Linux. It works in 64 and 32 bit modes. To get the AR5006 WiFi, I had to compile NDISWRAPPER and use the corresponding Windows driver. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net The Madwifi http://madwifi.org driver as of 29/01/2008 did not work for me (Hal status 13). The WebCam worked after installing the Linux-UVC driver. http://linux-uvc.berlios.de I did not try the Intel drivers http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html nor the built-in modem. |