Alan Dayley wrote:

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>On Monday 17 January 2005 05:53 pm, mike hoy wrote:
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>>Pluggers,
>>
>>I have a compaq r3000 presario P4 laptop with 512 mb of ram shared to
>>the ATI radeon video card.
>>I can't play dvd's. My error: Too Many Video Packets in the buffer. The
>>sound shuts off and the movie keeps playing.
>>The sound doesn't work right. It can't work with more than one
>>application. Ex: gaim and mplayer can't use the sound card at the same
>>time.
>>
>>Rather than try to fix this problem I would like to know if I ought to
>>trade this compaq  for a more linux friendly laptop or should I just
>>sell it and then buy a used laptop known to work well with linux?
>>
>>Anybody here have a slightly older laptop and may want to trade for this
>>p4 2.8 ghz machine?
>>or should i just stick it on ebay and be done with it?
>>
>>I'm at my wits end with this thing. Windows is the only thing that works
>>right on it. And that flat out pisses me off.
>>

Before you dump the damnable thing, you may want to try installing 
Simply Mepis. I have a HP ZE4325US laptop, probably close kindred to 
your Compaq, with similar blues. ACPI wouldn't work, PCMCIA wouldn't 
work, no power management, the battery would go dead in 45 minutes, no 
wireless, it was really disappointing. I tried several distros over the 
last year or so, including Mandrake, SuSE, and Knoppix, and none of them 
worked on this machine. Then I took it to an installfest and had Simply 
Mepis installed. Wow. With the 2.6.7 kernel, everything autodetected and 
configured properly, and everything (except the one-touch keys) worked 
 with no fiddling around, including the PCMCIA, ACPI and wireless. I now 
have the one-touch keys working also, but that is a somewhat involved 
manual fix.

>>
>>Just in case you're wondering why I bought this thing I bought it before
>>I ever really became involved with linux. Up til then I was only using
>>windoze at home. Had I just researched... oh live and learn.
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>Don't get rid of it.  At least, I wouldn't unless you can get most of your 
>money back out of it.  With a notebook, maybe you can actually get the value 
>back out.
>
>I did a google search of "compaq r3000 presario linux" and got lots of hits.  
>These look like the most promising.  I hope they help.  If not, sign up for 
>the InstallFest and get some help lined up in advance.
>
>Alan
>
>This page documents Debian on your model.  Maybe information there will help 
>anyway:
>http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/kisner/linux/compaq-r3000/
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>Similar model with Slack and Knoppix:
>http://www1.uop.edu/~khughes/presario-r3120us/
>
>For another similar model:
>http://www.pcxperience.com/WebGUI/index.pl/laptop/r3140us
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>A mailing list:
>http://lists.pcxperience.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
>
>Several links, some repeated from above, some new:
>http://tuxmobil.org/cpu_64bit.html
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>I think this one is linked in the page above but, hey, I repeat myself then:
>http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/compaqr3000z-fc3.php
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