Re: Advice requested

On Monday 17 January 2005 05:53 pm, mike hoy wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

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/

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

A mailing list:
http://lists.pcxperience.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000

Several links, some repeated from above, some new:
http://tuxmobil.org/cpu_64bit.html

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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